The VPN Epidemic in Iran: A Digital Plague Amid Global Isolation
…children. The NIN is designed to offer various domestic services such as e-government, banking, and education while filtering and blocking international content deemed undesirable by the regime. This system forces…
First Formal Arms Trade Treaty Preparatory Meeting held in Port of Spain, Trinidad
…the question of participation in the CSP. Governments expressed wide-ranging opinions for participation. While some governments wanted a differentiated role for civil society — meaning that those supporting the object…
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
This article was first published in The Hill on February 16, 2011. After weeks of excitement and surprise, it is time to try to make meaning out of the momentous…
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
…2024, according to the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research; Net zero means that any carbon emissions created are balanced by taking the same amount of carbon out of the…