1st Mekong-US Partnership Track 1.5 Policy Dialogue
…areas and communities. Finance ministries, foreign ministries, other relevant line agencies, the private sector, and development partners should collaborate to increase both soft and hard infrastructure for COVID-19 vaccination rollout….
Stimson Recognized at the United Nations 2023 Peacekeeping Ministerial
…issue, and best practices to support better gender-responsive leadership”. The Assistant Minister for Defence of Australia, the Honorable Matt Thistlethwaite MP, highlighted the work underway in partnership with the UN…
Chinese Public Opinion: Shaping China’s Foreign Policy, or Shaped by It?
…China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Xinhua News Agency jointly decide the content and tone of news reports to make sure they are in line with China’s official…
Technological Change and the UN Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes
…The New York Times, May 19, 2022, sec. Business, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/business/twitter-content-moderation.html; Neil Murphy and Paul Carey, “Facebook Announces Changes to Content Moderation,” The National, February 25, 2021, sec. World, https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/facebook-announces-changes-to-content-moderation-1.1173392; Simon…
Monitoring Provisions of the Iran Agreement
…for a long-term IAEA presence, including issuing long-term visas, as well as providing proper working space at nuclear sites and, with best efforts, at locations near nuclear sites in Iran…
Pakistan’s Fatiguing Interest in the IMF Reform Program
…of the current Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif– now heads Pakistan’s financial management. Dar finished a five-year-long exile to be re-appointed Pakistan’s Finance Minister. The experienced chartered accountant has held this…
Assumption Testing: Airpower is inherently offensive
…hit, it could still suffer catastrophic failure from the blast as well as fragment damage.46 Note: Benjamin S. Lambeth, Kosovo and the Continuing SEAD Challenge (Washington, DC: RAND, 2002), 12–14. …
Pezeshkian Marks a Rough Anniversary as Iran Faces Relentless Pressures
…— proved both aspirational and contentious. The concept, initially framed as a “government of national unity,” sought to include reformists, moderates, conservatives, and Sunni minorities in governance. His cabinet appointments…