What is Driving a Surge in Violence and Insecurity in Niger? Mark Leon Goldberg April 12, 2021 For the last several months Niger has experienced a surge in attacks against civilians by violent extremists. This includes a series of attacks in March in which hundreds of civilians have been killed. In one p...
How Have the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Responded to the Global Economic Crisis? Mark Leon Goldberg April 8, 2021 When economies started tanking last year as COVID-19 spread rapidly around the globe, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund mounted their crisis response. The World Bank and IMF stepped up their lendin...
How A New International Pandemic Treaty Can Prevent the Next Big One Mark Leon Goldberg April 5, 2021 On March 30th, leaders from 23 countries plus the heads of the World Health Organization and the European Union called for a new international treaty to confront the next pandemic. In a joint statement that ...
Elections and Democratic Backsliding in Benin Mark Leon Goldberg April 1, 2021 Benin is a geographically small country in West Africa, located between Nigeria and Togo. Since the 1990s Benin has earned a reputation as a strong and stable multiparty democracy, with multiple elections and ...
The Epic Odyssey of a Stateless Refugee Family’s Quest to Find a Home Mark Leon Goldberg March 30, 2021 On the podcast today is Ty McCormick, author of the new book Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family's Quest for a Country to Call Home The book tells the story of Asad Hussein who was born in a refugee camp in ...
Turkey Withdraws from a Key Gender-Based Violence Treaty and an Update from the Commission on the Status of Women Mark Leon Goldberg March 25, 2021 On March 20th, the government of Turkey announced that is was withdrawing from a key human rights treaty known as the Istanbul Convention. Among other things, the Istanbul Convention seeks to criminalize gender...
“Weaponized Interdependence” and the Future of International Relations Mark Leon Goldberg March 21, 2021 For much of the 1990s and 2000s the prevailing theory about globalization was that the ever tightening integration of economies around the world was both largely benign and would reduce conflict among nations. ...
In Brazil, Health Systems are Collapsing from COVID and a Major Political Showdown Looms Mark Leon Goldberg March 18, 2021 Health systems in Brazil are collapsing. Hospitals are running out of beds and oxygen as COVID cases in Brazil soar. Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has long downplayed the severity of COVID and has discoura...
How the United States Can Embrace a Feminist Foreign Policy Mark Leon Goldberg March 15, 2021 Fifty days into the Biden-Harris administration, the United States has taken a number of key steps to revive multilateralism as a pillar of American foreign policy. Over the past several weeks on the Global Dis...
