Tag: Multilateral Institutions & Agreements

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Dialogues

Migration and Displacement in an Era of Chaos with Caroline Njuki

GJIA: The atmosphere surrounding the migrant crisis seems to be extremely chaotic and dramatized in the media. Is this helping? CN: There is a lot of talk and seeming action, as…

December 17, 2019

Global Governance

The Different Levels of Geopolitics of the Arctic

Fortunately, with more attention comes more comprehensive knowledge as well. Several scholars have now debunked the notion of “resource wars” in the North, due to the sheer…

December 5, 2019

Dialogues

Stéphane Dujarric on Contemporary Challenges Facing the Media

GJIA: How, if at all, has the U.S. government’s use of the term “fake news” undermined the media and impacted your job at the UN? SD: I think there has been a growing…

December 2, 2019

Global Governance

Collective Finance for NATO’s Collective Security

To achieve this goal, the United States should work with NATO to collectively finance its security. Here is how to start: NATO’s more creditworthy countries, which are mainly…

November 29, 2019

Conflict & Security

Collateral Damage No More: Urban Conflict, Explosive Weapons, and a Case Study in Multilateral Norm Building

Twenty years after the UN Security Council first adopted the resolution on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict—and 70 years after the Geneva Conventions—the…

November 21, 2019

Dialogues

Kathleen McNamara on Brexit and the Future of the UK

GJIA: Brexit has been in the news recently. Jeremy Corbin announced on October 29th that he was in favor of a general election in December 2019. If a general election happens,…

November 19, 2019

Conflict & Security

China and the “Near-Arctic:” An Opportunity Lost Over 150 Years Ago

Before China’s near-Arctic assertion, the term “near-Arctic” was little-known and seldom used. There have been, however, related terms and concepts that conveyed a…

September 5, 2019

Conflict & Security

NATO at 70: An Analysis of What’s Come, What’s Gone, and What the Future Holds

Looking Back When the Treaty of Brussels was signed on August 25, 1948, the world was, geopolitically-speaking, a strikingly different place. Just three years prior, Germany had…

September 3, 2019

Conflict & Security

A Court Worth Having? Growing Pains at the International Criminal Court

The U.S. government has had a highly ambivalent attitude toward the ICC from the beginning. Washington long supported a jurisdictional procedure for an international criminal…

May 16, 2019

Conflict & Security

Strengthening European Defense Capabilities: A Polish Perspective

Even as Poland celebrated the 20th anniversary of its accession to NATO last month, the assumptions Warsaw made in the 1990s are being tested by the recent onset of trans…

May 15, 2019