B.S. Prakash

B S Prakash was the Head of the UN Division in the Ministry of External Affairs and is currently India’s Consul General in San Francisco.

Publication

Universality, Multilateralism and Many-Lateralism

Does the changing nature of the international order in the 21st century influence the nature and forms of multilateralism? And if yes, how does it impact the United Nations, an institution at the apex of the multilateral process, but which in some crucial respects still reflects the international order of the mid-twentieth century? This is the question that this paper attempts to explore.