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Center for International Relations
and Sustainable Development

An Era of Accountability through Innovation and Partnership

Karim A. A. Khan QC is a barrister, Queen’s Counsel, and Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn. An Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, he serves as Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to promote accountability for crimes committed by Da’esh / Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD). The opinions reflected […]

It’s Time for Neuro – Rights

  Rafael Yuste is Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. A neuroscientist and science advocate, he led the researchers who spearheaded the U.S. BRAIN Initiative and the International BRAIN Initiative. You may follow him on Twitter @yusterafa. Jared Genser is an international human rights lawyer, Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, and an Adjunct Professor […]

Breaking the Big Tech Monopoly

Winston Ma, an Adjunct Professor at the NYU School of Law, is a former Managing Director and Head of the North America office of the China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s sovereign wealth fund. Prior to that, he served as the deputy head of equity capital markets at Barclays Capital, was a vice president at J.P. […]

The Future of American Military Intervention

Roger Petersen is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). SINCE the end of the Cold War, the world’s only superpower militarily intervened in a large number of conflicts. The most well-known cases include Operation Provide Comfort in Northern Iraq after the First Gulf War, Operation […]

NATO is Focusing on Change

Alessandro Minuto Rizzo is an Italian diplomat who served as Deputy Secretary General of NATO and as interim Secretary General of NATO. He acted as Ambassador of Italy to the Western European Union and to the EU Political and Security Committee (PSC). He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italy-USA Foundation and […]

Battle for the Soul of Islam

James M. Dorsey is Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies of Nanyang Technological University, Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute, and Co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute of Fan Culture in Germany. You may follow him on Twitter @mideastsoccer. TROUBLE is brewing in the […]