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October 2, 2012

International Organizations
How to Advance the Rule of Law (Hint: Outside the UN)

At the United Nations, support for the rule of law has the aura of mom’s apple pie: Everybody loves it. Unfortunately, consensus ends there. UN member states can’t agree on how to define it, much les…

South Africa's President Zuma speaks during high-level meeting of General Assembly on the Rule of Law at United Nations headquarters in New York

February 26, 2015

United States
This Week: Mosul Offensive, Netanyahu’s Address, and Turkey’s Incursion

Significant Developments ISIS. Ashton Carter, wrapping up his first overseas trip as secretary of defense, met with top U.S. military and diplomatic officials in Kuwait on Monday to review the U.S…

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter delivers remarks to troops at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait February 23, 2015 (Ernst/Courtesy Reuters).

June 5, 2013

United States
CFR Task Force Calls on the U.S. to Preserve an Open and Secure Internet

The number of "state-backed operations continues to rise, and future attacks will become more sophisticated and disruptive," argues the new Task Force report, Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and…

December 13, 2010

Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament
TWE Quick Takes: Saddam Hussein, New START and More

Seven years ago today soldiers in the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division pulled Saddam Hussein from a hole underneath a two-room mud shack on a sheep farm in the town of ad-Dawr, …

TWE Quick Takes: Saddam Hussein, New START and More

October 5, 2011

International Organizations
No Profile in Courage: Syria, BRICS, and the UNSC

A woman holds a Syrian flag in a protest against Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad on October 3, 2011. (Majed Jaber/Courtesy Reuters) On Tuesday the United States and Europe sought to pass a UN Secu…

No Profile in Courage: Syria, BRICS, and the UNSC