Eliminating The Lord’s Resistance Army Once And For All
…a recommendation made in a Stimson Center Spotlight Analysis earlier this year. The following analysis was originally posted on May 24, 2011. By Guy Hammond – Over the past year,…
Nuclear Talks With Iran: Will New EU and US Roles Make a Difference?
…security concerns. Second, despite Ahmadinejad’s dismissal of the new sanctions as a “handkerchief which should be thrown in the dustbin,” there is evidence that the new international sanctions are adversely…
Ellen Laipson’s Op-ed in World Politics Review on Iran and Trump
…Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees last week and the death of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Jan. 8—has put Iran back in the spotlight. Read the full article here….
Engineering the Mekong: How Upstream Dams are Reshaping Cambodia’s Flooded Forests
…flooded forest. Figure 1: Location of the Stung Treng Ramsar Site and Flooded Forest Image: Large scale land and vegetation loss at Koh Ko Ki in the flooded forest in…
Stimson Experts Analyze Iran Nuclear Agreement
…concluded, it also will strengthen the hands of all the non-nuclear nations, putting new pressures on the remaining nuclear weapon states to make more significant progress toward the elimination of…
What Does Tokyo’s New Governor Mean for Japanese Politics?
…for office as a candidate from the Japan New Party (Nihon Shinto) in 1992, then changed her affiliation to New Frontier Party (Shin-Shin to), Liberal Party (Jiyu-to), and New Conservative Party (Hoshu-to) before joining…
Climate Change and Famine in Somalia
By Halae Fuller – The United Nations declared a famine in the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of southern Somalia on July 20, thrusting a humanitarian crisis that has been…
Alison Giffen quoted in NPR story on Lord’s Resistance Army
…troops into Africa to assist regional forces combating the Lord’s Resistance Army. To read the full article, please click here; then read the related Stimson spotlight, Eliminating the Lord’s Resistance…