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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).
Osama Bin Laden believes everything he reads on Global Dashboard
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Is Obama using the UN to launch a coup in Canada?
Don't Barack Obama and Canadian opposition chief Michael Ignatieff look like a natural pair of left-leaning, book-writing fans of global governance? The...
Afghanistan: the Michigan State University option
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Going ballistic: how China can deter the U.S.
Foreign Affairs has just published a fascinating short essay by Seth Cropsey online: While visiting Japan in late August, Admiral Robert Willard, the leader...
Holy Conservation Effort, Bat Ki-moon!
Somehow, with all the excitement of the UN General Assembly last week, I missed this press release: 22 September 2010 – The United Nations and partners today...
“These diplomats are absolute scum.”
The New York Post has by far the best story of UN week in NYC: New York cops found themselves in the middle of an international incident Thursday night after...
Is Ban Ki-moon’s second term already secure?
Yesterday, the Managing Global Insecurity project hosted an event in New York on the U.S. and UN. You can read a transcript or watch a video online. The...
Can these men reform the UN?
Bruce Jones and I have just published a short piece on the Brookings website pointing out that (i) there's a growing sense that UN reform, and especially...
Gordon Geldof?
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The new facebook phenomenon: the Center on International Cooperation
NYU's Center on International Cooperation - where I'm an associate director and Alex and David are fellows - has launched a facebook page. Access it here for...
Why can’t the EU crack the UN?
This week, a resolution granting the EU a special status at the UN was postponed by a vote of 76 states to 71 (the rest abstained or didn't vote). European...
European Dental Command: DENTCOM 1
Just occasionally, the sheer scale of the U.S. military system catches you by surprise. Like when you read this: Col. William Bachand assumed command of the...
Andrew Mitchell’s insight about aid
Having quickly blogged about UK development minister Andrew Mitchell's speech about conflict and development earlier today, I've caught up on responses from...
Americans: bunch of UN-loving wimps
The BBC has a good summary of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' latest "Global Views" survey of U.S. public opinion on international affairs. The main...
Andrew Mitchell goes to war
Andrew Mitchell, the British development minister, has just given a well-argued speech about the need to "spend more of the UK’s aid programme in conflict and...
Defining the UN-sphere
I've just returned from a very interesting presentation at the International Peace Institute (of movie fame). Christoph Mikulaschek was outlining the first...
High-level misery at the UN? Blame me!
Has an office away-day ever gone as badly wrong as the recent policy retreat for Ban Ki-moon and top UN officials in Alpbach, Austria (above)? Everyone is...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the UN…
It's time, the Associated Press reports, for multilateralism with teeth: UNITED NATIONS — They have the scars and missing limbs that make it hard to forgive,...
Education after the apocalypse
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