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Mark Leon Goldberg is the executive editor of UN Dispatch

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...

A Global Health Agenda for the Biden Administration

Mark Leon Goldberg
December 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has made global health a top tier issue in Washington. In today's episode we explore what opportunities might exist for the incoming Biden administration and Congress to advance a global h...
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