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Yes, U.N. Does Pass the Arms Trade Treaty

U.N. General Assembly passes Arms Trade Treaty Update to 26 of March entry, “Will a New Arms Trade Treaty Be Approved?”: On 2 April, the U.N. General Assembly passed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) – the...

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The ATT, the NRA, and the Politics of Treaty Ratification

The NRA depicts the Arms Trade Treaty as an effort to impose domestic gun control measures through international law. (Photo: oneoldvet.com) Regular readers of Foreign Policy Blogs may be familiar...

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Africa Showing Zero Tolerance for Organized Terror

Nigeria increased its offensive last week against the insurgence group Boko Haram in an attempt to reclaim the northwest region where the rebel group has attempted to carve out an Islamic state for the...

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Neutrality is No Longer an Option

Photo: POOL/Reuters As a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, China has sometimes drawn criticism for the use of its veto...

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Chong Chon Gang and North Korea’s Arms-Refurbishing Trade

  The North Korean freighter MV Chong Chon Gang (Photo: marinetraffic.com) Sometimes you look at it, and it seems a fairly straight-forward, if somewhat bizarre, story. Then again, it bears a hint of...

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A War of Words on Syria

Rebel soldier of the Free Syrian Army, Aleppo. (Image Credit: AP) The language of war could swell volumes with what would at once be the most depressing and coldly technical glossaries of chaos ever...

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The Whistleblower (2010)

Sex trafficking. It happens all over the world but is largely invisible to most. What The Whistleblower (a drama, not a documentary) does is expose it as it occurred in Bosnia in 1999, four years after...

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Strike on Syria: What Kind of World?

President Woodrow Wilson has long fascinated me. He is one of those presidents that is a giant in history, but few people know much about him. Steven Spielberg has never made a movie about him, you...

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Poor timing may leave CAR to its fate

Rebels are running rampant throughout the Central African Republic terrorizing civilians The people of the Central African Republic (CAR) may be left to fend for themselves. Despite the increasingly...

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Commodifying nature: The price of ice

January sunset in Northern Norway. (c) Mia Bennett 2013. A graduate student recently interviewed me for his dissertation on Russia, the Arctic, oil and gas. During the interview, he asked me what I...

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With M23 on the run, DRC has golden opportunity for peace

It is up to President Kabila to rebuild the eastern DRC by ending corruption. Mouvement du 23-Mars (M23) rebels fled their stronghold in Bunaguna, a small town in the North Kivu province of the...

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The U.N. Lacks Moral Authority to Dictate Morale in Haiti

  Photo: Latimes It is a volcano jumping between dormant and active stages and last month, it erupted again, spitting a litany of condemning editorials across global opinion pages that set ablaze...

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Kerry Shuffles to Jordan Hoping to Keep the Peace Process Alive

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gets off a plane as he arrives at the Ciampino Airport, near Rome, on March 25, 2014 (AFP Photo/Andreas Solaro) On Wednesday, Mar. 26, United States Secretary of...

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Assessing Risk in a Global Energy Market

  The Russia-Ukraine standoff shows no signs of diffusing after more than five months of conflict that have so far involved Russian troops on the ground, a change in government and constitution in...

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Nigeria Key to U.S. Security in Africa

The outbreak of Ebola across West Africa has brought the region to the forefront of global security. As the deadly Ebola virus rips across West Africa causing death and civil unrest (i.e., due to the...

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