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China, Russia return to UN Rights Council

China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Cuba won seats on the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, despite fierce criticism of their records from rights campaigners.

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Publication Date: Nov 12, 2013

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan

Region/Country: China, Europe, Latin America, Middle East

Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises, United Nations

China Offers 500 Troops to UN Mali Force:Envoys

China has offered to send more than 500 soldiers to the UN force seeking to contain Islamist militants in Mali in what would be its biggest contribution to UN peacekeeping. The move could be a bid to overcome tensions with the West over the Syria conflict and to strengthen its relations in Africa, where it is a major buyer of oil and other resources, diplomats and experts said.

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Publication Date: May 23, 2013

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan

Region/Country: China, Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

Topic(s): Crises, Fragile States, United Nations

US-China Study Group on G-20 Reform

In late 2011, the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, the Center for American Progress, and the Stanley Foundation formed a study group of US and Chinese experts, including CIC Director Bruce Jones, to evaluate the role of the G-20 in the US-China bilateral relationship as well as how the relationship influences the G-20. After meeting for two conferences over the course of 2012, the group reached consensus on a set of recommendations to improve the efficacy of this important body.

Publication Date: Mar 11, 2013

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Bruce Jones

Region/Country: China, United States

Topic(s): Emerging Powers, G8 and G20, Global Governance

Diplomatic Fallout: China’s Crisis-Management Crisis

Does China have any real interest in cooperating on international crisis management with the West?

Read the full World Politics Review article here.

Publication Date: Mar 11, 2013

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan

Region/Country: China, Europe, Middle East, Syria

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Topic(s): International Security, United Nations

Diplomatic Fallout: Obama, Kerry Face Global Diplomacy Shortage

History may be about to play a nasty trick on the Obama administration. The diplomatic renaissance in the U.S. seems to be coinciding with a worrying decline in interest in diplomacy among other powers.

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Publication Date: Jan 07, 2013

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan

Region/Country: China, Europe, Middle East, United States

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Topic(s): Global Governance, International Security

Engagement on Development and Security: New Actors, New Debates

In the past several years, key governments and multilateral institutions have devoted considerable effort to the task of more effectively integrating development and security policy responses to the related challenges of countries affected by conflict, post-conflict peacebuilding, and conflict prevention. The looming deadline of the Millennium Development Goals, has focused attention on this important nexus and the near impossibility of crisis- and conflict-affected states achieving these goals unless development and security is more effectively integrated.

Publication Date: Sep 05, 2011

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Megan Gleason-Roberts, WPS Sidhu, Bruce Jones

Region/Country: China, East Asia, Brazil, India, South Africa

Topic(s): Fragile States, G8 and G20, International Security, Peace Operations

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies