Treaties

Bilateral and multilateral mechanisms are disintegrating amid tech advances, and “grey zones” below military conflict thresholds are ripe for exploitation.

The Biden administration must create a system in which human rights and democracy policymaking is embedded and integrated in its decision-making machinery.

The Biden administration should use the March gathering to highlight policies or programs to advance gender equality at home and abroad.

The US has a historic opportunity to return to the country of its greatest post-Cold War triumph and mark its own homecoming to the international community.

This article is cross-posted at Lawfare.   In late October, the United States and Sudan reportedly signed a bilateral agreement “to resolve claims arising from the 1998…

On October 24, 2020, following Honduras’ ratification, the UN announced the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) would enter into force on January 22, 2021. Accompanying…

Whether informally quarantined in camps or formally confined in overcrowded detention centers, refugees and migrants in detention are extraordinarily vulnerable in a pandemic.…

For too long, too many people in the U.S. military, in government, and in the general public have not fully contemplated how disastrous using nuclear weapons was and could be.…

[Editor’s Note: This article is part of a Just Security series, COVID and International Law. All articles in the series can be found here.] COVID-19 continues to grow at…

Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons gains 50th signatory; schools face terror attacks in multiple countries; COVID-19 infections interrupt UN meetings; UN expresses concern…

Twelfth essay in a series of top experts exploring proposals to restore and promote nonpartisan principles of good government, public integrity, and the rule of law.

The US and other major nuclear powers tried to slow the momentum, but the treaty has already changed the conversation.