Improve UN Civilian Capacity to Build Back Swiftly in the Aftermath of Conflict
…has the potential to erode international crisis management systems and further destabilize fragile countries by exacerbating both domestic and regional tensions.2International Crisis Group. COVID-19 and Conflict: Seven Trends to Watch….
Bridging the Gap Between UN Special Envoys and the Protection of Civilians
…two terms, experts have described his approach to crisis diplomacy as cautious,37International Crisis Group, “Explaining the UN Secretary-General’s Cautious Crisis Diplomacy,” Richard Gowan (May 2021), accessed March 23, 2026, https://www.crisisgroup.org/cmt/global/explaining-un-secretary-generals-cautious-crisis-diplomacy;…
Emma Ashford: Where Do American Interests End?
…-time fan of your essays, publications, interviews of all sorts. Emma Ashford: That’s very kind of you to say. I think we’re all excited that we can have a program…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, February 2026
…deployment of new nuclear technologies. NUCLEAR NEWSWIRE NSI argues for direct disposal as quickest path to nuclear scaling The Nuclear Scaling Initiative announced a new campaign promoting the direct disposal…
Victoria Panova: Russia and BRICS
…and new rules and regulations for the new areas be it digital currency, be it artificial intelligence, with other issues, advanced issues. It would benefit much more if we come…
Host-Country Consent in UN Peacekeeping
…Secretary-General’s Cautious Crisis Diplomacy,” International Crisis Group, 5 May 2021, https://www.crisisgroup.org/global/explaining-un-secretary-generals-cautious-crisis-diplomacy. With peacekeeping at an inflection point, these wider geopolitical tensions and the tenuous nature of consent and cooperation in…
Modernize the South Asia Nuclear Facility “Non-Attack” Agreement
…Measures in South Asia, ed. Moonis Ahmar (New Delhi: Har Anand Publications, 2001), 208; and W. P. S. Sidhu, “India’s Security and Nuclear Risk-Reduction Measures,” in Nuclear Risk-Reduction Measures in…
Clarify and Respect the Line of Actual Control
…13; and Joshi, “The Wuhan Summit and the India-China Border Dispute,” 10. [32] Menon, Choices, 14; and Joshi, “The Wuhan Summit and the India-China Border Dispute,” 11. [33] China does…