Keys to Developing a More Efficient, Effective Defense at Lower Cost

…in part by significantly reducing service contracting.30“Transforming DoD’s Core Business Processes for Revolutionary Change.” Defense Business Board. Jan. 22, 2015. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1001666.pdf#page=3 And an analysis by the Project On Government Oversight…

Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, June 2025

…(CFR) is hiring a Research Associate for its Nuclear Security program in Washington, DC. This full-time position supports a senior fellow by conducting research, managing events, and handling administrative tasks. Ideal candidates will have a…

Use Environmental Diplomacy to Resolve the Sir Creek Dispute

…Army Corps of Engineers, National Research Council (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2004), https://www.nap.edu/read/10970/chapter/1#ii. [11] Stimson Center, “Research Pages: Simla Agreement,” July 2, 1972, https://www.stimson.org/simla-agreement. [12] Shaista Tabassum, interview by author, Karachi, December 20,…

Taiwan Security Brief: 2020

…No: 116-135 (03/26/2020),https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1678/text. 25 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan), Twitter Post, 27 March 2020, https://twitter.com/MOFA_Taiwan/status/1243501513680486406?s=20. 26 Colin Dwyer, “De Facto U.S. Embassy In Taiwan Dedicates New Complex — Over…

Technological Change and the UN Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes

…(Human Rights Watch, April 9, 2015), https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/04/09/mind-gap/lack-accountability-killer-robots.   56   Note: James Igoe Walsh, “Political Accountability and Autonomous Weapons,” Research & Politics 2, no. 4 (October 1, 2015): 2053168015606749, https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168015606749.   57…

The Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540

…context of international security,” May 2021, https://docs-library.unoda.org/Open-Ended_Working_Group_on_Information_and_Communication_Technologies_-_(2021)/Proposal_of_structure_of_the_RID_future_mechanism_-_PoA_for_consideration_of_the_OEWG_(FR).pdf. Notes 1 Security Council resolution 1540, S/RES/1540 (28 April 2004), available from https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N04/328/43/PDF/N0432843.pdf?OpenElement. https://undocs.org/Home/Mobile?FinalSymbol=S%2FRES%2F1540(2004)&Language=E&DeviceType=Desktop&LangRequested=False. 2 Note, much good work has and is going…