China exerts some political muscle as North Korea continues to test boundaries.
North Korea’s nuclear threats are becoming routine, and the United Nations is running out of sanctions options.
Mr. Mrabit discusses how nuclear safety and security are always works in progress.
Kahl discusses the outcomes of last weeks’ talks in Istanbul between Iran and the P5+1 and his ideas on what both parties would accept as a possible deal.
The conflict has been propped up by blame games, ineffective diplomacy, recurring geopolitical tensions and proxy warfare in the Great Lakes region, and the Congolese state’s weak commitment to addressing grievances that drive armed group proliferation.
China will likely continue to shape peacekeeping along its preferences for a more technical and less overt political foreign policy tool.
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