If the Security Council fails to reform it is ultimately doomed to fail.
Read More »The EU and the Migration Crisis: A New Way Ahead
More than 1,750 people have died thus far in 2015 from their attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea and enter Europe
Read More »Introduction: Reforming the UN Security Council
When the UN was formed, 22% of its members were in the Security Council; now that figure lies at only 8%.
Read More »A Year After Mosul
Last year’s rout of the Iraqi Army in the northern city of Mosul by ISIS represented the nadir of the post-2003 Iraqi state. But if the country’s long-term prospects have brightened noticeably since the dark summer of 2014, its path to that future is still filled with uncertainty.
Read More »The Right to Life and The Death Penalty: Indonesia’s Failure
As a collective we cannot argue to rally around the notion of human rights and allow the continued use of the death penalty. Human rights will only prevail if abolition becomes the adopted norm.
Read More »Tony Blair’s time as MidEast Quartet Representative was not a failure
Ultimately the odds were never in Mr Blair’s favour. He took on an impossible and thankless task
Read More »New and Improved NATO Deterrence: Prelude to a New Geopolitical Balance?
We should hope these new challenges in Ukraine and in the south with ISIS will strengthen the alliance once more for the future – a future with a potentially bigger challenge involving the economic and military rise of China.
Read More »Human Trafficking: Modern Trends of the Slavery Enterprise and the Missing Links
Given the scale that human trafficking has reached, the drive to eliminate the phenomenon will be a long road, but that is never an excuse for complacency.
Read More »Iraq needs ‘Decisive Storm’
Recent pleas by then Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal for American “boots on the ground” to prevent Tehran from “taking over Iraq” have fallen on deaf ears in Washington.
Read More »Principle of Reciprocity: A hidden Value in Humanitarian Conventions
. We contend that the incorporation of reciprocity in humanitarian conventions will prove to be a significant step towards legitimizing humanitarian intervention and
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