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In this week’s Inside Geneva episode, UN correspondents in Geneva and New York look back at 2024. 

Dorian Burkhalter, journalist, SWI swissinfo.ch: ‘Wars everywhere, climate change, deepening inequalities, AI…it’s just threats everywhere. But it just seems like the more global our problems are becoming, the weaker the UN is also becoming.’ 

But is the biggest event of the year the US election? 

Nick Cumming-Bruce, contributor, New York Times: ‘It’s hard to top the US election because it’s already dominating the conversation on everything else that we’ve covered in 2024.’ 

What could an isolationist America first strategy mean for the UN, and for the multilateral system? 

Dawn Clancy, UN correspondent, New York: ‘Pulling out of the Paris Agreement, or the WHO, threatening to cut funding, the US is the biggest funder of the UN, billions of dollars. So it’s just going to be chaos and no leadership.’ 

Are we on the verge of a new world order, without the guardrails of international law, or the Geneva Conventions?  

Imogen Foulkes, host, Inside Geneva: ‘The world is changing, while I’m watching, in terms of our fundamental principles, the world is changing while I’m watching, and for a while I didn’t even quite notice it.’ 

 Join us on Inside Geneva for an in-depth discussion of 2024, and some predictions for 2025. 

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Host: Imogen Foulkes
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