Browse Research and Commentary

Will reports of chemical weapons spur global action on Syria?

May 2, 2013, Salman Shaikh

Syria, Chemical Weapons, And The Intervention Question

April 29, 2013, Shadi Hamid

Is Obama’s Red Line a Green Light?

April 29, 2013, Salman Shaikh

Democracy, Human Rights and the Emerging Global Order

April 2013, Ted Piccone

Recurring Disasters: Are We Learning Lessons?

April 10, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris

What Future for the Central African Republic?

April 6, 2013, Julius Agbor and Michael Rettig

BRICS Leadership Will Be Tested by Syria

March 25, 2013, Salman Shaikh

The establishment of the [UN] commission [to look into North Korea's human rights abuses] reflects long overdue recognition that a human rights ‘emergency’ exists in North Korea. The commission of inquiry should not be seen as an end in itself but rather as part of a larger strategy to promote human rights in North Korea.

March 23, 2013, Roberta Cohen, Yonhap News Agency

North Korea Faces Heightened Human Rights Scrutiny

March 21, 2013, Roberta Cohen

UN Sanctions, North Korean Threats

March 7, 2013, Richard C. Bush III

Kenyans Head to the Polls - and a New Displacement Crisis?

February 26, 2013, Megan Bradley

It’s never easy to predict change in a society. Just remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the changes in Arab countries ― they were hardly foreseen. Continuing to chip away at the Kim regime and working to penetrate the information wall around North Korea could in time lead to change.

February 26, 2013, Roberta Cohen, The Korea Herald

Own the Goals: What the Millennium Development Goals Have Accomplished

March/April 2013, John McArthur

[U.S. support for a U.N. inquiry into human rights abuses in North Korea could prompt other nations] especially those on the fence, to come forward in support of the initiative.

February 20, 2013, Roberta Cohen, Washington Post

The (Tangled) Road Map to September's U.N. General Assembly Meeting on the Post-2015 Development Agenda

February 15, 2013, Allison Anderson

Try Temporary North Korea Sanctions

February 15, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon

In the Neighborhood: The Growing Role of Regional Organizations in Disaster Risk Management

February 2013, Elizabeth Ferris and Daniel Petz

Susan Rice and 21st Century Diplomacy

December 14, 2012, Bruce Jones

U.S. Must Step Forward to Stabilize Congo

December 11, 2012, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Tony Gambino

In Defense of Susan Rice—Again

December 10, 2012, Michael E. O'Hanlon

International Course on Law and Legal Protection in Natural Disasters

December 3, 2012

The U.N. Security Council and Prevention of Displacement

December 2012, Elizabeth Ferris and Sanjula Weerasinghe

U.S. Support for Mahmoud Abbas's U.N. Bid for Palestine Could Save Two-State Solution

November 29, 2012, Khaled Elgindy

In Defense of Susan Rice

November 29, 2012, Michael E. O'Hanlon

Challenges to Human Rights Information Gathering in North Korea

November 28, 2012, Roberta Cohen