Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, December 2025
…the Nuclear Transparency Inventory (NUTRI). NUTRI will catalogue the transparency policies and practices of all nuclear-armed states regarding their nuclear arsenals and related facilities. JOB Google Deep Mind, Mountainview, CA…
North Africa Weekly: September 24, 2025
…Hear directly from experts, regional voices, and thought leaders shaping North Africa’s future. Google’s Managing Director for Africa on Digital Transformation Google announced four new African hubs to connect subsea…
Police-Building: United Nations Police Evolution, Present Capacity and Future Tasks
A paper entitled Police-Building: United Nations Police Evolution, Present Capacity and Future Tasks was presented by William Durch at the GRIPS State-Building Workshop 2010: Organizing Police Forces in Post-Conflict Peace-Support…
Afghanistan Under the Taliban: Findings on the Current Situation
…inevitable result of the termination of the foreign aid and international operations that funded most of the corruption. Reports on tax and customs revenues relayed by the United Nations tend…
Switzerland and the UN Security Council
…Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), “Foreign Policy Strategy 2020-23,” https://www.eda.admin.ch/dam/eda/en/documents/publications/SchweizerischeAussenpolitik/Aussenpolitische-Strategie-2020-23_EN.pdf, pp. 9. The key peace and security objectives of FPS 20-23 are to join the Security Council as a non-permanent…
The Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review
…not the other way around. Link in the other foreign policy agencies. State and USAID are only part of the foreign policy establishment. The “diaspora” of institutions doing global engagement…
Sequester Cuts Hurting US Foreign Policy
…training but advanced training that makes them more effective across all areas of foreign policy. As with the number of people, such training is something the State Department has always…
Africa in China’s New Foreign Aid White Paper
…foreign aid efforts since 2009. From 2010 to 2012, China’s foreign aid (89.34 billion yuan, approximately $14.9 billion) was equivalent to 35 percent of all foreign aid China had provided in…