Look, look at the screen looming up behind him. It's enormous. (As you probably guessed, the picture's from Vanity Fair).
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).
Closing the helicopter gap (on paper)
In January, I enjoyed 15 seconds of fame commenting on the shortage of helicopters for peace operations in The Economist (I'd already raised the issue on this...
Orwellian surveillance society not all good news for cops
Something for all our resilence+networks+technology-loving readers from Gothamist, a proper blog for normal people (well, New Yorkers, anyway): NYPD...
Death of a peace operation
So, farewell then the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), born after the two countries ended a massive war in 2000 and gently put down by a sorrowful...
“The whole world would fail”
After Jean-Marie Guéhenno's comments last week on the perils of Darfur, here's more plain speaking from a senior peacekeeper - in this case the Darfur...
Under the weather
We overlooked last month's Annual Disaster Statistical Review, but the numbers speak for themselves: In 2007, 414 natural disasters were reported. They killed...
Like watching a train wreck in… slow… motion…
Just when you thought it couldn't look much bleaker for peacekeeping, a reminder that it can: Sudan has again warned it cannot guarantee the safety of UN and...
Après moi, le déluge: Guéhenno looks ahead
So, it's not only me and my fellow-wonks who are worried about the state of peacekeeping. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, outgoing head of peace ops at the UN, pops up...
Soviet-style silly season scare story squished, still starts spat
While we while away the summer musing on fantasy cabinets, someone has more daring fantasies up their sleeve. A report in Izvestia that Russia wants to...
Peacekeeping: I’m not the only one in a panic
Hardly had I posted my take on the current peacekeeping crisis yesterday than Thorsten Benner and his colleagues at GPPi published this op-ed in the IHT: UN...
Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump?
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Midnight Juggernauts: the sound of Global Dashboard? *
It's a sad fact of life that very few rock bands address the sort of issues that we write about on this blog. The future of UN reform? With the admittedly...
Peacekeeping in crisis: exactly how bad is it?
The fact that I think UN (and quite a lot of non-UN) peacekeeping is in crisis will not come as news to regular readers. Indeed, a rapid search of my...
Hurrah! Karadzic arrested
Serbia has arrested Radovan Karadzic. Just as it was starting to look like the hunt for the former Yugoslavia's worst was going to peter out unfulfilled (and...
Sunday fashion special: electoral style!
Having blogged about American political TV adverts past and present, I'm now excited by some really alternative media: kerchiefs and light summer dresses. The...
You ARE a nice rebel, you can have a present!
I've spent much of the last month poking fun (with serious intent) at Irish EU peacekeepers in Chad praised by rebels for staying neutral during a shoot-out...
Obama machines, past and present
People who like Global Dashboard also tend to like proposals to streamline foreign ministries and sort out national security systems. Most probably rather...
“African ownership” strikes back
It's ten days since seven UN troops were killed in Darfur - today, one more has been killed. In between, there have been a series of events that raise big...
Globalisation and the death of the hot pot
Having just returned home to the U.S. after a long trip to Britain, I am naturally consoling myself with frequent readings of the expat section of the Daily...
What Global Dashboard has to learn from one of the most terrifying thinkers ever: a tribute to Herman Kahn
You don't have to believe that the end of the world is nigh to enjoy this blog, but it helps. A scan of recent posts throws up Alex on "life after the...
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