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August 19, 2011

International Organizations
A "Global" War on Terror: Multilateral Achievements since 9/11

  A student lifts a placard as he and others line up to take part in a march to condemn the recent bomb attacks in the city (Danish Siddiqui/Courtesy Reuters).   As we approach the ten…

A "Global" War on Terror: Multilateral Achievements since 9/11

April 22, 2006

The BRICS lend, the US spends

How is that for brevity?  The world economy reduced to a single rhyme.   The BRICS are Brazil, Russia, India and China - Goldman's set of big emerging economies.     With oil at $75, they really shou…

January 18, 2009

Monetary Policy
Worry about a fall in China’s demand for the world’s goods, not a fall in China’s demand for Treasuries

Last week, Sam Jones of FT’s Alphaville wrote: If the Chinese economy collapses, or even slows dramatically, then the raison d’etre for the country’s huge FX reserves - as a sterilisation measure to…

August 5, 2020

Race and Ethnicity
“Viral Convergence”: Interconnected Pandemics as Portal to Racial Justice

In this piece (which is part of a special Just Security “Racing National Security” symposium), Catherine Powell argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a window into the pandemics of policing,…

Black Lives Matter Rally

August 25, 2011

International Organizations
UN Peacekeeping: Ready for Libya?

Indian U.N. peacekeepers patrol through a camp for people displaced by fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Finbarr O'Reilly/ Courtesy Reuters). With the United Nations Security Council (UN…

UN Peacekeeping: Ready for Libya?