The world needs a UN 3.0. The extent and severity of global crises are such that business as usual provides no solution. The United Nations as Leviathan describes the necessary next version of the United Nations. It is a confident, competent, and independent organisation that incorporates the world of business and global civil society as well as governments.
It will certainly not have a monopoly on the use of force, but it will lead the international community through a mix of the principle of subsidiarity placing it at the apex, the application of the process of certification whereby thousands of entities are engaged in problem-solving, and the benefit of legitimacy earned through performance. The result will allow the UN to tackle the climate crisis, broaden the protection of democracy and human rights, govern globalisation, and be better prepared for the next pandemic.

Roland is currently Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the United Nations and Global Policy Master of Arts program at Rutgers University, where he has been since 2015. He joined Australia's foreign service in 1975 and served in Paris, Rangoon, Manila and as Ambassador to Laos from 1994 to 1997, before being appointed Assistant Secretary for International Organisations in Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1997. He was the founding Director of the Australian National University's Centre for Democratic Institutions from 1998 to 2005. He was a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in 2005, and then taught in the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies of the Australian Defence College. He was appointed as head of the United Nations Democracy Fund from 2007 to 2014, and concurrently as Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Office for Partnerships from 2010 to 2014.