“Well, Somebody Has to Arrange the Matches”
…(2004) Training Course” (United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs, 2019), https://www.disarmamenteducation.org/index.php?go=education&do=training-1540. As a result, in 2004 under the auspices of Chapter VII of the UN Charter, the United Nations Security…
Diplomacy in a Time of Scarcity
…(above attrition) 490 positions specifically for long-term training in the FY 2014 budget: 330 for language training to meet Congressional requirements and 160 for training to reach mid-level needs. 4. …
Building Afghan Security Requires A Long-Term U.S. Commitment
…direct combat operations, training foreign forces has turned out to be enormously difficult in conflict zones that lack legitimate local political institutions. After the U.S. withdrew its forces from Iraq in December…
President Trump, You Can Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
…children in combat. The 2008 Child Soldiers Prevention Act prohibits US arms sales and military training to foreign governments that recruit and deploy child soldiers in their national militaries or government-backed armed…
What’s in a Tripwire: The Post-Cold War Transformation of the US Military Presence in Korea
…However, EASI and the Nye Initiative shared certain core assumptions. Both highlighted the increasing importance of the region to U.S. trade, economic, and foreign policy interests and the importance of…
Will Europe Give Iran’s New President A Chance?
…energy security, transit routes, environment and combating terrorism and drug trafficking. Further evidence of his intentions came in the active involvement in his campaign of former foreign minister Javad Zarif…
French Foreign, Defense, and National Security Policy: New Initiatives?
By Alix Boucher – Commissioned by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, two new White Papers—one on defense and national security policy, the other on foreign affairs—herald major change in France’s strategic…
Madeleine Albright, Ibrahim Gambari to Lead High-Level Commission on Security, Justice & Governance
…former Minister of Foreign Relations of Brazil); Lloyd Axworthy (former Foreign Minister of Canada); Igor Ivanov (former Foreign Minister of Russian Federation); Yoriko Kawaguchi (former Foreign and Environment Minister of…