Featured Speakers Dr. Richard Ponzio, Director, Global Governance, Justice and Security Program and Senior Fellow, Stimson. Previously, he directed the Global Governance Program at The Hague Institute for Global Justice. Ms. Loraine Rickard-M …
Published November 23, 2021 / Held December 3, 2021
Opening Remarks H.E. Ambassador Ishikane, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations Featured Speakers Dr. David Bray, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center and Atlantic Council. Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High R …
Published November 22, 2021 / Held December 2, 2021
During his recent testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, the newly minted US Secretary of Defense, Gen. Lloyd Austin, stated that the Biden Administration aims to “further operationalise” India’s Major Defense Partner status and co …
STEP examines the intersection of WMD non-proliferation and trade by engaging partner countries with critical global trade ecosystems in identifying, analyzing, and securing supply chains involving “dualuse” chemical / biological / radiological / nuclear (CBRN) materials.
Questions addressed in the podcast: Q1: Can you outline the International Nuclear Nonproliferation regime and what the history is behind it? Q2: After WW2, what was India’s position when they did not sign the NPT or CTBT? Q3: How did the international …
Largely the result of European space and defense manufacturer design outs, the “U.S. International Trade in Arms Regulations-free” movement began in the 1990s. Since that time, the ITAR-free movement has diffused into other industry sectors and regions …
After fourteen years of outreach on United Nations Security Council resolution 1540, most countries understand their obligations under the resolution. For most states, whether they act upon it depends on (a) political willingness to prioritize such exp …
For Immediate Release August 14, 2018 Contact: Audel Shokohzadeh, [email protected], 202-478-3419 Washington, DC — The Stimson Center welcomes Seema Gahlaut as a Senior Fellow with the Center’s Trade, Technology, and Security program. The program exam …
U.S. trade policy with the 106 Middle Income Countries (MICs) is not moving ahead and the policies of bilateralism are not being instituted. There are a number of steps to promote U.S. trade with MICs that should be undertaken urgently in order for U.S …
Leading voices in international development will be joining the Stimson Center for a roundtable to discuss and identify opportunities, challenges, and policy recommendations for U.S. engagement with “legacy countries” – middle income countries where th …
For Immediate Release Contact: Jim Baird, [email protected]; 202.478.3413 The Stimson Center announced today that General Electric’s Kevin Cuddy will serve as the Center’s inaugural Trade, Technology and Security Fellow. The Center’s year-long Tr …
The year just concluded consisted largely of bark rather than bite as far as trade is concerned. Although the president did pull out of TPP, other threats, including tariffs on Germany, China or Mexico, and pulling out of the WTO, KORUS and NAFTA, rema …
I had planned this week to make some profound comments reflecting on the year past, but I can’t let a WTO Ministerial conference go by without saying a word or two about it. So, profundity will have to wait a bit. The most obvious thing to say about th …
One of my favorite TV shows a few years ago was Weeds, which featured the more or less dysfunctional Botwin family whose widowed mother of two teenage boys had taken to selling marijuana in her suburban neighborhood as a way to make ends meet after the …
By William Reinsch For someone who labored in the weeds of trade policy for 40 years and who reads about it in the newspaper business section, having it now front page above the fold, along with numerous specialized publications devoted to it, is a bit …
NAFTA is back in the news as negotiations were held in Mexico City last week. As expected, there were no major breakthroughs, and with none expected in December, it is clear governments are pushing serious talks into 2018 and possibly later as we appro …
The president’s trip to Asia provided an opportunity to lay out a coherent explanation of his trade policy. Intrepid reporter Doug Palmer summarized that in a Politico piece on November 10: “President Donald Trump’s tough speech on trade today heralds …
For Immediate Release November 16, 2017 Contact: Jim Baird; 202.478.3413; [email protected] Nate Olson, Director of the Stimson Center’s Trade21 program, released video analyzing Trump’s recent trip to Asia and what it means for U …
I don’t usually do commercials in these weekly pieces, but something important happened a few weeks ago that deserves a shout-out — the October 20 launch of the U.S. Global Value Chain Coalition. Composed primarily of retailers like Macy’s and Ta …