The world is full of endemic, intractable problems that we as a rich developed nation are asked to help solve: poverty, hunger, health problems, inequality, and more. Our efforts to address these problems through aid have had mixed results. Sometimes progress emerges, sometimes the same progress is reversed, and often it seems all our aid […]
Category: Global Policy Studies & International Security
We are approaching the 5-year anniversary of the creation of the Human Rights Council, a new human rights body within the U.N. intended to correct the shortcomings of its predecessor, the Commission on Human Rights. This week, an open-ended working group will hold its first session in Geneva to review the work of the Human […]
A word of praise is in order for the Nobel Peace Prize committee. Two weeks ago they awarded the honor to Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident currently serving an 11-year prison term for having the audacity to think that China should afford its citizenry basic human rights and freedoms. Some say this year’s recipient is […]
Twenty-one million people. Sixty-two thousand square miles of land. These figures have meant little to the international community, but for Pakistan it means unprecedented destruction which has rolled back its already limited development by years. To put these figures in perspective, the floods in Pakistan have affected an area larger than England and displaced a […]
Dialectica host Sanjeet Deka discusses ongoing Middle East peace talks with Jesse Sampson and C. P. Smith. The panel discusses the likelihood the peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians will succeed and identify important factors to consider in the current debate. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/114227420%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-ZAPuw” params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]
The international sound and fury over the Pakistani floods has died down – and yet, flood victims still face a serious crisis. Most notably, the health crisis associated with the flooding has only recently begun to unfold, and yet the international aid and attention just is not there the way it was in the very […]
This week on Dialectica: Producer C. P. Smith and host Selina Smith present the second in a two-part series on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Part II reviews the changes in NATO since the demise of the Soviet Union as well as the challenges NATO must manage to remain a relevant international defense organization. Special […]
This week on Dialectica: Producer C. P. Smith and host Selina Smith present the first in a two-part series on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Part I reviews NATO’s historical context as well as the challenges NATO is facing. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/114240054%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-Lw1jB” params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]