The InterDependent

The InterDependent, founded in 1973 by Fred Eckhard, an editor at UNA-USA, was a print magazine that kept the members of our grass-roots organization, UNA-USA, in touch with the comings and goings of that vital but often bewildering international organization, the United Nations. Today, theinterdependent.com, making its online debut on July 21, 2010, continues that tradition.

In fact, no other media organization -- online, print, nonprofit or commercial -- has ever fully devoted itself to the issues that The InterDependent has always covered. We stand proud in a niche that we have created, pouring out articles on the UN for more than 40 years. From the beginning, the magazine took on the major issues at the world body while closely following important matters in the global community.

For example, The ID, as we call it, has provided readers -- UNA members and the UN community -- with such exclusive interviews as those with former Secretary-General Kofi Annan and current Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Other exclusives featured an interview with the Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello -- mere weeks before he was killed in a suicide bombing attack at the UN headquarters in Iraq. The ID also featured interviews with Ted Turner, Hans Blix, Richard C. Holbrooke, Senator Richard Lugar and Pope John Paul IV. Its last print issue, Fall 2009, profiled Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN.

We hope you continue to enjoy avid reading in The ID in its new iteration, and we welcome your thoughts and views, which you can send to interdependent@unausa.org or publications@unausa.org.

We encourage you to visit UNA-USA's main Web site, www.unausa.org, to learn about all the incredible activities of the organization, from running Global Classrooms, a Model UN program, to providing policy and advocacy information to our 12,000 members nationwide and the 120 chapters and divisions. UNA is a nonprofit organization that supports the work of the UN and encourages civic participation in social and economic issues affecting all Americans and abroad. Founded by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1943, with the establishment of the American Association for the United Nations, it merged with the US Committee for the United Nations in 1964, creating UNA-USA. More recently, it is about to be allied with the United Nations Foundation.

Now is the time to join UNA as it moves into a new relationship with the United Nations Foundation and strengthens its work on connecting the American public to the UN.