Alexander Brotman
Alexander Brotman is the Joseph S. Nye Jr. External Relations Intern with the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C. He has a B.A. in film studies and media and communications from Muhlenberg College. He has worked for State Representative Alice Peisch of Massachusetts, Africa Center in Dublin, Harvard School of Public Health and Amnesty International.
- Alexander Brotman
- • May 19, 2016
With the goal of helping young people better understand the challenges of shaping American foreign policy, the Council on Foreign Relations has begun a new program, called Model Diplomacy, geared to high school and college students who are interested…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations
- Alexander Brotman
- • September 6, 2015
When Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution in July that called for an international tribunal to prosecute who is responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine a year ago, it was the latest…
- Categories: Security Council, US-UN Relations
- Alexander Brotman
- • June 29, 2015
Among the five veto-holding permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, some of the most militarized nations in the world — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — only China and Russia have increased their defense…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council
- Alexander Brotman
- • April 6, 2015
The small Central American nation of El Salvador has been playing an increasingly active role in United Nations peacekeeping operations around the world. From the UN mission in Haiti to the one in South Sudan, troops from El Salvador…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
- Alexander Brotman
- • February 16, 2015
As Boko Haram’s raging insurgency in northeast Nigeria shows no signs of letup, Nigeria’s neighbors are taking the lead in fighting back against the Islamic terrorist group, which has killed nearly 10,000 people from 2013 to 2014 alone and…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Alexander Brotman
- • December 11, 2014
A new report on global nutrition levels has found that malnutrition affects every country in the world except two, and that countries are facing more complex, overlapping forms of malnutrition that require more attention. The two exceptional countries, China…
- Categories: Africa, Health and Population, Poverty, SDGs
- Alexander Brotman
- • October 24, 2014
After an extraordinary effort from the United Nations, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and about a half dozen countries, including the United States and Russia, 96 percent of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal has been destroyed, acting…
- Categories: Disarmament, Libya, Middle East, Security Council
- Alexander Brotman
- • October 10, 2014
Far from the first point of entry into Europe for asylum seekers, Sweden has emerged as one of the most generous nations in the European Union, offering to take in high numbers of migrants when other nations have been…
- Alexander Brotman
- • August 11, 2014
An international mission of forensic experts and unarmed police led by the Netherlands, with Australian and Malaysian participation, has temporarily suspended its investigation and recovery work at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine. The…
- Categories: Security Council, UN Agencies
- Alexander Brotman
- • July 28, 2014
Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, 2.9 million people have fled the country to refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and beyond. This has not only destabilized many Middle Eastern countries, but it has…
- Categories: Middle East, Refugees
- Alexander Brotman
- • July 1, 2014
Although Syria has turned over all of its declared chemical weapons stockpile to international authorities, defying expectations that it would not meet a June 30 deadline, the next hurdle is securely destroying the material outside the country. Danish and…
- Categories: Disarmament, Middle East
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