What Europe (NATO) and the UN’s failures signal for the future

What Europe (NATO) and the UN’s failures signal for the future

From The Machine | America Out Loud News by The Machine | America Out Loud News

April 26, 2026 · 57 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of NATO and the UN's failures on the future global order.

The Human Equation with Joe Pangaro – Taken together, these failures point to a deeper shift in the global order. The institutions created after World War II assumed that the major powers shared enough common interest to cooperate in preventing large-scale conflict. That assumption no longer holds. The world is entering a period of renewed great-power competition, and the cracks...

People in this episode

Host: Joe Pangaro

Topics covered

  • global order
  • great-power competition
  • NATO
  • UN failures
  • post-World War II institutions

Keywords

  • NATO
  • UN
  • global order
  • great-power competition
  • World War II
  • international relations

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Organizations: NATO, UN

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