Nuclear Issues

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Analysis & Opinions

Trumplomacy – North Korea, Iran, and Beyond

| June 19, 2018

In the wake to the highly anticipated encounter between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, the Center for International Security and Governance hosted a lecture and panel discussion with Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Executive Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, on June 14th 2018. Dr. Enrico Fels, who was also scheduled to participate in the panel discussion, regrettably had to cancel his participation last minute due to personal reasons.

President Donald Trump signs a Presidential Memorandum on the Iran nuclear deal from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP Photo/Evan Vucci

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Sanctions: Tool of Diplomacy, Tool of Coercion

| May 09, 2018

As a centuries-old state approach to affect the behavior of other states, sanctions have been and are likely to remain controversial for basically two reasons: They often do not have the desired effect on government behavior or they can badly hurt civilians. But as an alternative to the devastation of modern warfare, let alone the horrors of nuclear war, sanctions have a well deserved place in the tool box of diplomacy.