As global leaders gathered this week in New York to denounce each other and popularize Noam Chomsky, they ignored the issues that could actually help the U.N. become a far more effective institution in addressing global problems. One is Security Council reform, about which more later. Another is "the mandate gap," the huge disparity between what the Security Council resolves, with great fanfare, and what happens on the ground. See the following op-ed, which I published through Project Syndicate in a number of different papers around the world.