The New Atlantic Charter provides the first time that the specific language of ‘responsible state behaviour’ has been used publicly in an official capacity in relation to nuclear weapons.
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The ‘Responsibility Turn’ in Nuclear Diplomacy
The New Atlantic Charter provides the first time that the specific language of ‘responsible state behaviour’ has been used publicly in an official capacity in relation to nuclear weapons.
Could Person-Centered Security be America’s Future?
BASIC Policy Fellow, Emily Enright, explores President Biden’s security model, making the case for a Person-Centered approach to security moving forward.
The Nuclear Weapons Dimensions of the 2021 Integrated Review: A First Look
The Johnson Government has set a decisive course away from the United Kingdom’s three decade-long trend of successive nuclear reductions and increasing transparency.
Gender, Think-Tanks and International Affairs: a Toolkit
The Gender, Think-Tanks and International Affairs Toolkit has been jointly developed and published by BASIC,…
Looking Beyond ‘Manels’
President-elect Joe Biden made a passionate case for the nomination of retired General Lloyd Austin as his…
Is it a dead-end for US-North Korea talks?
After a lull, will it be a storm again? With the many rounds of formal talks between US officials and their counterparts from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) remaining fruitless, there are portends of the Korean Peninsula heading back to the pre-Panmunjom days of hostilities and a potential re-run of the Kim Jong-Un regime’s uninhibited display of its military hardware.
A week in the life of BASIC
What does a small team in London dedicated to shifting the debate on nuclear disarmament worldwide do? We collected together a small number of representative activities we conducted in one week in June 2019.