Nuclear Disarmament
- Rhona Scullion
- • October 9, 2017
DUNDEE, Scotland — While most British people have a generally positive view of the United Nations, public awareness of who their diplomats are and how they carry out their work in New York is minimal to nonexistent. Yet the…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 21, 2017
One of the biggest criticisms lodged against Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, has been his lack of commentary on the country’s history with its indigenous people of its First Nations, Métis and Inuit populations. In what could…
- Categories: General Assembly, Nuclear Disarmament
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 20, 2017
The fight over preserving the Iranian nuclear deal took a firmer direction at the United Nations on Sept. 20. After Donald Trump, the United States president, proclaimed to the General Assembly the day before that the deal was “one…
- Categories: Disarmament, Gender Violence, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, Terrorism
- Kacie Candela
- • September 11, 2017
The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed an American-led resolution on Sept. 11, imposing tougher sanctions on North Korea, including a naval blockade and oil embargo, despite wariness from China and Russia. While the final resolution is a much-watered-down…
- Categories: Asia, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council
- Irwin Arieff
- • September 3, 2017
Donald Trump will have his third chance this October to weigh in on Iranian compliance with the international nuclear agreement reached by Tehran in 2015 with the United States and five other world powers. The United States Congress requires…
- Categories: Nikki Haley Watch, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council
- Kacie Candela
- • August 25, 2017
Nikki Haley has been appearing on American TV news programs an awful lot lately, so what gives? Some observers point to Haley as a refreshing and stable face amid an unpredictable White House and uncannily quiet secretary of state,…
- Irwin Arieff
- • August 14, 2017
If you are reading this, it must mean we have not been annihilated by a nuclear war between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Not that Nikki Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations,…
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 18, 2017
When Maleeha Lodhi arrived at the United Nations in 2015 as Pakistan’s ambassador, she brought with her a broad background in academia, journalism and diplomacy: a Ph.D. in political science from the London School of Economics, where she later…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Nuclear Disarmament
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • July 7, 2017
Nuclear buildup and threat of nuclear war became a front-page item this past week, after Kim Jong Un’s declaration of a successful intercontinental ballistic missile test, confirmed on July 4 by United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Such…
- Categories: Disarmament, Gender Violence, Geopolitics, Nuclear Disarmament
- Mary Olson
- • July 5, 2017
The new nuclear weapons ban treaty, to be most likely adopted by the United Nations General Assembly this week, arises from hope for our future. The negotiations for the treaty have elevated new information about the damage from ionizing…
- Categories: Disabilities, Gender Violence, Health and Population, Nuclear Disarmament, WORLDVIEWS
- Keith Porter
- • May 8, 2017
We stand on the shoulders of those who created the international order, which has prevented world war for more than 70 years. “American leaders who laid foundations of the contemporary world order envisioned a world in which all peoples…
- Categories: ICC, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 28, 2017
Speaking to the United Nations Security Council at a meeting on North Korea held at the foreign-minister level, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asked member countries to join the United States in a strong campaign to enhance pressures on the…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 2, 2016
Whatever the real reason that led Donald Trump to name Nikki Haley as his ambassador to the United Nations — that she is a “deal-maker,” a woman from an ethnic minority and a moderate Republican voice he may want…
- Categories: Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 5, 2016
When the last of President Barack Obama’s four summit meetings on keeping weapons-grade material out of the hands of terrorists and criminals ended on April 1, there were no headline advances to report, as experts were predicting. Instead, Obama…
- Categories: Africa, Nuclear Disarmament, US Foreign Relations
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