How to Reform the UN Security Council After Russia Invading Ukraine

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Ori Friedman: The UN Security Council was not designed to turn its sights inward on its own members. He says the body's most vulnerable is when a permanent member decides to be an aggressor and wields it in a way that becomes totally ineffectual as a means of stopping war. In some ways, this is a feature, not a bug of the Security Council; we saw that all too vividly in the war in Ukraine," he says.

The war in Ukraine has demonstrated just how dysfunctional the United Nations is. Uri Friedman, managing editor at the Atlantic Council, explains how to fix it.

This episode was produced by Jillian Weinberger, fact-checked by Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Noel King, who also hosted.

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