Multilateralism

Brazil, the Parties, and other stakeholders should ensure the issue of "nationally determined contribution" emission targets lie at the heart of COP 30.

A bottom-up norm-setting approach would rectify the concerns of agreeing to a global moratorium on solar radiation management deployment.

More than 130 world leaders just completed a week of meetings in New York for the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly. This high-level week, as it’s called,…

How the recent summit could spur long-overdue structural changes necessary for more inclusive, networked, and effective global governance.

While States face a common problem in regulating AI, approaches differ and prospects for global cooperation appear limited. 

Amid the tensions, the Biden administration can try to win back some goodwill with careful steps to bolster a fragile multilateral system.

Russia’s actions illustrate the issue of what to do when founding policies are used to prevent organizations from pursuing fundamental values.

States and international organizations must make the Responsibility to Protect a priority and integrate it into wider policy and programming.

Prevention and the responsibility to protect are subordinated to other UN agendas, and special advisers too often sidelined.

This arc reveals both the African Union’s strengths and weaknesses in stopping atrocity crimes, and what it might yet accomplish.

The failure of past counterterrorism policies and practice has led to unending cycles of violence.

Reinvigorating the atrocity prevention agenda requires focusing on accountability.