December 14, 2018
The eyes of the world, and most certainly those of Yemen’s severely traumatized populous, have been fixed on the peace consultations in...
Opinion
September 23, 2016
As President Obama headed to the U.N. headquarters in New York yesterday, his last planned visit in his current capacity as head of state,...
blog
April 28, 2016
The United Nations’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry has recently raised allegations against the Syrian government, stating...
Reviews
January 21, 2016
The United States’ founders were taken with the idea that they were building a New Jerusalem. Rhetoric of a City on the Hill animated the...
blog
October 22, 2015
“What happened to Canada?” is a question I’ve heard often over the last several years, and one I’ve typically answered with either a shrug...
blog
October 1, 2015
Sometimes referred to by diplomatic staff as “hell-level week,” the opening of the General Assembly (UNGA) each year is marked by the...
Opinion
September 21, 2015
Just days after jubilantly celebrating the resignation and arrest of its former president, retired general Otto Perez Molina, approximately...
Conversations
March 22, 2015
Speaking before members of the international press gathered in Mogadishu on January 29, 2015, Philippe Lazzarini, United Nations...
Reportage
March 9, 2015
PHNOM PENH — Marathon efforts to prosecute Pol Pot's surviving henchmen have never been short on controversy. "Too late," "too long," and "...