Geopolitics
- Mikaela Conley
- • February 14, 2022
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BERLIN — The number of countries declaring they are carrying out a feminist foreign policy is quickly increasing throughout the world, with Spain, France, Canada, Mexico, Luxembourg, Libya and now Germany joining Sweden’s pioneering concept, declaring that the countries’ diplomacies …
- Categories: Geopolitics, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 31, 2019
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Once again, 2019 marked incredible upheaval and change across the world, just as 2018 did so universally, signaled by the continued rise in nationalism and revolts by women against repression and violence in their daily lives. Reporting on how United …
- Categories: Gender Violence, Geopolitics, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela
- • December 23, 2019
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This year was a big one for China, and 2020 is likely to be much the same — if not more intense, given the range of issues involving the United States and far beyond. For our last episode of the …
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Geopolitics, Security Council, UN Special Envoys
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- Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela
- • November 20, 2019
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African summits may be in vogue worldwide, and Russia’s recent summit in Sochi in late October was no exception. A PassBlue correspondent, Joe Penney, traveled to the Black Sea resort to report on President Vladimir Putin’s pitch to African leaders, …
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Geopolitics, US Foreign Relations
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- Joe Penney
- • October 28, 2019
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SOCHI, Russia — As the Turkish presidential plane carried President Recep Tayyip Erdogan across the Black Sea from Sochi, Russia, back to Ankara last week, dozens of African heads of state arrived in this resort city for the inaugural Russia-Africa …
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • October 24, 2019
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Anywhere from the capital of Nicosia, day and night, Greek Cypriots can see a giant flag painted into the mountains in the north, in a separate region that calls itself the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. It is an area …
- Categories: Geopolitics, Secretary-General
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 12, 2019
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Just days after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt met with President Trump in the White House, receiving an effusive reception, Trump nominated Jonathan R. Cohen, the acting permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations, as ambassador …
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • February 18, 2019
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After fleeing violence and unemployment in their home country for the relative stability of neighboring Iran, hundreds of thousands of undocumented Afghans are now returning home. The mass reverse migration is taking place just as the United States, eager to …
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Migration, Terrorism, US Foreign Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 31, 2018
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — On the main drag of Euclid Avenue in this Midwestern city sprawls the main campus of the Cleveland Clinic, the renowned hospital that attracts an estimated 2.5 million patients nationwide and abroad, including from the Middle East. …
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, US Foreign Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • December 28, 2018
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TEL AVIV — Every day in some provinces of Vietnam, the simple act of walking can be deadly, as people risk stepping on unexploded ordnances, remnants from America’s war there that ended more than 40 years ago. The United States …
- Categories: Disarmament, Geopolitics, Middle East, US Foreign Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 26, 2018
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In a rebuke to President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua on Dec. 21, governments of 14 democratic nations in Europe, the United States, Chile and Australia condemned the closing, banning or expulsion of civil-society organizations working on rights and governance issues …
- Categories: Geopolitics, Human Rights, Latin America
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 6, 2018
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They call it the “Trump effect” and it is permeating and weakening support for numerous international agreements still in their formative stages. For governments, diplomats and civil society around the world, accustomed to bombastic outbursts from Donald Trump, American policy …
- Categories: Geopolitics, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • December 2, 2018
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Horst Koehler, a former German president who has been the United Nations special envoy for Western Sahara since last year, is bringing the parties to the longstanding conflict over that region to a roundtable meeting in Geneva soon. Koehler expressed …
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 19, 2018
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Secretary-General António Guterres is now the focus of concerted demands for the United Nations to establish an independent international tribunal to investigate the brutal murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the country’s consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. …
- Categories: Geopolitics, Secretary-General, US Foreign Relations
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- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • October 4, 2018
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Just days before the United Nations held a meeting with heads of state and foreign ministers on Secretary-General António Guterres’s Action for Peacekeeping initiative, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2436 on peace operations, on Sept. 21. Drafted by …
- Categories: Geopolitics, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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