What Political Science Can Teach Us About The US Airstrikes on Syria Mark Leon Goldberg April 13, 2017 Moscow cast its eighth veto at the Security Council in defense of the Syrian government yesterday. The vote in question would have dispatched a team of UN investigators to the site of the chemical weapons attack and compelled the Syrian government to coope...
Syria is a Good Reason Why the United States Should Stick With the Human Rights Council Bathsheba Crocker April 11, 2017 The Trump Administration has produced various rationales for its decision last week to launch cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase after the Syrian government used chemical weapons to attack and kill Syrian civilians. In his remarks just after the U.S. strike, ...
Chemical Weapons Were Used in Syria. And Now Comes Another Big Test for Trump at the UN Mark Leon Goldberg April 5, 2017 With news of a horrific chemical weapons attack in Syria, the Security Council is holding an emergency meeting today. If past is prologue, the following things will probably happen: First, the Council will issue a statement unanimously condemning the attack a...
This is Trump’s First Big Test at the UN Mark Leon Goldberg February 27, 2017 The very first Russia v. USA showdown over Syria is poised to take place at the United Nations in the next week. At issue is a resolution pending at the Security Council that would, among other things, sanction Syrian government officials responsible for the u...
This Syria Expert Thinks the War is Basically Over Mark Leon Goldberg February 27, 2017 As the Syria civil war enters its seventh year, the outcome of the conflict no longer seems in doubt. With some 400,000 people killed and over 11 million Syrian displaced, its appears likely that the Syrian government will likely prevail over its armed opp...
PHOTOS: Inside the World’s Largest Humanitarian Relief Depot Mark Leon Goldberg February 21, 2017 UN Dispatch recently visited a vast complex on the outskirts of Dubai that stores humanitarian relief items for dispatch anywhere in the world. When disaster strikes, this places snaps into action. These photos offer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse into the l...
Security Council Passes New Aleppo Resolution. Monitors to Be Deployed Mark Leon Goldberg December 19, 2016 After a weekend of intense negotiations, the Security Council voted unanimously today to deploy monitors to oversee the evacuation of eastern Aleppo. These monitors will be drawn from UN staff and workers from the International Committee for the Red Cross/Cres...
CNN Journalist Clarissa Ward Snuck Behind the Front Lines in Syria then Briefed the Security Council About What She Saw Mark Leon Goldberg August 29, 2016 Clarissa Ward is an award winning journalist who has covered conflict for over a decade, mostly in the Middle East. She is now with CNN and earlier this year she and a small crew snuck into rebel held territory in Syria, including the city of Aleppo from w...
There’s New Evidence of Chemical Weapons in Syria, Now a Showdown is Looming at the Security Council Mark Leon Goldberg August 25, 2016 Chemical Weapons have been used -- again -- in Syria. A report transmitted to the Security Council yesterday by a the UN-backed Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons found several instances of chemic...
