Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, April 2024

…It provides an evidence-based overview of nuclear power plant operation, production, fleet age, and construction, newbuild programs in existing and potentially new nuclear countries, and of Small Modular Reactor (SMR)…
Japan under DPJ Rule
…more—who were anxious about the new DPJ-led Japanese government’s capacity to govern. After all, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) had dominated most of the five decades of Japan’s postwar history…
Alliance First: An Assessment of the New US Policy on the DPRK

…already narrowed. In his speech, Kim noted: “the structure of the [sic] international relations has been reduced to the structure of ‘neo-Cold War.’” In reference to the Biden administration’s new…
Rethinking COIN: Petraeus Retires
…to remake nations that are busy remaking themselves, without our “help and advice.” We are now facing a budget and economic crisis at home, one that preoccupies the political machinery…
Japan’s Foreign Policy Challenges in East Asia: Views from the Next Generation
A new Stimson Center report, with essays written by four Japanese policy analysts, takes a close look at the challenges Japan faces in the coming years. The topics covered in…
Enhance the UN Capacity to Support Conflict Prevention

…R2P Monitor. Issue 50, March 15, 2020. Accessed May 29, 2020. https://www.globalr2p.org/publications/r2p-monitor-issue-50-15-march-2020/. 5 United Nations. General Assembly. 2005 World Summit Outcome. A/RES/60/1. October 24, 2005, paras. 138, 139. 6 Commission…
Nuclear Security News and Member Updates Roundup, August 2021
…We will be sending around a summary of the event in the next few weeks. Nuclear Security News International Architecture New IAEA Guidance in Emergency Preparedness and Response: “A new…
International Disaster Response: Rebuilding the Quad? Views from the Next Generation

…remains vague. This latest volume of the Views from the Next Generation series asks a compelling question: Could the Quad become a new platform for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief?…