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Global CooperationCan One Unanimous UN Resolution Pave The Way for CEDAW Ratification?
Established in the United Nations Charter, way back in that post-war year of 1946, the Division for the Advancement of Women firmly...
Global CooperationNew START and Senate Processes: A Critique of Last Resort?
Stephen Rademaker's recent piece in the Washington Post is the latest in a series of offensives against the New START treaty with...
Tea Party foreign policy = U.N. bashing
While the Tea Party owes its origins to domestic concerns, a unified foreign policy has failed to emerge. Tea Partiers often find...
The Unified Security Budget: Getting the Most Bang for Our National Security Buck
As published in the Huffington Post Here's something you don't hear every day--a Secretary of Defense talking about reducing military spending. Yet...
The House, The Senate, and the World
As published in the Huffington Post: Thinking about sitting out the November elections because President Obama and Congress have let you down?...
Global CooperationTea Party Candidate Fears UN Bicycle Takeover. What’s next UFO’s?
Dan Maes, the leading GOP candidate for governor of Denver, came out against his rival Mayor John Hickenlooper over a bike sharing...
Peace & DisarmamentLessons from Hiroshima
August 6th marks the 65th anniversary of Hiroshima. The atomic bomb, dropped from an American B-29 war plane on the morning of...
Global JusticeThomas Jefferson, Arms Control, and the Horrors of War
By: Jeff Brooks In 1779, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to Patrick Henry to discuss the proper treatment of the British and...
New START vs. the Tea Party: What’s the Greatest Threat?
Written by Don Kraus for the Huffington Post What's more dangerous: the thousands of nukes that will still target U.S. and Russian...
Peace & DisarmamentCold War Kids: The Truth About the New START Treaty
Ideological diverse yet respected foreign policy experts and high-ranking military officials—Henry Kissinger, George P. Schultz, Richard Burt, Robert Gates Hillary Clinton, and...
Global JusticeThe world’s first presidential genocidaire?
Written by Ariela Blätter for Open Democracy The ICC's decision to reinstate three counts of genocide against President Bashir of Sudan is...