Protection of Civilians in the Context of Peace Operations: New York Dialogues
…Ai Kihara-Hunt, The Future of Peacekeeping, New Models and Related Capabilities, October 2024, available here: https://peacekeeping.un.org/sites/default/files/future_of_peacekeeping_report_rev30jan_1.pdf. Participants were encouraged throughout the two dialogues to share their reflections on the successes…
The Nuclear Taboo, Deterrence, And Institutional Relationships
…minimize the role of a nuclear taboo since it would constrain the U.S. deterrent. While mutual deterrence—and the nuclear taboo—became more accepted in much of the U.S. government after the…
Holding on to the One Child Policy: China’s Great Demographic Trade-Off
…bureaucratic inertia? And was Beijing’s decision a smart one? By Richard Cincotta – Demographers in China and abroad were surprised when, after weeks of contentious inter-agency debate in March,…
Michael Krepon column in Arms Control Wonk on Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Narendra Modi
The recent trips to the United States by Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Narendra Modi provide ample evidence of India’s and Pakistan’s divergent trajectories. Nawaz arrived with no fanfare, a…
A Step-by-Step Warhead Data Exchange Methodology to Support an Arms Control Treaty Limiting Warheads
…technologies to identify the content of the objects, the concept would track and account for the objects the same way as they are tracked by US and Russian inventory management…
New Era for International Health Law? Health Security vs. Equity
…good of surveillance should trump an individual country’s ownership. After four years of contentious debate, WHO Member States have not achieved a consensus on the sharing of influenza viruses and…
Great Powers Have Lost the Plot: The Perils of a Split-Screen World
…coexistence may depend on how current areas of contention—Middle East, Taiwan, and Ukraine—play out. But regardless of how the great power game evolves, how to attain the necessary resources and…
South Korea’s Formal Membership in the Quad Plus: A Bridge Too Far?
…of pressing issues facing the Indo-Pacific. Absent from the summit but alluded to in the joint statement was the Quad’s broader network of “like-minded partners,” termed the “Quad Plus.” In…