The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Becomes International Law Mark Leon Goldberg January 19, 2021 A treaty to ban the use of nuclear weapons becomes international law on January 22, 2021. This is the date the treaty will enter into force, having secured the requisite number of ratifications from countries a...
The Siege of the US Capitol and the Future of US Foreign Policy Mark Leon Goldberg January 13, 2021 The insurrection on January 6 in Washington, D.C. painfully exposed to all that a country that ostensibly seeks to promote democracy around the world has a violent anti-democratic underbelly -- and this anti-de...
What the Criminal Conviction of Saudi Women’s Rights Activist Loujan al-Hathloul Says About the Future of Saudi Arabia Mark Leon Goldberg January 11, 2021 Loujan al-Hathloul is a 31 year old Saudi women's rights activist currently in jail. She was first arrested in a protest advocating for right of women to drive and has been imprisoned by Saudi authorities since...
Mozambique is Experiencing a Surge of Violence as Crisis Worsens in Cabo Delgado Region Mark Leon Goldberg January 7, 2021 There is a worsening Jihadist insurgency in a province in Northern Mozambique called Cabo Delgado. The insurgency began in 2017, but in recent weeks the fighting has intensified substantially. Over half a mill...
How the United States Can Strengthen UN Peacekeeping and Support International Peace and Security Mark Leon Goldberg January 4, 2021 One of the most visible tools of international cooperation on peace and security are UN Peacekeepers -- Blue Helmets. Since the advent of UN Peacekeeping in the late 1940s, the institution of UN Peacekeeping an...
How the Biden-Harris Administration Can Advance a Global Human Rights Agenda Mark Leon Goldberg December 28, 2020 The last four years have altered the global human rights landscape in some significant ways. The Trump administration by and large abandoned multilateral forums for advancing a human rights agenda, like the UN ...
Vaccine Multilateralism Gets a Shot in the Arm Mark Leon Goldberg December 22, 2020 It is the end of 2020 and two recent developments augur well for the prospects for international cooperation to confront the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. On December 18 the multilateral platform for internatio...
How the Biden Administration Can Reset America’s Approach to Refugees, Asylum Seekers and International Migration Mark Leon Goldberg December 21, 2020 The United States has a long history of supporting refugees and asylum seekers. Until the Trump administration took office, the United States was the single largest country for refugee resettlement in the world...
The Western Sahara Conflict, Upended By a Trump Tweet Mark Leon Goldberg December 17, 2020 On December 10th, Donald Trump upended over 30 years of US diplomacy with a Tweet in which he declared American support for Morocco's claims of sovereignty over Western Sahara. Today, I signed a proclamation...
