Over on "The Internationalist", a welcome new blog from CFR, Stewart Patrick argues that the G8 is back after a few years in the doldrums. His post is...
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).
Explaining the EU’s Libyan no-show
Two months ago the EU Council mandated a military mission called EUFOR Libya to help get aid to Libyan citizens and refugees - but only if the UN asked for...
Fukuyama’s post-Western, pro-Western world history
Francis Fukuyama has got a lot of attention for his new book The Origins of Political Order. He's still so closely associated with having announced the "end...
Does insult-based NGO advocacy work?
When you want something done in your office, like fixing a broken chair, how do you go about it? Do you go to the administrator responsible and ask...
What’s the point of the G8?
It's G8-time again! Sadly, not all the leaders who've turned up to recent G8 summits - like the guy on the right, seen at the Italian-hosted meeting in 2009...
Europe’s silly case for the IMF leadership
Imagine that you ran out of money, and all your friends were nearly bankrupt. Would you then go to the nearest outlet of HSBC or Citibank and demand to be...
Unsolicited career advice for Michael Ignatieff
I have a short piece over at The Mark today about what Michael Ignatieff should do, now that running Canada is off the cards: Michael Ignatieff, off to teach...
The EU: “strategic suburbia”?
I'm flattered that David Miliband has quoted me in speech on Europe he gave in Poland. The former Foreign Secretary believes that "America’s attention today...
Strauss-Kahn arrested!
Read the less than family-friendly details here.
Diplomats and the danger of leeks
Working through the website of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to gather information for CIC's annual Review of Political Missions, I...
Ban Ki-moon: democrat and phone pest
Here's a bleakly amusing extract from a speech by Ban Ki-moon in Sofia: Just before coming to Sofia, I spoke with President al-Assad of Syria. This was my...
Ignatieff’s endearing farewell
So, it wasn't a great week for Michael Ignatieff, what with the catastrophic Liberal performance in Canada's elections. But he's got a new job at the...
The UN speaks: let’s be friends!
Earlier this week, the UN General Assembly voted to give the EU an "enhanced observer status" in its deliberations. This is a relief to European diplomats,...
Libya: time for an Islamic Peacekeeping Force?
In a New York Times op-ed earlier this week, retired U.S. general James Dubik reiterated the need for some sort of post-conflict peacekeeping force in Libya:...
India: the super-prudent superpower?
Over at Mint, my colleague W.P.S. Sidhu reflects on the BRICS summit in Sanya, where the big non-Western powers were in a non-interventionist mood... While...
Ban and Cathy: soulmates?
How did the EU and UN go from being run by these guys... ...to their current leaders? Having written a fair bit about the UN's Ban Ki-moon and EU's Catherine...
Libya: are the BRICs wasting a good crisis?
My post earlier today about whether or not rising powers like Brazil, India and China might help mount a UN peace operation in post-Gaddafi Libya has drawn...
Any volunteers for peacekeeping in Libya? (No, Richard Gowan, No!)
Yesterday, I published a piece on "securing a peaceful resolution to the Libyan crisis" for World Politics Review. It starts from some pretty uncontroversial...
Abidjan: the UN’s quagmire?
Peacekeeping-watchers are aflutter over the news that UN peacekeepers in Côte d'Ivoire have decided to take offensive actions against Laurent Gbagbo and his...
Ban Ki-moon 2.0?
A few weeks ago, David Bosco and I had a rapid-fire exchange (look here, here and here) over how Ban Ki-moon measures up to Kofi Annan as UN...
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