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Security council ties that bind

The pragmatic approach and active diplomacy of Australia’s UN ambassador are paying huge dividends in the wake of MH17.

Read the full The Saturday Paper article here

Publication Date: Jul 26, 2014

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

Region/Country: East Asia, Europe

Program(s): Peace and Security

Topic(s): Crises, United Nations

The US and the international power structure: Reviewing 'Still Ours to Lead'

In Still Ours to Lead: America, Rising Powers, and the Tension Between Rivalry and Restraint, Brookings Senior Fellow and my CIC colleague Bruce Jones sets out a compelling analysis of the present global power structure.

Publication Date: Jun 19, 2014

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Elsina Wainwright

Region/Country: China, East Asia, Europe, Brazil, United States, South Asia

Topic(s): Emerging Powers, International Security

A Tough Week for Obama in Asia

United States President Barack Obama kicks off a visit to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines today, during which he'll seek to convey strong US support for allies and commitment to the Asia Pacific without derailing the US-China relationship.

Read the full Real Clear World article A Tough Week for Obama in Asia

Publication Date: Apr 23, 2014

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Elsina Wainwright

Region/Country: East Asia

Topic(s): South Asia

Still Ours to Lead

America, Rising Powers, and the Tension between Rivalry and Restraint

"What’s become clear to me is that while the rising powers--principally China, India, Brazil, but also Turkey, Indonesia, Korea and others--want to increase their influence and protect their interests, the United States still occupies a central place in their thinking and their strategies. And only the U.S. can help all these players forge an effective international order." —Bruce Jones

Publication Date: Mar 17, 2014

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

Region/Country: China, East Asia, Europe, Brazil, United States

Topic(s): Emerging Powers, International Security

Why Europe can’t leave Asia to the US

Can Europeans safely ignore rising tensions in the Asia-Pacific? Many in Europe now argue that, in the context of economic crisis and the US “pivot” to Asia, the European Union’s beleaguered member states should narrow their strategic focus to their troubled neighbourhood.

Read the full ECFR article here.

Publication Date: Jan 14, 2014

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

Region/Country: East Asia, Europe, South Asia

Program(s): Peace and Security

European Hard Power Hit by Eurozone Crisis

In this exclusive interview with ECSSR Website Richard Gowan, talks about a range of issues related to conflict prevention and resolution. Gowan also sheds light on the progress on United Nations reforms, EU’s peacekeeping ambitions, ongoing conflict in Syria and possibilities of conflagration in the Korean peninsula. The interview was conducted on the sidelines of ECSSR’s 18th Annual Conference – The Future Warfare in the 21st Century.

Publication Date: Apr 15, 2013

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

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

Program(s): Peace and Security

Topic(s): United Nations

North Korean Rights Abuses May Be Crimes Against Humanity

On March 10, Marzuki Darusman, the United Nations investigator who uncovered violations in the totalitarian state of North Korea, told the Human Rights Council that his eight-year probe had uncovered nine systematic patterns of abuse.

Publication Date: Mar 12, 2013

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

Region/Country: East Asia

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises, United Nations

Detect, Dismantle, and Disarm: IAEA Verification, 1992-2005

After the discovery of a covert nuclear program in Iraq in 1991, the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) role transformed from promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy to verifying compliance with nonproliferation agreements. Over the next decade, the nuclear programs of three other countries - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, South Africa, and Libya - further tested the IAEA's ability to locate nuclear weapons and dismantle them.

Publication Date: Mar 04, 2013

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Christine Wing, Fiona Simpson

Region/Country: East Asia, Middle East, Libya, South Africa

Topic(s): Global Governance, International Security

Back to Basics : The UN and crisis diplomacy in an age of strategic uncertainty

This report sets out to show how the UN can reinforce its utility and legitimacy in conflict prevention and mediation in a complex international environment. It draws on a series of case studies on conflict prevention for the NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC)—including analyses of the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and West Africa—which show how the UN’s engagement in the deterioration phases of a series of recent crises has prevented or reduced conflict, or at least has established a framework for later peace talks.

Publication Date: Jul 05, 2010

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Bruce Jones, Richard Gowan, Andrew Hart, Sara Batmanglich

Region/Country: East Asia, Latin America, Middle East, West Africa

Topic(s): Global Governance, United Nations

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies