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Cutting UN peacekeeping operations: What will it say about America?

  • Written by Dennis Jett, Professor of International Relations, Pennsylvania State University

In a recent speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, the American ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, made clear the Trump administration wants to slash U.S. funds to the U.N., including support for peacekeeping. Ambassador Haley also asserted that “The United States is the moral conscience of the world.”

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