Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Kacie Candela
- • February 19, 2018
A prestigious prize related to nuclear disarmament that has been given to Americans and Russians in the past has been awarded to a German, Wolfgang Ischinger, for the first time. The Nunn-Lugar Award for Promoting Nuclear Security honored Ischinger,…
- Categories: Disarmament, GOINGS-ON
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 9, 2016
There is no easy way to describe a book about the United Nations that is nearly 1,000 pages long, with dozens of authors, all experts in their fields. “The UN Security Council in the 21st Century” is that book, a…
- Categories: BOOKS
- Clothilde Le Coz
- • October 11, 2015
PHNOM PENH — Accused of organizing an “insurrection” last year, nearly a dozen Parliament ministers from the political opposition were sentenced to prison terms from 7 to 20 years by a Phnom Penh court this summer. The charge stemmed…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 26, 2015
With vast regions of the Middle East in flames, many thousands of people dying in executions born of religious intolerance or left to drown at sea by morally repugnant criminal traffickers, it could seem like an odd time to…
- Categories: Disarmament
- Irwin Arieff
- • January 1, 2013
Iran’s nuclear crisis has been dragging on for a decade, so it sure would be great if someone in the know finally laid out the definitive plan for resolving the dispute and ending Tehran’s international isolation. In “The Iranian…
- Categories: BOOKS, Disarmament, Middle East