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Everything You Need to Know About the 2013 UN General Assembly

Everything You Need to Know About the 2013 UN General Assembly
As heads of state and national delegations descend on New York City for the 68th UN General Assembly meeting, New Yorkers are dreading the annual, massive traffic meltdown on the East Side. The chaos in the streets surrounding the UN’s 18-acre site will resemble the difficult – sometimes outright uncomfortable – situations some members will face inside. The…
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Unchecking the 'Women's Issues' Box

Unchecking the 'Women's Issues' Box
As a security sector reform expert who splits her time between educating the next generation and advocating for more women in global peace and security processes, I see a disconnect between the language of past generations and the need to advance a more meaningful discussion about inclusion. My students and peers don’t want to talk about women’s…
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Think Service, Not Suicide

Think Service, Not Suicide
"There is nothing new about combat stress. I suspect that if one had gone around the stoa in Athens in 485 B.C., there would have been people who were homeless and in distress who were veterans of the Battle of Marathon." - The Earl of Onslow From Herotodus to Hemingway, soldiers real and fictional have…
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Liberia, a remarkable African success story, still needs help

Liberia, a remarkable African success story, still needs help
Liberia's civil war ended 10 years ago, closing one of the most brutal chapters in human history. One in 4 Liberians was displaced or killed. Instances of cannibalism epitomized the inhumanity as Liberia became an archetype of anarchy, greed, and evil. Today, Liberia may be the most remarkable postconflict success story of the modern era…
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Do-it-yourself foreign policy

Do-it-yourself foreign policy
Last week's landmark agreement between China and California to cooperate on economic ventures that tackle climate change was more than the first-ever accord between China and a state government. It was a concrete example of the flattening of foreign policy, which is moving from something governments do on behalf of "regular people," to something that…
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Clean Energy Gets an Unlikely Ally: Military Veterans

Clean Energy Gets an Unlikely Ally: Military Veterans
This summer, Congress voted to cut funding for renewable energy and energy efficiency research by half. At the same time, it voted to slash the Department of Energy’s advanced energy projects agency by 80 percent. Yet, just down the road at the Pentagon, another set of leaders are taking a clear stance on the issue—not with rhetoric,…
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