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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An Exercise in Doublespeak: Pompeo’s Flawed “Unalienable Rights” Commission
The panel's report clearly seeks to provide a foundation for a regressive, harmful approach to human rights and foreign policy.
The Rohingya Genocide and the ICJ: The Role of the International Community
(Editors Note: This article is part of a special Just Security forum on the ongoing Gambia v. Myanmar litigation at the International Court of Justice and ways forward.) When it…
Politically Motivated Prosecutions Part II: Refuse, Report, Resign
In Part II of this series, Kristy Parker and Erica Newland explain how DOJ's career prosecutors should respond when they become aware of, or are asked to participate in, politically…
Getting Serious About Protecting Health Care in War
After years of indifference to examining whether its rules of engagement and other operational directives and practices contribute to the scourge of violence against health workers,…
Politically-Motivated Prosecutions Part I: Legal Obligations and Ethical Duties of Prosecutors
AG Barr is poised to weaponize criminal prosecutions. In part one of a two-part series, former DOJ attorneys Kristy Parker and Erica Newland explain how politically motivated prosecutions…
The Best Way to Improve on New START Is By Extending It
An extension of New START would provide the United States the time and space to negotiate a follow-on arms control accord with Russia, China, and other nuclear powers.
National Security at the United Nations This Week (July 17-24)
(Editor’s Note: This is the latest in Just Security’s weekly series keeping readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,…
Myanmar and the ICJ: Ways Forward
In August 2017, Myanmar’s military carried out a brutal campaign of murder, rape and other abuses against the country’s Rohingya Muslims. These so-called “clearance operations”…
What Myanmar Is and Is Not Doing to Protect Rohingyas from Genocide
In August 2017, the desperate plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims grabbed headlines when the military’s brutal campaign of murder, rape and other abuses forced more than 740,000…
The UN Cannot Live on Past Laurels: The Time for Courageous Leadership on Anti-Black Racism Is Now
The U.N. and its specialized agencies must take action to redress anti-Black racism within and beyond its institutional walls.
USAID Has Suspended Aid to 80 Percent of Yemenis: An Appalling Abuse of Humanitarian Principles
USAID has suspended most aid for Yemenis living in territory controlled by the Houthi authorities in Sana’a. The suspension blocks $73 million in ongoing assistance and any additional…
The Caesar Sanctions Help Reinforce Norms Enshrined in International Law
Raising questions about the potential harmful effects of sanctions on civilians is an honorable task. As is ensuring that the sanctions meted out by the United States are backed…