Will re-engagement in UN Human Rights Council bring influence, leverage?
UNHRC Condemnations, 2006-2021: 🇰🇵 North Korea 13 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 0 🇻🇪 Venezuela 2 🇵🇰 Pakistan 0 🇸🇴 Somalia 0 🇧🇾 Belarus 11 🇪🇷 Eritrea 10 🇮🇱 Israel 90 🇹🇷 Turkey… Read more »
UNHRC Condemnations, 2006-2021: 🇰🇵 North Korea 13 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 0 🇻🇪 Venezuela 2 🇵🇰 Pakistan 0 🇸🇴 Somalia 0 🇧🇾 Belarus 11 🇪🇷 Eritrea 10 🇮🇱 Israel 90 🇹🇷 Turkey… Read more »
‘Democracy is not a spectator sport’ was a phrase that George Shultz (above) proudly wore on his favorite tie, and a message that we need desperately to remember in our… Read more »
When Ecuadoreans choose a new president and legislature on February 7th, they will begin a busy political year across Latin America. Chile, Haiti, Honduras, Peru and Nicaragua are due… Read more »
While not addressing U.S. President Joe Biden by name, China‘s Xi Jinping attacked the notion of a democratic counter-offensive against Beijing’s growing authoritarianism, Newsweek reports. During a pointed Davos speech, he… Read more »
As Joe Biden prepares to enter the White House, the United States is no longer the only superpower, argues Ivan Krastev (right), the chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies, a… Read more »
The U.S.-led countries of the trans-Atlantic alliance and their democratic East Asian allies lack a strategy for dealing with their most formidable competitor: China. But the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)… Read more »
“We’ve witnessed a sharp rise in nationalist rhetoric that plays to people’s fears instead of their hopes. Institutions and reforms are being challenged… compromise and cooperation dismissed.” Those are the… Read more »
The latest wave of arrests of human rights activists in an unprecedented crackdown on civil society and political dissent overseen by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi may be a pre-emptive move in… Read more »
The likely new U.S. secretary of state “has long been clear about the importance of promoting democracy and human rights” in U.S. foreign policy, observers suggest. President-elect Joe Biden is… Read more »
My latest for @BrookingsFP argues that tomorrow’s 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide should spur a recommitment to human rights as a key element of U.S. foreign policy. Read it… Read more »