Better Know Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Biden’s Pick for United Nations Ambassador Who Will Bring “Gumbo Diplomacy” to the UN Mark Leon Goldberg November 23, 2020 Linda Thomas-Greenfield will be nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield is a veteran diplomat who most recently served...
What’s Next for the Iran Nuclear Deal? Mark Leon Goldberg November 19, 2020 When President Trump came to office in 2017, he inherited from President Obama the Iran Nuclear Deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA. The JCPOA was negotiated between the Un...
Ending Polio in Africa is Leading to Other Major Health Gains Mark Leon Goldberg November 17, 2020 Charles Shey Wiysonge, South African Medical Research Council Polio is a highly infectious disease. It’s caused by a virus that enters the body through the mouth. The virus then multiplies in the intestine a...
A Ceasefire, But Not Peace for Nagorno-Karabakh Mark Leon Goldberg November 16, 2020 On November 9th the warring parties in Nagorno-Karabakh signed a ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia. The agreement comes after weeks of very heaving fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia which killed and ...
A Civil War Looms in Ethiopia Mark Leon Goldberg November 12, 2020 Ethiopia is on the brink of a potentially devastating civil war. On November 4th, the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched military operations against the Tigray People's Liberation Front, the TPLF, whi...
7 Ways That Joe Biden Can Restore America’s Relationship With the United Nations, With the Stroke of a Pen Mark Leon Goldberg November 11, 2020 Over the last four years, the Trump administration has taken a series of actions that have undermined American leadership at the United Nations and, by extension, undermined the work of the United Nations and i...
Veteran European Diplomat Gerard Araud Discusses Joe Biden’s Election and the Future of Trans-Atlantic Relations Mark Leon Goldberg November 9, 2020 Gerard Araud is the former French Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations. I reached out to him for an interview about the US election because I wanted to learn how a veteran senior diplomat from...
Joe Biden and the United Nations Mark Leon Goldberg November 9, 2020 Joe Biden has a long history with the United Nations. As Vice-President from 2009 to 2017, he was a fixture at the UN General Assembly, accompanying President Obama to New York for the flurry of high-level summ...
Protests in Thailand, Explained Mark Leon Goldberg October 30, 2020 On October 14th, something very unusual happened in Thailand when a Royal Motorcade carrying the Queen brushed up against a group of pro-democracy protesters. The monarchy in Thailand has traditionally been a c...
