Sep 11, 2018
Jo Vearey
SAIIA

This explores the potential risks associated with the blurring of global migration governance and health security agendas in a region associated with high levels of population mobility, communicable, and non-communicable diseases.

Sep 10, 2018
Gilang Kembara
CSIS

The peaceful resolution and stability of the South China Sea is of utmost importance. This project seeks to find ways and means to bridge out the differences between claimant states and open paths of cooperation through the recommendations made.

Sep 06, 2018
Aldo Chircop, Meinhard Doelle, and Ryan Gauvin
CIGI

This investigates the international law and policy challenges to the determination of the shipping industry’s contribution to climate change mitigation efforts.

Sep 04, 2018
Johannes Thimm
SWP

The asymmetry in NATO contributions between the United States and Europe is no accident, Johannes Thimm writes. Europeans should not be too alarmed about President Trump’s threats to withdraw from the alliance—and instead follow their own priorities.

Aug 24, 2018
Sam Roggeveen
Lowy

Western democracies and their center parties are under threat, as the public becomes disengaged and political elite struggles to maintain their influence.

Aug 22, 2018
Eileen Pittaway and Linda Bartolomei
CIGI

This paper addresses the international refugee regime’s failure to address the protection needs of refugee women and girls and to promote gender equality in policy and service provision.

Aug 22, 2018
Jane McAdam and Walter Kälin
Lowy

This discusses one of the significant breakthroughs in the Global Compact on Migration: the recognition that climate change, disasters and environmental degradation can drive people to leave their homes.

Aug 21, 2018
Ali Wayne
Lowy

This analyzes the likeliness of a U.S.-Russian alliance against the rise of China, and concludes it is unlikely because of the growing strategic imbalance between Moscow and Beijing and an inconsistent Trump foreign policy.

Aug 21, 2018
Oliver Meier
SWP

This examines the decision to expand the mandate of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which paves the way to identify those responsible for attacks. However, the additional transparency risks politicizing the organization.

Aug 20, 2018
Bushra Ebadi
CIGI

As artificial intelligence becomes a key policy issue, Bushra Ebadi argues that global cooperation is needed. Unless AI policies are developed in a collaborative environment, AI will reinforce norms of competition and conflict.