The United Nations is NOT a Dirty Word
The U.S. has played a formative role in starting the United Nations, and it is a crucial tool for diplomacy and security....
Citizens for Global Solutions
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CGS is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-partisan organization for more than 75 years and has brought together a diverse collective of individuals and organizations with a common goal of a unified world predicated upon peace, mutual understanding, human rights, and the rule of law.
Law of the Sea Digest
The Senate won't move on the Law of the Sea until after the August recess. Holding hearings on the Convention this month,...
Prosecuting Genocide
A few years ago I was talking to a former high level official from the Clinton Administration about Pol Pot. Specifically we...
Senate to take up Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill after recess
Yesterday it was revealed that the Senate will take up the FY 2008 Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill after the August recess. This...
Ban’s Darfur Moment (With More to Come)
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon meets with President Bush today to discuss (over the din of Iraq) the situation in Darfur. Mr....
UN Emergency Peace Service: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
For the past four weeks or so I've been meeting extensively with Congressional staff about a proposed UN Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS)....
A Modest Proposal
Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson ran an intriguing piece yesterday worth mentioning. In Global Safeguards for a Global Economy he suggests a...
Cheney at the Center of Torture Policy
The WP blog carries an important piece from Gellman and Becker titled "Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power." It highlights how the...
Getting the Ball rolling on a UN Emergency Peace Service
I am writing from the newly painted intern office to say that we are at it again. For the past week we...
A Fatally Flawed Approach to Foreign Policy
Detached from reality; surely that is the only explanation for the conduct of the member of Congress and/or their staffer when they...
Levin: Lincoln’s Example for Iraq
As you may have gathered from some of my previous writings, I am a native of Detroit, Michigan. Though my wife and...
The Other “Surge”
A reader at The Washington Note pointed out that yesterday was World Refugee Day. To mark the occasion, the UN High Commission...