Skip to content

From the archives

Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Edward C. Luck

Edward C. Luck is Director of the Center on International Organization and Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His most recent book is The UN Security Council: Practice and Promise (Routledge, 2006).

Articles by
Edward C. Luck

Iraq and the Future of the United Nations

Is the 2003 split in the Security Council leading to the disintegration of a multilateral world order? April 2007
This is an important and timely book. Its unvarnished narrative of the world’s efforts over a quarter century to corral and tame an unpredictable and sometimes aggressive Iraq does not make for easy or light reading. No Hollywood endings here. But it is essential reading for anyone either perplexed about how we got into this mess or searching for a quick and painless international…