Geopolitics
- Mikaela Conley
- • February 14, 2022
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’…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 31, 2019
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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Geopolitics, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • December 23, 2019
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…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Geopolitics, Security Council, UN Special Envoys
- Stéphanie Fillion  and Kacie Candela
- • November 20, 2019
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…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Geopolitics, US Foreign Relations
- Joe Penney
- • October 28, 2019
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…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • October 24, 2019
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…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Secretary-General
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 12, 2019
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…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • February 18, 2019
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…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Migration, Terrorism, US Foreign Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 31, 2018
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…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, US Foreign Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • December 28, 2018
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…
- Categories: Disarmament, Geopolitics, Middle East, US Foreign Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 26, 2018
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…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Human Rights, Latin America
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 6, 2018
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…
- Categories: Geopolitics, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • December 2, 2018
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…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 19, 2018
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….
- Categories: Geopolitics, Secretary-General, US Foreign Relations
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • October 4, 2018
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…
- Categories: Geopolitics, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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