The InterDependent
Original Reporting on the United Nations
A UNA-USA Publication
 The InterDependent, UNA's venerable flagship magazine, has migrated from print to the Internet to provide the best articles on the United Nations for our readers.
In the new ID, designed by the Thomas Alan agency in Chicago and financed partly by Kyung Hee University in Seoul, we are pairing the highest value of online publications -- speedy delivery, colorful graphics, clean design -- with the old-fashioned virtues of print -- in-depth articles on a range of topics.
At www.theinterdependent.com, you will find a blog – BC on the UN -- by Barbara Crossette, who brings her formidable knowledge of foreign affairs and the UN byways to the ID. Crossette, a longtime contributor to the print form of the ID and its online sister publication, the World Bulletin, is a UN correspondent for The Nation and a former correspondent for The New York Times. Count on reading her provocative and insightful posts in her blog, situated at the top of the home page.
Our second blog, ICC Memo, focuses on the ever-unfolding dramas at the International Criminal Court. The blog is generated from UNA’s own American Nongovernmental Coalition for the ICC, or AMICC, which is run by John Washburn. His long career in policy and international justice included a stint as a director in the executive office of the UN. Matthew Heaphy, deputy convener for AMICC, worked at the UN Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
In Views, the ID’s opinion section, you’ll find an exclusive first-person essay by Stephen Schlesinger, whose book, “Act of Creation,” about the founding of the UN, is being turned into a PBS documentary. In doing research for the film, Schlesinger stumbled on actual voices of Harold Stassen and Alger Hiss reminiscing about their roles at the first UN conference in San Francisco, tapes that have never been broadcast before.
We also offer a book review in Book Corner. In the debut issue, Warren Hoge, a former New York Times UN bureau chief, reviews Mark Mazower's “No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations.”
The new ID keeps alive the best of the print ID, covering UN news from the Secretariat to the UN agencies to work in the field – articles you won’t find anywhere else, like a look at the UN's Peaceful Uses of Outer Space agency; how the UN Development Program is helping to alleviate the tension in the Niger Delta through vocational training; an interview with Walter Kälin, the UN’s person in charge of protecting the rights of the internally displaced; and how Unesco tracks dying languages.
Last but not least, the ID’s Multimedia section offers a new UNA video taking a fresh look, through original interviews and UNTV footage, on beleaguered Somalia. Can it be saved?
Readers can stay abreast of new ID features through RSS feeds and e-mail alerts, while UNA's World Bulletin will continue its online schedule, featuring UNA news and delivered next by e-mail to your in-boxes on Aug. 4.
Both the new InterDependent and the World Bulletin are brought to you by the Publications Department of UNA-USA, the oldest grass-roots organization in the US dedicated to linking smart Americans to the work of the UN.
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