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JUN 10, 2016 Journal

Equality as a Global Goal

The MDGs were often criticized for having a “blind spot” with regard to inequality and social injustice. Worse, they may even have contributed to entrenched ...

JUN 10, 2016 Journal

Accountability for the Sustainable Development Goals: A Lost Opportunity?

The question of accountability—or, more precisely, the question of how governments will be held to account for implementing the commitments made in this new ...

JUN 10, 2016 Journal

The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Humanitarian Drones

What comes to mind when we hear the word “drone”? For many of us, it is the image of a General Atomics MQ-1B Predator ...

Around the Bataclan, Paris, November 2015. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jmenj/22442015744" target="_blank">JeanneMenjoulet&Cie</a>

MAY 24, 2016 Article

The Symbiotic Relationship between Western Media and Terrorism

Mass media and terrorism have become ever more intertwined in a mutually beneficial relationship often described as 'symbiotic.' This column examines that dynamic and ...

U.S. President Barack Obama at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. CREDIT: U.S. Embassy Tokyo via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japan_Obama_Hiroshima_(27501980926).jpg">Wikipedia</a>

MAY 23, 2016 Article

Obama at Hiroshima

The president's visit to Hiroshima to affirm his commitment to a world without nuclear weapons is no doubt a legacy-burnishing gesture, writes Rosenthal. "Yet there ...

MAY 20, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trump

Listening to Marketplace's discussion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, two things jumped out at me: the first is the assessment that, after all the heavy lifting ...

Ourania Sophia Yancopoulos. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni

MAY 16, 2016 Article

Gender Imbalance in the UN Leadership

"Despite the UN's repeated commitment to 50/50 gender parity, the UN has never been even close to this goal," writes Ourania Yancopoulos in this follow-up interview ...

MAY 15, 2016 Article

Obama at Hiroshima

President Obama’s impending visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park completes a process long in the works and fundamental to his foreign policy agenda. ...

Fifth Moscow Conference on International Security

MAY 12, 2016 Article

The Fifth Annual Moscow Conference on International Security

David Speedie attended this important three-day conference and reports that "a global array of speakers articulated a corresponding range of country/area-specific concerns, much of ...

APR 28, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

The Ethics of Trump's Foreign Policy vs. Obama's Long Game

Much of the reaction to Donald Trump's foreign policy speech, beyond the campaign-related questions of whether this address makes him look more presidential or electable, ...