Fatalism over the chances of achieving agreement on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation is symptomatic of a failure that goes deeper than the inefficiencies of the diplomatic process.
Risk
The Age of Frustration
The period before World War I was marked by inequality, terrorism, and discontent with democracy. Sound familiar?
Protecting the Baltics without sliding into conflict
In the old Cold War in Europe, there was only one serious flashpoint, one place where a dangerous confrontation between Western and Russian forces was likely, and that was Berlin. In today’s confrontation there are many, stretching from the Caucuses to the Baltic Sea.
Fighting Lies and Misconceptions Supporting Nuclear Weapons
Ward Wilson, a senior fellow at BASIC and author of Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons was interviewed by Rob Kall on his radio show Rob Kall Bottum Up. interview was about the work that Ward does and his beliefs and views on nuclear weapons.
North Korea-Russia Rapprochement: A Setback for a Non-Nuclear Korea?
Through the second half of the twentieth century, North Korea’s communist regime managed to survive in large part thanks to the backing of its key ally, the USSR. Post-Cold War Russia later modified its position toward its old Cold War ally, and bilateral relations became damaged when the then-USSR established diplomatic ties with South Korea in 1990.
Iran: beyond the concessions and expectations
What will it take for negotiating parties to reach a lasting deal over Iran's nuclear programme–and what does it mean for the non-proliferation regime?
The Nuclear Weapon as a Symbol
Being the most powerful and destructive weapon ever conceived by human beings, able to annihilate entire populations, the nuclear weapon is a powerful symbol with multiple dimensions.
The case for complexity
Football, the modern-day opiate of the masses, is a simple passionate game of two teams and one simple, generally zero-sum result. We have a winner and loser; even drawn matches contribute to victory and defeat in the tournament. In attempting to make meaning out of the complexity of regional and sub-regional conflict by reducing it to the binaries of the football pitch, we often make monumental errors.