There is little sweat in singling out the usual suspects in the work of others. One can always play the polite, yet petty nit-picker and identify holes of reasoning or important issues which were missed. This strategy makes easy targets of most texts, not infrequently doing injustice to the respective author’s intentions. More daring options pose the risk of exposing flanks of one’s own. The subject of this volume seems to invite daring endeavours of the latter sort. On this route, one may purport that the object of critique, not going far enough, falls short of its own ambitions. Moreover, one could question underlying conceptions, methodologies, approaches and biases, shoehorning in one’s own. An even more demanding task appears to be that of productive critique, of supplementing instead of subtracting. Pick your battlegrounds. Commenting on a grounded, well-balanced and measured critique of the UN institution’s recent work, of which Eibe Riedel used to be an active member, precipitates those more substantive break-out strategies if one does not want to parallel too closely the contribution one is tasked to add to.