By Georgii Sandul The writer is a lawyer and the director of the NGO Labour Initiatives. International Politics and Society, the Global and European Policy Unit of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin, published this article. KYIV (IDN) — We, Ukrainians, are all living in a state of war. Along with Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, […]
Diplomacy Challenges: Sri Lanka at 75 (Part 2)
By H.M.G.S. Palihakkara The writer is a former Foreign Secretary during Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar’s tenure in office and one-time Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and New York. COLOMBO (IDN) — The proposed reforms in Sri Lanka cannot be ‘unleashed’ on a crisis-ridden people in a rapid-fire single burst like what […]
The NPT Review Cycle in Wartime
Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte The writer is Ambassador and former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. “Recalling that States must refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State and that the establishment and maintenance of […]
New START Noncompliance Highlights Need for Nuclear Abolition
By Ariana Smith The writer is the Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy NEW YORK (IDN) — The recent US allegation of Russian noncompliance with the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) cannot be adequately understood outside of the context of Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine. The Russian invasion, […]
US-Russia Nuclear Treaty in Danger of Breaking Down
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — The growing nuclear threats from Russia—the last one from President Vladimir Putin himself—have resulted in a negative fallout for a landmark treaty between two of the world’s major nuclear powers. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START 1) between the US and the then Soviet Union—on the reduction and […]
Is Europe Sliding into Third World War?
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* COIMBRA, Portugal (IDN) — A new-old ghost is hovering over Europe—war. The most violent continent in the world in terms of deaths in warfare for the last hundred years (not to go back any further and include the deaths suffered by Europe during religious wars and the deaths inflicted by […]
Russia Urged to Comply with New START Inspections
By Arms Control Association (ACA) WASHINGTON DC (IDN) — Experts from the Arms Control Association called upon Russia to comply with its obligations to allow for on-site inspections to verify compliance with the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) and to engage in further nuclear disarmament diplomacy with the United States.
Crossing Russia’s Red Lines on NATO Expansion
U.S. Officials Were Aware of the Risks Viewpoint by Branko Marcetic This article is distributed by Globetrotter in partnership with the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord. Branko Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. CHICAGO (IDN) — Nearly a year in, the war in […]
Beyond the ‘Blue Curtain of Secrecy’ in Croatia
Conversation with the Head of the Croatian Criminal Police By Aurora Weiss VIENNA (IDN) — The esprit de corps, the misunderstood sense of togetherness, means that the police officers cover for one another. In such a culture, valuing loyalty over integrity facilitates misconduct by keeping it concealed. That’s why The United Nations Convention against Corruption […]
South Korea Vows to Go Nuclear Amid Growing Threats from North
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — As nuclear tensions continue to spread across the Korean Peninsula, South Korea has for the first time declared “nuclear weapons as a policy option”,—triggering the threat of a potentially new nuclear power looming in the horizon. South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol is quoted as saying that if […]