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How the International Criminal Court Shapes Global Politics

An Ebola Outbreak In The Democratic Republic of the Congo Has Been Contained With Astonishing Speed

In a Stunning Turn, A United Security Council Visits Damascus

The Security Council Goes To Syria

The United Nations and the Origins of Giving Tuesday

The Last of Syria's Political Prisoners are Still Languishing in Lebanese Jails

What Happens When America Withdraws? | Live From The Halifax International Security Forum With Justin Ling

Live From Kabul — The World’s First Capital Facing Total Water Collapse

What We Think About the Gaza Resolution at the Security Council

What We Think About the Gaza Resolution at the Security Council

How the General Assembly Can Get Its Peace and Security Groove Back

Why An "International Stabilization Force" for Gaza is Probably Doomed

What Zohran Mamdani Means for the United Nations

When Treaties Work: The Biological Weapons Convention

What Zohran Mamdani's Win Means for the UN

What Political Science Teaches Us About Tanzania’s Fraudulent Elections and Protest Movement

A Genocidal Massacre Is Unfolding in El Fasher, Sudan

Live From Cameroon: What’s Driving The Political Unrest

Sudan’s War Takes An Even Deadlier Turn

North Korea is Getting Even More Repressive

Can a UN-Backed International Security Force Rescue the Gaza Ceasefire?

Will the Security Council Back a Gaza Stabilization Force? | Trump vs. the International Maritime Organization | Plus: Heba Aly on a New Push for UN Charter Reform

Is the US About to Attempt Regime Change in Venezuela?

The New "High Seas Treaty" Hasn't Even Entered into Force Yet, But Is Already Making a Difference

What Comes Next For Israel, Gaza and the Region | With Matt Duss

Did The Gaza Ceasefire Emanate From UNGA?

Did The Gaza Ceasefire Emanate From UNGA? Plus: A New "Gang Suppression Force" for Haiti and our Nobel Predictions

Inside the Room Where the Nobel Peace Prize Is Decided

Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize This Year

Sudan's Civil War Takes an Even Deadlier Turn

How Seriously Should We Take Escalator-Gate?

“Your Countries Are Going to Hell”: Trump’s UNGA Speech, Unpacked | Live From UNGA

“Your Countries Are Going to Hell”: Trump’s UNGA Speech, Unpacked

The 9 Speeches I'll Be Tracking at UNGA This Year

Immunizations Are One of Africa's Greatest Public Health Success Stories | Future of Africa, Episode 7

Is America Suddenly at War With Venezuela?

Women and Girls Will Write the Future of Africa | Future of Africa, Episode 6

UNGA Could Mark a Turning Point in Palestine’s Quest for Statehood

These Are The Stories We'll Be Following At UNGA

These are the Stories that Will Drive the Agenda at UNGA This Year

Mark's Personal UNGA Preview

How to Transform Education in Africa | Future of Africa, Episode 5

The UN Turns 80 — and Faces an Era of Doing Less

How to Solve the "Trust Deficit" in Africa | Future of Africa Episode 4

U.S. Nixes UNIFIL and Denies Famine in Gaza | Plus, is Antonio Guterres Too Timid?

US Nixes UNIFIL and Denies Famine in Gaza | Plus, is Antonio Guterres Too Timid?

How Global Development Finance Deals Can Actually Drive Local Impact | Future of Africa Episode 3

It's Official: Famine in Gaza

Can a Series of Global AI Summits Actually Shape the Rules that will Govern the World’s Most Powerful Technology?

The Climate, Peace & Security Nexus | Future of Africa Episode 2

States Are Lining Up to Recognize Palestinian Statehood at the UN | Tammy Bruce Tapped as Deputy US-UN Amb

Episode 1: Africa’s Role on the Global Stage

Introducing: "The Future of Africa" -- A New Podcast Series

What We Can Expect from the Putin-Trump Alaska Summit | With Evelyn Farkas

Famine in Gaza — A Political and Humanitarian Tipping Point?

A UN Expert on Enforced Disappearances Investigates the U.S. Detention of Venezuelan Migrants in El Salvador

Global Voices Take Center Stage at Aspen Security Forum

What We Learned from Mike Waltz’s U.N. Ambassador Confirmation Hearing

What We Learned From Mike Waltz's Confirmation Hearing

What the Rescission Package Means for the UN

The Demise of NGOs

Searching for Compromiso in Seville | Is Rafael Grossi Radioactive?

Searching for Compromiso in Seville | Is Rafael Grossi Radioactive?

How Trump’s Aid Cuts Are Costing Lives in Sudan—The Largest Crisis on Earth

RFK Jr.’s Attack on Global Vaccinations Could Cost Hundreds of Thousands of Children’s Lives

Will The Iran-Israel Ceasefire Hold?

A Reckless and Unnecessary War

What the UN is Doing About the Iran-Israel War

What the UN is Doing about the Iran-Israel War | Plus: The US walks out of a key UN conference, and why the UN might abandon its historic building in Geneva

To Bomb or Not? Inside the Republican Debate on Iran

"They Have Decapitated the Iranian Military"

My Interview With UN Peacekeeping Chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix

Will The U.S and Iran Cut a New Nuclear Deal?

