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Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa
(2015)Ever since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, there have been complaints that the Declaration is not culturally sensitive. In 1981, a group of Islamic scholars proposed the Universal Islamic ... -
Humanitarian Aid under Stress: Assessing the Role of NGOs
(2019)Humanitarian NGOs currently face many challenges that inhibit their ability to deliver aid and place the humanitarian principles under stress. The politicization of aid by both donor and host governments has influenced the ... -
The International Criminal Court: Confronting challenges on the path to justice
(2013)Since the Rome Statute entered into force in 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC or the Court) has encountered many challenges, undermining its legitimacy and credibility in the international community. This report ... -
International Cybersecurity: De-escalating tensions in a digital Era
(2019)Within the last decade, nation-states and their populations have experienced an exponential rise in cyberattacks against critical infrastructure. Cyberattacks are an attractive addition to traditional warfare for adversaries, ... -
Ippen Dron, All of Us Together: A collection of Tools to Address U.S. Nuclear Colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
(2017)We are a group of 19 students in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at The University of Washington. We have dedicated 10 weeks to looking at the many wrongs produced by the U.S. government's nuclear ... -
Land and Livelihoods: NGOs, Conflict, and Extraction in Peru
(2015)Examining the events that occurred over a decade ago in Tambogrande, Piura - notable for its successful community-led revolt against a large mining corporation - allows for retrospection on Oxfam America’s past efforts ... -
Making trans-Atlantic relations work for Europeans
(2019)For more than six decades, the transatlantic alliance has provided security and prosperity to the people of Europe and the United States. The United States and European Union’s shared commitment to the most fundamental ... -
Managing Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth: Can Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth Be Used to Rebuild the Economy?
(2015)From 2005 to 2009, the US Geological Survey performed a series of remote sensing surveys in Afghanistan in an attempt to quantify the nation’s mineral resource potential. Their findings stand to significantly transform the ... -
Managing Decline in a Turbulent World: Designing a New Security Strategy for the European Union
(2014)The European Union is at a turning point in its approach vis-à-vis security and international relations. The 2003 European Security Strategy (ESS) laid out a vision for the EU as an important player on the global stage, ... -
Managing Large Scale Marine Reserves: Policy Recommendations for the Global Legacy Ocean Campaign
(2015)Over the course of just a few generations, man has gained for the first time the ability to change the oceans – harnessing technologies that allow intensive marine extraction and dramatically increasing anthropogenic ... -
Maritime Security on the Asia-Pacific: A Navigational Map for the New U.S. Administration
(2017)Maritime security in the Asia-Pacific entails “traditional” security concerns such as naval power, and “non-traditional” security issues such as piracy, climate change and fisheries depletion. This task force evaluates ... -
Melting Boundaries: Rethinking Arctic Governance
(2011)Global warming has triggered fundamental ecological changes to the Arctic landscape. As the sea ice melts, greater access to lucrative natural resources and new shipping lanes is intensifying economic and political interest ... -
NATO and Russia: Strengthening the Alliance and Improving Resilience
(2018)The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Russian Federation, which will be re-ferred to in this paper as Russia, have a long history of contention that stems from the Cold War and is present to this day. After ... -
NATO: Building resiliency and integrity against Russian hybrid warfare threats
(2019)Hybrid threats are not a new concept. However, the resurgence of an aggressive Russia has led to an increase in dangerous activity and the practice of new techniques. Hybrid threats put NATO in a complicated position as ... -
Negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
(2014)The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) currently being negotiated between the United States and the European Union stands to be the largest free trade agreement ever created. The comprehensive trade and ... -
North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Understanding the Threat, Avoiding War5, Crafting Future Options
(2018)Since its first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has progressed rapidly and defiantly toward its goal of becoming a nuclear weapons state able to reach the continental US with its warheads. Despite many attempts at ... -
Opportunities and Challenges in the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region
(2019)This Task Force focuses on three key areas that U.S. policies have to address in order to capitalize on opportunities and meet challenges in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region: 1. Political issues that require the U.S. to increase ... -
Partner and Strategic Competitor: Evaluating the EU’s Shifting Relationship with China
(5/15/2020)China has risen to become both a prominent competitor and collaborator to the European Union (EU). The EU’s predominant concern in this relationship centers around China’s increasing economic engagement through investment ...