During this meeting, discussion focused on the current security and humanitarian situation, recent conflict dynamics, the conditions faced by journalists and civil society activists, and the impact on Cameroon’s women and girls
Panelists: Asfandyar Mir, Senior Expert, Asia Center, USIPElizabeth Threlkeld, Senior Fellow and Director, South Asia Program, Stimson Center Moderator: Akriti Vasudeva, Research Analyst, South Asia Program, Stimson Center
Featured Speakers Katie Dock, author of and presenting research and recommendations from the new report “Unfinished Business: NATO’s Protection of Civilians Policy and the Way Forward” Katie Dock is a Research Assistant with the Transforming Conflict …
Featured Speakers Daryl Johnson, Owner, DT Analytics, a private consulting firm for law enforcement.Dr. Andrey Kurth Cronin, Founding Director, Center for Security, Innovation and New Technology at American University, and Professor, American Universit …
Published February 2, 2021 / Held January 26, 2021
Featured Speakers Ambassador Ahn Ho-Young, President, University of North Korean Studies and former ROK Ambassador to the United States (2013-2017)Dr. Lee Sook Jong, Professor, Graduate School of Governance at Sungkyunkwan University and Director, East …
Published December 17, 2020 / Held December 17, 2020
The webinar was a closed-door, invitation-only program for congressional staffers. The panelists offered a combination of senior-level US government experience and analytical expertise of contemporary policy issues surrounding oversight of US counterte …
Published December 16, 2020 / Held December 9, 2020
The closed-door, invitation-only workshop was held across four days. Sessions included presentations, discussions, and breakout groups on key issues related to the protection of civilians in future NATO operations. Topics included NATO’s progress to da …
Published December 14, 2020 / Held December 14, 2020
The featured speakers offered a combination of senior-level US government experience and analytical expertise and provided commentary on ways to manage and mitigate nuclear risks with North Korea in lieu of final and fully verified denuclearization. In …
Published September 24, 2020 / Held September 22, 2020
The current COVID-19 crisis demonstrates that the United States must remain vigilant against low-probability, high-consequence threats. Every president for nearly three decades has recognized the disastrous consequences that would result if dangerous n …
Published September 18, 2020 / Held September 18, 2020
Based on Gen. (Ret.) Scaparrotti’s extensive experience and expertise, the webinar offered informed commentary and engaged audience members on the importance of the US relationship with the Korean Peninsula. Among a broad range of topics, the discussio …
Published September 9, 2020 / Held September 8, 2020
The featured speaker had extensive experience serving in and writing about US and US-ROK bilateral military command structures in South Korea. His analysis of the multiple theater-level commands on the Korean Peninsula is considered required reading fo …
Published September 9, 2020 / Held September 4, 2020
In a context of worsening US-China relations amidst COVID-19 and the broader designation of China as a strategic competitor, the Stimson Center’s Security for a New Century (SNC) and 38 North Programs brought together a panel of experts to discuss US I …
Due to COVID-19 and its fallout, policymakers are confronted with newly emergent problems alongside preexisting ones. Nowhere is this more evident than on the Korean Peninsula. As the pandemic has spread, US-DPRK talks remain stalled, inter-Korean rela …
Staff asked about how sanctions might be further refined to be more effective, what role the US might play in assisting North Korea’s effort to respond to COVID-19 to the extent possible, and how sanctions affect access to the country for humanitarian …
The discussion opened with a summary of the workshop, which covered alternative futures to the alliance and drew on in-depth discussions with high-level ROK diplomatic and military officials on topics such as the significance of the alliance as it rela …
Published February 11, 2020 / Held February 11, 2020
The discussion opened with an exploration of the differences in negotiating approaches of the United States and North Korea and why, at this time, the United States can’t go back to the maximum pressure campaign or just add more sanctions; what is nece …
Published December 13, 2019 / Held December 13, 2019
While the current New START treaty has many shortcomings, it was argued that, at a minimum, the treaty should be extended to buy time for new negotiations. Staffers asked whether China’s absence from New Start is a valid reason for letting the treaty l …
Published December 3, 2019 / Held December 3, 2019
The conversation opened with a discussion of the main categories of arms sales, the primary legislative vehicles for these sales, and how provision of these goods and services to foreign partners can further U.S. national security interests. Staf …
Published November 6, 2019 / Held November 9, 2019
The conversation kicked off with a discussion of how the breakdown in talks likely signals internal debate in North Korea about the desirability of denuclearization as well as growing North Korean impatience with South Korea’s inaction vis-a-vis inter- …
Published October 29, 2019 / Held October 29, 2019
Staff asked a range of questions about areas for additional leverage over DPRK, especially sanctions, and the impact on readiness of suspending the joint US-ROK military exercises. Concerns were raised about North Korea’s current missile capabilities, …
Published October 24, 2019 / Held October 24, 2019
Middle income countries collectively represent an approximately $35 trillion marketplace. By 2030, this could reach $50 trillion.[1] Some nations are acting to seize those opportunities, recognizing that the potential payoff merits a massive political …
Last week was a Trifecta in terms of the U.S. undermining friendships. First there was the pullout from UNESCO over old grips long resolved. (Disclosure, I was once a Senior Advisor in that entity.) Next was President Trump’s castigating of poor Puerto …
RSVP HERE The Stimson Center and United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA) are hosting a discussion with Alanna O’Malley, author of the forthcoming book, The Diplomacy of Decolonisation, America, Britain and the United Nati …
Human Development and Global Institutions: Evolution, Impact, Reform details how human development faces new risks and threats, caused by political, economic, social, and environmental forces which are highlighted in a series of engaging case studies o …
Published September 28, 2017 / Held September 11, 2017
Over the past two decades there have been significant shifts in international economic dynamics and a gradual restructuring of global political relationships and collaborations. Emerging powers such as China, India, Brazil, and Arab Gulf states have be …
Over time, the United States and other wealthy governments have designed and operated institutions and bilateral programs to engage effectively the extreme ends of the global wealth spectrum. From the OECD to the G7, wealthy governments routinely gathe …
The latest round of Geneva-based intra-Syrian peace talks opened on Tuesday with little hope for a breakthrough, because the Syrian regime and the opposition begin at an impasse over whether President Bashar al-Assad might be deposed while his grip on …
The Global Advisory Council is a group of leading global experts — from government, civil society, and the private sector — developing ideas for more constructive relations between wealthy nations and the world’s Middle Income Countries. The Global Adv …
