Diplomacy
Just Security’s expert authors offer analysis of diplomacy and its role in addressing global challenges, from armed conflicts to international crises and more. Our coverage includes U.S. foreign policy, international organizations, and multilateral diplomacy related to critical global issues.
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Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Shortage of Specifics Complicates Search for Solutions
As scholars debate how international law applies in this conflict, the lack of detail makes it hard to know what is taking place on the ground.
We Cannot Condone the Myanmar Government’s Lies with Silence
The façade that the Myanmar government is trying to keep up is finally starting to erode, as two Myanmar Army soldiers confess to their involvement in massacres, rape, and other…
The UK’s Withdrawal from the EU and the UK’s Internal Market Bill
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of pieces that will explore the Internal Market Bill and its implications for international law. There is a lively debate underway…
Think Beyond the Beltway — Bring Mayors and Governors to the Foreign Policy Table
States, regions, and cities are already on the frontlines, as in the pandemic. The federal government should support these contacts for the global future.
The 116th Congress’s Record on International Human Rights: The Good, the Bad, and the Unfinished Business
Action and inaction on Uyghurs, Yemen, the Rohingya, asylum seekers, Venezuela, and more highlight the crises facing the next Congress.
Absence of US Diplomacy on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Risks a Wider War
If the war were limited to Azerbaijan and Armenia, the world might be forgiven for sitting this out. But Turkey, Russia, Iran and others are in deep, too.
National Security at the United Nations This Week (Oct. 9 – 16)
Russia and China elected to UN Human Rights Council; Saudi Arabia loses out The United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council held secret ballot elections to fill 15 vacant seats…
The President and Immigration Law Series: Presidential Power, Migration Management, and Foreign Affairs
Next in our series on The President and Immigration Law, former CBP commissioner and Assistant Secretary of DHS Alan Bersin argues that borders – traditionally viewed as lines…
Estrangement Over Engagement: How the Trump Administration is Bucking Bipartisan Human Rights Diplomacy at the UN
The practice of the Trump administration turning its back on rights at the United Nations goes well beyond the Human Rights Council.
Trump’s Executive Order on the ICC is Illegal, Not Just Shameful
Significant First Amendment concerns are raised by the administration's sanctions against the International Criminal Court and against those who support the ICC's work.
Amnesty International Calls for India to Lift Account Freeze to Resume Vital Human Rights Work
Senior US officials traveling to India this month should urge the immediate lifting of the account freeze and press India to guarantee rights of civil society organizations to…
National Security at the United Nations This Week (Oct. 2 – 9)
WFP wins the Nobel Peace Prize; new PM appointed in Mali; conflict continues in Nagorno-Karabakh; and countries split on China's human rights record.