Tag: Multilateral Institutions & Agreements
194 Articles
- 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 relative …
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
- Conflict & Security
Signs of Life in Nuclear Diplomacy: A Look Beyond the Doom and Gloom
To be fair, PrepCom participants had every reason to succumb to the prevailing doom and gloom. Decades of gridlock over the NPT Review Process created a growing sense that…
April 27, 2019
- Science & Technology
The Missing International Piece of the Green New Deal
The resolution has received no shortage of praise and criticism. On the one hand, defenders see the document as visionary, putting climate change much higher on the political …
April 21, 2019
- Global Governance
The Eclipse of the European Union’s Global Influence
Doomsday scenarios of an implosion of the EU remain premature. Centrist and establishment parties will still control around two-thirds of the European Parliament. Even if…
April 6, 2019
- Conflict & Security
The Post-Brexit EU Needs France and Germany to Deliver on Promises
The June 2016 Brexit referendum took place in the aftermath of nearly a decade of fundamental crises that impacted Europe. Between the global banking crisis, the resulting…
March 18, 2019