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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 ...
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. ...
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, ...