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JUN 10, 2016 • Journal
Lost in Transformation? The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals
On September 25, 2015, the world’s leaders adopted a new suite of development goals—the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—that are to guide policymakers for the ...
JUN 10, 2016 • Journal
Transformative Equality: Making the Sustainable Development Goals Work for Women
It is generally agreed by most observers that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have fallen short of achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. Today, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...