TRANSCRIPT – Inside High-Stakes Negotiations: A Conversation with Hostage Negotiator Mickey Bergman on Freeing Captured Americans Abroad
…fishermen, farmers of water and food, insecurity challenges to their prosperity. It may mean walking the holes of the UN, or boardrooms in Silicon Valley, or it may mean working…
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
…not reduce threats unless the United States also repairs and modernizes non-military means of threat reduction. Investing in one without the other is a poor investment strategy. Nuclear weapons deter…
Five Myths about Illegal Wildlife Trafficking
…aerial vehicles to combat poaching. In 2012, Google gave the World Wildlife Fund a $5 million grant to use drones and other technologies in Asia and Africa. The novelty of drones draws…
Khamenei’s Eclipse: Absolute Rule Crumbles into Paralysis and Infighting in Iran
…of terrorism financing and money laundering, languish unsigned in Khamenei’s office. Meanwhile inflation soared to 49% in September 2025, the rial plummeted below 1,000,000 to the dollar, and water shortages…
Accelerating Change But Not Necessarily an Inflection Point
…point” to have any meaning, not all these assessments could have been correct. “Inflection” refers to a change in the concavity of a curve. Imagine an S-curve. The inflection point…