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December 30, 2013

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Remembering Ten World Figures Who Died in 2013

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

The sun sets over Clifton Beach in Cape Town, South Africa. (Mike Hutchings/Courtesy Reuters)

March 26, 2014

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Hello (Ciao), Matteo Renzi: Prime Minister of Italy

When President Barack Obama stops in Rome tomorrow he will be meeting with a politician who can match his own meteoric rise to power: Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi. Last month the thirty-nine-y…

Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi arrives to lead a news conference at Chigi palace in Rome. (Remo Casilli/Courtesy Reuters)

December 1, 2014

Global
Ten Historical Anniversaries of Note in 2015

As 2014 comes to a close, here are ten notable historical anniversaries to mark in 2015.

Nelson-Mandela-Anniversaryy

June 11, 2012

Defense and Security
Ask the Experts: Preventing Sexual Violence

Last week, forty members of Congress re-introduced the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA). As Amnesty International’s Cristina Finch explains, the I-VAWA “would coordinate and improve …

Sexual violence survivors

December 29, 2014

Global
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2014

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

World-Figures-Obituaries