To Save Us From Hell: Searching for Compromiso in Seville | Is Rafael Grossi Suddenly Radioactive?
The major Financing for Development Conference wrapped up in Seville last week with the so-called Compromiso de Sevilla, which commits countries to accelerating efforts to fund the Sustainable Develop...
7 Jul 202519min
How Trump's Aid Cuts Are Costing Lives in Sudan—The Largest Crisis on Earth
As of July 1, what remains of USAID's programming is being folded into the State Department. The independent agency, created 64 years ago to advance American values and support global humanitarian cau...
3 Jul 202523min
What the NATO Summit Tells Us About The Future of European Security
The leaders of NATO met in The Hague on June 25th for a rather truncated meeting with a limited agenda. Unlike recent NATO summits, this one did not focus much on the war in Ukraine, countering China,...
30 Jun 202518min
How the Israel-Iran-US War Forever Changed the Middle East
Will the ceasefire between Israel and Iran actually hold? How might Iran respond to the unprecedented American attacks on its nuclear program? And more broadly, how have events over the last two weeks...
26 Jun 202530min
How the US Bombing of Iran May Split the Republican Party
Donald Trump's decision to bomb Iran lays bare a major rift within Republican foreign policy. Until recently, the more isolationist "America First" wing seemed ascendant, sidelining the hawks. But tha...
22 Jun 202525min
Why The UN Oceans Summit Matters
From June 9th to 13th, some 15,000 participants—including more than 60 Heads of State and Government—convened in Nice, on France's Mediterranean coast, for a major UN-sponsored conference on oceans. S...
19 Jun 202521min
"They Have Decapitated the Iranian Military" - Will The Iran-Israel War Drag in the US?
After years of threats, the Israeli government launched a major attack overnight, targeting both Iran's nuclear program and several senior Iranian military and political leaders. At the time of writin...
13 Jun 202521min
Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Head of UN Peacekeeping, on Why It Still Matters—And What Happens If Funding Disappears
There are nearly 70,000 UN peacekeeping personnel serving in 11 missions around the world. My guest today, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, is in charge of them all. He has served as the United Nations Under-Secr...
12 Jun 202530min
