Diplomacy & International Relations

Sudan: Window is closing to prevent wider escalation in El Obeid

(UN News) A senior United Nations official warned on Friday that the opportunity to prevent a major escalation in the Sudanese city of El...

Guterres urges renewed commitment to multilateralism on UN Charter Day

(UN News) Secretary-General António Guterres and General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock reaffirmed the principles outlined in the UN Charter and called for a renewed...

Strait of Hormuz: UN evacuates 2,500 seafarers before attack freezes rescue operation

(UN News) The United Nations’ maritime agency said on Friday that it had successfully evacuated about 2,500 stranded seafarers from the Persian Gulf before...

Deaths in US immigration custody must be investigated: UN rights chief

(UN News) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday called for stronger independent oversight of the United States immigration detention system...

At a Mosque in San Diego, Trump’s Counterterrorism Strategy Falls Flat

(Peter Beck, Jacob Ware - Lawfare) During an interview to unveil the latest edition of the U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy, Sebastian Gorka, the senior director...

The Missing Resistance in China’s AI Debate

(Yaqiu Wang - Lawfare) Trump’s visit to China in May was marked by pomp and circumstance but produced few breakthroughs. One of the summit’s...

The EU Cloud and AI Development Act

(Kenneth Propp - Lawfare) On June 3, the European Commission published its long-gestating European Technological Sovereignty Package, a sprawling and ambitious compendium of measures...

Iran War Shows Adversaries Can Exploit Big Data, Too

(Justin Sherman - Lawfare) As the war between the United States and Iran reaches a ceasefire, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has received reports of...

When Warning Loses to Permission: Iran, Trump, and the Misapplied Label of “Intelligence Failure”

(Brian O'Neill - Just Security) A year ago, I warned in these pages that the reshaping of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) under President...

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