The VPN Epidemic in Iran: A Digital Plague Amid Global Isolation
…have turned the entire country into a digital minefield in which connecting to the world feels and can be perilous. Free and insecure VPNs can transform from lifelines into digital…
First Formal Arms Trade Treaty Preparatory Meeting held in Port of Spain, Trinidad
…informal meeting will be held in Vienna, Austria on April 20-21 with plans to organize working groups on the most contentious issues. The Trinidad meeting produced a draft procedural report,…
Raisi’s Death Unsettles Iran but Opens a Window for De-Escalation
…an inflection point. Given the enormous popular discontent in Iran and uncertainty now even among the regime’s base, a window may be opening to influence what comes next. The U.S….
Beyond Cairo: Prospects for change in the Middle East
…and socio-economic pressures cannot, on their own, explain the success of mass movements in Tunisia and Egypt. What was also needed to translate discontent into popular mobilization was a set…
Fulfilling the Promise of Protection: Charting a Course for Policymakers and Advocates
…to ensure that critical UN products and deliberations on protection retain the quality content necessary to ensure their effectiveness. To do this, the partners have created a handbook, entitled “Fulfilling…
The Arab World’s First Soft Revolution?
By Ellen Laipson – A spontaneous, massive uprising of discontent in the normally serene Mediterranean country of Tunisia could signal a turning point in the Arab world – the slow…
The Importance of Transparency for Modern Think Tanks
By Brian Finlay: Amidst the most contentious, high-stakes, and mean-spirited campaign for U.S. president in decades, it is difficult to overstate the level of political partisanship that has enveloped American…
Great Power Competition and Green Protectionism
…“CGS Mandate,” paper presented by the Council for Geoscience at Northwest Provincial Mining and Energy Investment Conference, Rustenberg, South Africa, January 2022. https://www.dmre.gov.za/Portals/0/Energy_Website/files/Mining/MiningInvestmentConference/Mining-and-Energy-Investment-Conference-Council-for-Geoscience.pdf. This situation raises concerns about compliance with…