Articles and Analysis – Page 57

Trump’s North Korea Standoff Rattles Allies and Adversaries

BY ROBBIE GRAMER, PAUL MCLEARY While the EU’s foreign-policy chief tries to defuse tensions in Northeast Asia, the Trump administration is lighting fires. European Union foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini warned…

UN talks to ban nuclear weapons: what can they achieve?

REBECCA JOHNSON, 19 April 2017 What should the nuclear ban treaty include – and what difference does it make, if nuclear-armed governments refuse to join the talks? Although most nuclear-armed…

WHY WE ARE ON HUNGER STRIKE IN ISRAEL’S PRISONS

HADARIM PRISON, Israel — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these abuses by going on a hunger strike.

Ending nuclear lawlessness

Zia Mian & M.V. Ramana The attempt at the UN to ban atomic weapons is based on the premise that all countries deserve equal security In the last week of…

Not just Trump: Indo-Pak tensions have also pushed the nuclear Doomsday Clock closer to midnight

If midnight is the end of the world as we know it, in 2017, the world is 2.5 minutes away from the hour. The Science and Security Board of the…