We don't just blog. Some of us edit books. Old school! Cambridge University Press has just published Cooperating for Peace and Security, a guide to all types...
Richard Gowan
Richard Gowan coordinates the International Security Institutions program at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University. He is also the UN Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and an associate of the Foreign Policy Center (London).
The UN University wants to be anarchy
The United Nations University Office in New York sends us an invite: The United Nations University Office at the UN, New York(UNU-ONY) is organizing a panel...
All we are saying is… assist countries emerging from conflict to achieve sustainable peace in a coordinated manner!
A press release from the UN... NEW YORK, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate the unifying spirit and 40th anniversary of the Plastic Ono Band's universal...
Party like it’s 1999 (posts)!
This is the 1,999th post ever on Global Dashboard. We'll leave #2,000 to David and Alex to mess up with some tedious factoid about how we're all about to die...
The EU’s cowboy (state)builders
This morning, ECFR published a new report by Daniel and me on the EU's efforts at civilian state-building from the Balkans to Afghanistan. This non-military...
EU in Africa: triumph of the bean-counters
OK, here's the EU's strategy for Somalia: (1) pay our African allies to put their troops in the line of fire; (2) cut off the money over accounting issues;...
The G7’s last gasp?
So you thought that the Pittsburgh G20 summit had buried the G7/G8? Not quite yet... Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg prime minister who chairs meetings...
Is the Atlantic widening again?
There's recently been a small flurry of pieces warning that transatlantic relations are starting to sour (again). First up, the Economist: A “flashing yellow...
U.S. Army to topple Obama?
John L. Perry, a right-wing columnist, knows things most of us don't: There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will intervene as a...
Blue Helmets, Brown Leaves
I recently blogged about UN peacekeepers' efforts to save the world by planting trees in places like Darfur and the Congo (I even featured on the New York...
Denim and the decline of the West
Time to catch up with the Global Market Review of the Denim and Jeanswear Industries - Forecasts to 2006, which we foolishly missed on its publication in May....
Twitter accounts of political giants (Michael Ignatieff has had some nice fish!)
Twitter, eh? Helps us relate to the great and good like never before. In times past, I would have spent the day vexed by the impossibility of knowing if...
Obama to woo world with massive poker tournament
Yesterday, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice gave a rather good speech at NYU on the Obama administration's multilateral agenda. The NYT has a good...
New media good for thinking, not tweeting
New York magazine offers some hope for people who like a sensible discussion, in a new profile of Barack Obama: Despite his agility in skipping from topic to...
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach him to fish… actually just give him a bloody fish
Bad news from South Sudan: At least 185 people - mostly women and children - have been killed in ethnic violence in South Sudan, officials say. Members of the...
Joe Biden shows off his mean left hook…
...while President Obama aims to resolve the Harvard race-policing row by getting everyone to sit on curiously low chairs.
The Siege of Chicago (2009 edition)
Ah, here is a familiar scene. Deserted streets, police barricades, stranded buses... the flotsam and jetsam of some mass upheaval, surely? Nope. It's just...
What Mark Malloch-Brown actually said: we need more foot patrols
In an obviously-rather-useful contribution to the ongoing controversy over what Lord Malloch-Brown told the Daily Telegraph about UK helicopters (or the lack...
Peacekeepers declare war on climate change, boy scouts in reserve
Oh Good Lord, what fresh lunacy is this? 22 July 2009 – United Nations peacekeepers are no strangers to working in some of the world’s most hazardous regions,...
Bad luck Washington, Franklin and Lafayette! Britain once again rules DC!!
Or, more specifically, we own DC's two Congress-obsessed all-politics papers: The Economist Group, which owns Roll Call, just bought Congressional Quarterly....
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