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Still Ours to Lead

America, Rising Powers, and the Tension between Rivalry and Restraint

"What’s become clear to me is that while the rising powers--principally China, India, Brazil, but also Turkey, Indonesia, Korea and others--want to increase their influence and protect their interests, the United States still occupies a central place in their thinking and their strategies. And only the U.S. can help all these players forge an effective international order." —Bruce Jones

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Mar 17, 2014
Bruce Jones
China, East Asia, Europe, Brazil, United States
Emerging Powers, International Security

Why Europe can’t leave Asia to the US

Can Europeans safely ignore rising tensions in the Asia-Pacific? Many in Europe now argue that, in the context of economic crisis and the US “pivot” to Asia, the European Union’s beleaguered member states should narrow their strategic focus to their troubled neighbourhood.

Read the full ECFR article here.

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Jan 14, 2014
Richard Gowan
East Asia, Europe, South Asia
Prevention and Peacebuilding

European Hard Power Hit by Eurozone Crisis

In this exclusive interview with ECSSR Website Richard Gowan, talks about a range of issues related to conflict prevention and resolution. Gowan also sheds light on the progress on United Nations reforms, EU’s peacekeeping ambitions, ongoing conflict in Syria and possibilities of conflagration in the Korean peninsula. The interview was conducted on the sidelines of ECSSR’s 18th Annual Conference – The Future Warfare in the 21st Century.

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Apr 15, 2013
Richard Gowan
East Asia, Europe, Middle East, Syria
Prevention and Peacebuilding
United Nations

North Korean Rights Abuses May Be Crimes Against Humanity

On March 10, Marzuki Darusman, the United Nations investigator who uncovered violations in the totalitarian state of North Korea, told the Human Rights Council that his eight-year probe had uncovered nine systematic patterns of abuse.

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Mar 12, 2013
Richard Gowan
East Asia
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies
Humanitarian Crises, United Nations

Detect, Dismantle, and Disarm: IAEA Verification, 1992-2005

After the discovery of a covert nuclear program in Iraq in 1991, the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) role transformed from promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy to verifying compliance with nonproliferation agreements. Over the next decade, the nuclear programs of three other countries - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, South Africa, and Libya - further tested the IAEA's ability to locate nuclear weapons and dismantle them.

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Mar 04, 2013
Christine Wing, Fiona Simpson
East Asia, Middle East, Libya, South Africa
Global Governance, International Security

Back to Basics : The UN and crisis diplomacy in an age of strategic uncertainty

This report sets out to show how the UN can reinforce its utility and legitimacy in conflict prevention and mediation in a complex international environment. It draws on a series of case studies on conflict prevention for the NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC)—including analyses of the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and West Africa—which show how the UN’s engagement in the deterioration phases of a series of recent crises has prevented or reduced conflict, or at least has established a framework for later peace talks.

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Jul 05, 2010
Bruce Jones, Richard Gowan, Andrew Hart, Sara Batmanglich
East Asia, Latin America, Middle East, West Africa
Global Governance, United Nations
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

The US, Europe and Asia's Rising Multilateralists

Richard Gowan contributed a chapter on multilateral diplomacy to a new report from the EU Institute for Security Studies on the US, EU and Asia here

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Dec 18, 2012
Richard Gowan
East Asia
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies
Emerging Powers, United Nations

Political Missions 2012

The Annual Review of Global Peace Operations and the Review of Political Missions have evolved into the Global Peace Operations Review, an interactive web-portal presenting in-depth analysis and detailed data on military peacekeeping operations and civilian-led political missions by the United Nations, regional organizations, and ad-hoc coalitions. The website can be accessed here Global Peace Operations Review

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Dec 17, 2012
Center on International Cooperation, Megan Gleason-Roberts, Richard Gowan, Alischa Kugel
Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
International Security, Peace Operations
Prevention and Peacebuilding

Weapons Proliferation And Sanctions: Future Opportunities – Analysis

Sanctions imposed against Iran and North Korea have failed to curb both states' nuclear programs. Senior Fellow, W.P.S Sidhu argues that the key to more effective sanction regimes may lie with talks that cover a broader range of issues, alongside sanctions that have been endorsed by the entire international system.

Read the full Eurasia Review article here

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Nov 10, 2012
WPS Sidhu
East Asia, Middle East
International Security, Transnational Threats, United Nations

Peace Operations

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