U.S. President Donald Trump is hellbent on engagement with Russia, so engagement is going to continue to occur. The question is at what level and on what topics that engagement will be. Read the full article here
The unraveling of the last democratic institution in Venezuela came with the recent fraudulent election of a new constituent assembly whose members include the wife and son of President Nicolas Maduro and cronies of his predecessor, Hugo Chávez. This i …
By Allen Moore Just six days before the stunning election of Donald Trump as 45th President of the United States, an odd discovery was made near a remote Alaskan village: two full grown male moose were found frozen in several feet of water with th …
The Syrian civil war continues to highlight one of the most tragic dimensions of warfare: using food as a weapon. More than 80 percent of deliveries of food and humanitarian aid to Aleppo were blocked as of the end of September by Syrian …
It’s good for the commonwealth to Greenland accede to the international conventions. It says senior Cindy Vestergaard from the Danish Institute for International Studies. – It is a step forward for Greenland that they are now in the same conventio …
By Brian Finlay and Cameron Trainer: Two years ago this month, the international community watched in dismay as Ebola ran rampant throughout West Africa. Although the earliest reported cases had occurred six months earlier, prophylactic trea …
Q: Michel Temer was sworn in as Brazil’s president on Aug. 31, replacing ousted President Dilma Rousseff. How will the change in government, which puts Temer in power until 2018, affect Brazil’s struggling energy sector? Will the Temer administration b …
In the assessment community in Washington September 1 (Reporter Yu Donghui) to be held in Hangzhou, “Xi Olympic” could refer to the Taiwan issue, but the United States in the Taiwan Strait issue most experts do not believe this will be the key topics o …
Despite being legally obligated to an act that deters exploitation of children, US President Barack Obama has allowed South Sudan to continue recruiting child soldiers, writes Azad Essa. Child soldiers are supposed to have been relegated to a …
The international community labored for years to conceptualize a new global development agenda to succeed the famed Millennium Development Goals. Last September, that work came to fruition as the 193 Member States of the United Nations a …
The international community labored for years to conceptualize a new global development agenda to succeed the famed Millennium Development Goals. Last September, that work came to fruition as the 193 Member States of the United Nations a …
As the world closed the books on the Millenium Development Goals last year (MDGs), there was much to celebrate. Remarkably, the international community cut extreme poverty in half, 90 percent of countries have more women in parliament since 1995, and 2 …
For U.S. exporters already dealing with multiple sets of regulations, duties and tariffs across the globe, the post-Brexit world is a mess that will take years to sort out. In the decades since the European Union was created, American exporters have, w …
A new two-way trade deal between the U.S. and one of its oldest allies could rise from the ashes of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union and the already-foundering EU-U.S. talks. President Barack Obama reassured the world Friday that …
In light of the U.K.‘s vote to leave the EU, experts from the nonpartisan Stimson Center released the following statements and are available for comment on the implications that the Brexit vote could have on trade — including the Transatlantic Trade an …
A key component of post-conflict reconstruction is inclusive and equitable economic development. In the post-Cold War era, Western donors have promoted the liberal peacebuilding model that emphasises democratisation and marketisation to …
Det var sloganet for en af de mest succesrige danske græsrodsbevægelser op gennem 1970’erne og 1980’erne. Siden da har det været småt med de atomkritiske demonstrationer i gaderne. Næsten alle Folketingets partier er stærke modstandere af kernekraft, o …
The correct legal categorization of the conflict ( keeping in view, the Law of Armed Conflict) with AlQaeda is not obvious. It is plainly not a civil war or other ‘ internal’ armed conflict, such as the conflicts to which Additional Protocol II paradig …
Thirty years ago, on April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded, contaminating vast swaths of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia as well as several European countries. Read the full article here.
From the standpoint of security, globalization has made the world a far less safe and predictable place. Yet the forces that have driven the darker side of globalization have also yielded heretofore unimagined technological, economic, and development o …
By Rose Morrissy: Recent terror attacks in France, Belgium, Turkey, and beyond, highlight the urgent need to prevent nuclear materials from falling into the wrong hands — and to protect nuclear facilities. Concern was heightened with recent repor …
By Melissa Hersh and Michael Hopmeier: It’s no surprise that the proliferation of commercial drones operating in United States has spawned interest in technologies to counter such drones when they pose a threat. What’s not well und …
-snip- Debra Decker, Senior Advisor at The Stimson Center. She will be presenting at the Nuclear Security Summit today. She joins The Takeaway to discuss if the world would indeed be safer if more states like South Korea and Japan developed bombs …
Last month, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) decided to widen its definition of official development assistance to include certain security and defense costs, including measures to prevent violent extremism and provide l …
Trade network transparency entails two dimensions of global commerce: business relationships and chain of custody. Historically, most security programs, including those focused on nonproliferation, have focused on ensuring a proper chain of custody – t …
By Nate Olson: It is a bitter irony that globalization has actually made much of trade and investment activity less transparent. The scale and technological sophistication of global value chains, along with their reach across multiple legal juris …
By Debra Decker: With presidential candidates touting their respective visions for America, it is critical to consider what makes for a good national security vision. A good national security vision not only has to reflect what is desirable but a …
By Melissa Hersh: We already knew before the latest Ebola epidemic in West Africa that emergency planners should plan for how communities and individuals will act as opposed to how we want them to act. The international community steadfastly clun …
The Caribbean-Central American Action (CCAA) and the Stimson Center invite you for a special event, “A Conversation on the Economy, Trade and Security in the Caribbean.” This session will be an opportunity to engage in a dialogue on the …