The Need for a Regional Mechanism for Nuclear Security in South Asia

…regional frameworks which have the potential to be a starting point for dialogue on cross-border threats that could also pose a risk to nuclear sites—such as targeting transit of illicit…
Improve UN Civilian Capacity to Build Back Swiftly in the Aftermath of Conflict

…consideration of such innovations.12United Nations. Declaration of the Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the United Nations. Draft, July 3, 2020, 3. Accessed July 3, 2020. https://www.un.org/pga/74/wp-content/uploads/sites/99/2020/07/UN75-FINAL-DRAFT-DECLARATION.pdf. If adopted by…
Trialogue Live: The Expiration of New Start

…position on this issue. We are in quite a difficult position because there is nothing more to say from the Russian side. I think that Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs…
Blockchain in China

…“New Infrastructure to Drive Growth,” The State Council of The People’s Republic of China, 2020, https://english.www.gov.cn/policies/policywatch/202005/06/content_WS5eb20ecfc6d0b3f0e9497089.html. According to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the Chinese government has…
Reimagining Cyber Arms Control

…actors. As observed by one group of scholars, “The purpose of nonproliferation regimes includes: minimizing instability; increasing predictability in relations between potentially hostile states; pre-empting the development of new weapons;…
Research and Publications of The Hague Institute and The Stimson Center
…access to online content and the availability of requisite physical and technical infrastructure. Many countries in the Global South lag behind on both these factors, with significant implications for economic…
Discord and diplomacy: reviewing outcomes from the UN’s cyber working group

…July 2023, feel weightier. The main point of contention – the need for legally binding obligations – is one that underlies much of the UN’s history of addressing responsible state…
An Evolving Agenda for the Quad

…“Remarks by President Biden, Prime Minister Modi of India, Prime Minister Morrison of Australia, and Prime Minister Suga of Japan in the Virtual Quad Leaders Summit,” (speech, virtual, March 12, 2021), https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/12/remarks-by-president-biden-prime-minister-modi-of-india-prime-minister-morrison-of-australia-and-prime-minister-suga-of-japan-in-virtual-meeting-of-the-quad/. …