COVID-19 and multilateral governance at the United Nations between risk-prevention, procedural adaptation and feeble response / Zoom Out
The United Nations principal political organs and the universal pandemic: How to meet, negotiate and deliberate under ‘new, extraordinary and exceptional circumstances’?
1. Introduction In a United Nations setting that was quite disoriented by the unprecedented situation created by a declared universal pandemic, in mid-March 2020 the UN Headquarters were shut down and nobody, including UN officers and delegates, was allowed to enter the New York premises of the Organization. It took some days to single out...