A Visit to the Site of France’s Future High-Level Waste Repository
…investigate waste disposal concepts and potential geological repository sites. They are pivotal steps within the development of deep geological repositories. What is a Deep Geological Repository (DGR)? Decades of research…
The Changing Middle East: Updating the Security Agenda
…concrete contingencies: securing Syria’s chemical and biological sites, providing security and basic services for the tens of thousands of new refugees and internally displaced, attempting to slow the flow of…
James McKeon’s primer on Scotland’s independence referendum published in World Post
…of the debate, let us look at the four main points of contention leading some to vote “yes” for independence and others to vote “no.” As you will see, both…
EU Defense: This Time Might Be Different
…Leyen often finds herself at odds with Trump’s closest European supporters — Hungarian President Viktor Orban and Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni. Nonetheless, the two have much in common when…
Iran Faces a Mountain of Unresolved Domestic Problems
…minister Ahmad Vahidi, the Tehran prosecutor filed a legal case against the newspaper for disclosure of confidential documents. However, the Interior Ministry has not denied the contents of the document….
Regional Consequences of the Syrian Conflict on Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq
…toward a political solution in Syria from the international community is alarming to Jordan, and that is the motive behind its 2021 initiative. Mini-ISIS State: Iraqis in ISIS Prisons and…
Advancing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Farsi Version)
…to integrate the content of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into a country’s policy and legal system. Participants met for two sessions over the course of…
Stimson report cited in International Business Times on India and Pakistan’s fight over water
…that divides these longtime enemies is not necessarily nuclear arms nor territorial disputes over Kashmir nor a hundred other contentious subjects — rather, the dominant overriding conflict between India and…