Last week Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund For Peace released their annual Fragile States Index. This could not have come at a better time.…
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Even though the Center has only been ‘live’ since January, and this website only operational since February, we’ve prepared our first ‘Annual’ Report. The Annual…
Leave a CommentNote: This guest post was written by Michael Curtin. Michael is a blogger for the Northern New Jersey Chapter of UNA-USA, and he’ll be joining…
Leave a CommentUnderstanding how present day events fit into the sweep of history is always a challenge. The BRICS economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa)…
Leave a CommentThe UN General Assembly’s Open Working Group recently released the ‘zero draft‘ of the Sustainable Development Goals. These are the follow-ons to the soon-to-be completed…
2 CommentsThe task before us is to make existing international organizations work more effectively. A recent survey by the FUNDS (Future UN Development System) project helps…
Leave a CommentThe world is a complicated place, and it can be a challenge to interpret new data as signifying continuity rather than change. A Wall Street…
Leave a CommentIn any bureaucracy, organizational documents are notable for what they say about an organization as well as what they don’t say. The International Monetary Fund’s…
Leave a CommentTwo pieces in the New York Times have provided some useful perspective on the state of the global debate about climate change. The first of…
Leave a CommentThe International Monetary Fund recently issued a call for civil society feedback on the forthcoming Triennial Surveillance Review. (For more on this read here). The…
Leave a CommentNB: The full article was first published on the Global Observatory In a new policy paper published by the International Peace Institute, Kristen Boon argues…
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