The Gaza Aid Debacle

A Fight Over Horses(!) Tells Us A Whole Lot About The Sad State of Trump's Diplomacy at the UN

New Faces at the UN—and a Horse Fight at the General Assembly

Two Podcast Series That Showcase Solutions For A World on Edge

When Treaties Work: The Pandemic Agreement

Pope Leo Makes His Foreign Policy Debut

The Nuclear Threat From Space | Bill Hennigan

The WHO’s Pandemic Treaty Shows What Post-American Multilateralism Looks Like

How Science Can Build a Nuclear Free Future | Zia Mian

Is The UN Moving to Rwanda?

Will the UN Set Up Shop in Rwanda?

The UN Has a Rare Shot at Reducing the Risks of AI in Warfare

India and Pakistan: A Fragile Ceasefire Holds—But for How Long?

Can The UN Ban AI-Powered “Killer Robots” Before It’s Too Late?

The UN Just Issued Its Most Alarming Gaza Famine Warning Yet

Who Will Be the Next UN Secretary-General? | With Richard Gowan

The Time Joseph Nye Told Me His Life Story

How Trump’s "Skinny Budget" Could Break the UN

When Treaties Work: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Canada’s Mark Carney Just Turned Trump’s Power Play Into a Global Rebellion

Trump is Coming for the SDGs

Should We Break Out the Champagne for The New Pandemic Treaty?

Should We Break Out the Champagne for The New Pandemic Treaty?

What We Know About Trump’s Nuclear Policy | Alexandra Bell

Inside the Hunt for Hidden Nuclear Weapons | Eliana Johns

Why We are in a ‘New’ Nuclear Age | Ankit Panda

How Pope Francis Became a Diplomatic Ninja

Live From The Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference

Tariffs, Counter-Measures, and What Comes Next in the US-China "Trade War"

What the World is Ignoring About Sudan’s Civil War

If the U.S. Defunds UN Peacekeeping, Then Get Ready for More War

The U.S.-China Trade War Threatens to Undo Decades of Progress Against Global Poverty

Trump’s Tariffs Are Making a Mess at the UN

Trump’s Tariffs Are Making a Mess at the UN

Analyzing The Geopolitical Fallout As Trump’s Trade War Takes Shape

Something Strange is Happening in Canada

Crisis in Myanmar: Earthquake Aftermath and Global Response

The Myanmar Earthquake Will Reveal What Happens When a Major Disaster Strikes and the U.S. Is Nowhere to Be Found

Elise Stefanik is Staying in Congress. Why That's Bad News for the UN

Chaos and Crisis as Pink Slips by the Thousands (!) Hit the UN Refugee Agency and International Organization for Migration

Crisis at the UN Refugee Agency and International Organization for Migration

The World’s Largest Refugee Camp Is About to Collapse

The View From Panama

When Treaties Work: The Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes

Standing for Solidarity in an Age of Retreat

Trump is Coming for UNICEF

South Sudan is on the Brink of a Full-Blown Civil War

Trump's War on Women Comes to the UN

Trump's War on Women Comes to the UN

The US-Russia-Iran Alliance at the UN

Our Global Humanitarian System is Collapsing

How Trump's Attacks on The UN Population Fund Hurt Women Around the World

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When Treaties Work: The Mine Ban Treaty

Seismic Shift At The UN Following A Jaw-Dropping Vote On Ukraine

Seismic Shift At The UN Following a Jaw Dropping Vote On Ukraine

How Ted Turner Changed the World

Trump and Putin Just Ganged Up Against Ukraine at the UN. Here is How Every Country Voted

Ukraine is Losing Support at the United Nations

Trump's Anti-DEI Crusade Comes to the UN

Trump's Anti-DEI Crusade Comes For The United Nations

Has Trump Destroyed Our Defense Against Pandemics?

The View From Ukraine with The Wall Street Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov

The Destruction of USAID Threatens a Fragile Peace in Colombia

Congo in Crisis: What’s Driving the Violence and How Can it End?

What the Foreign Aid Freeze Means for the UN

Can the UN Stop the Violence in DR Congo? | How The US Foreign Aid Freeze Impacts the UN

The Death of USAID

Can The UN Survive Trump 2.0?

Trump Just Made America More Vulnerable to Ebola—Here’s How

Assessing the Impact of Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze | Jeremy Konyndyk

Trump 2.0 Will Accelerate China's Rise

What We Learned From Elise Stefanik's Confirmation Hearing

Trump's Decision to Withdraw from WHO Jeopardizes Global Health and American Safety

Going Live for Elise Stefanik's Confirmation Hearing

Better Know Trump's Foreign Policy Team

The Counterproductive Impact of a New Republican Effort to Punish the ICC

What to Expect at the UN in 2025

What to Expect at the UN in 2025

The Real World Consequences of Trump's Dumb Musings about Annexing Canada

The Real World Consequences of Trump's Dumb Musings about Annexing Canada

When Treaties Work: The Chemical Weapons Convention