TRANSCRIPT – Inside High-Stakes Negotiations: A Conversation with Hostage Negotiator Mickey Bergman on Freeing Captured Americans Abroad
…It worked because the meeting that was supposed to be a five-minute pull aside ended up being a 45-minute, one on one between the very personal, that resulted with the…
Online UN75 Regional Dialogue for the Americas

…REQUEST FORM If your request is approved, then you will receive an invitation from the organizers to join the Google group for the online discussion that you selected. Languages We…
Online UN 75 Regional Dialogue for Africa

…approved, then you will receive an invitation from the organizers to join the Google group for the online discussion that you selected. Format & Sessions The online dialogue will take…
News Roundup for November 8, 2019
…Defense One – Live! Defense One Outlook 2020; Doomsday plane drops a mission; Measuring defense civilians’ readiness; Google wants more defense work; And a bit more. [by Ben Watson and Bradley…
Repairing the Diplomatic Threat Reduction Enterprise

…to ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention. If you google ACDA now, the first entry that pops up is the American Choral Directors Association. The arms control brand, which made a…
Five Myths about Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
…animals have become a cause celebre, with luminaries such as Hillary Clinton, the prince of Wales and basketball star Yao Ming working to save them. Today, according to the World…
Khamenei’s Eclipse: Absolute Rule Crumbles into Paralysis and Infighting in Iran

…impeached moderate ministers such as Economy Minister Abdolnaser Hemati, the IRGC has accused reformists of treason, and the parliament has become a den of mutual denunciations. Post-12-day war recriminations have…
Accelerating Change But Not Necessarily an Inflection Point

…of times it is mentioned in books, according to Google’s Ngram viewer. Certainly, immense changes are underway in many low- and middle-income countries. The International Futures tool, a forecasting model…