Category: Op-Ed

As the costs and threats from climate change rise, the key is not to wait until it’s too late to take action

Sweden announced that it is practicing ‘feminist foreign policy’ in 2014.  France did in March this year.  Canada has promoted feminist international development policy since 2017.  Foreign policy matters for women’s rights because it shapes whether relations between nations might include support for gender equality.  Foreign policy can direct whether trade deals benefit countries with poor women’s rights records, or whether development aid is used to support women’s’ rights ambitions of women’s’ movements in low-income countries.  Feminist foreign policy is very new, and still under-defined. Can a country that sells arms to Saudi Arabia be said to be practicing feminist foreign policy?  What position should countries professing feminist foreign policy practice take on women’s reproductive and sexual rights?

Politicians must often walk a fine line with their rhetoric in order to avoid offending important groups – and this need is no different where the “base” of their party is concerned. John V. Kane has previously found that when a politician actually works to upset their base, this can lead to more support from those in the opposing party, which could lead to more bipartisanship. In new research, he determines that partisans are attracted to stories about an opposing-party president antagonizing their base, revealing another way that the media are important in forming political opinions.

Our Energy Policy International Club (EPIC), working with CGA’s Sustainable Development Group and the Stern Energy & Infrastructure Club, organized an event showcasing the work of four of our recent graduates now working in the sustainability arena.

Lost — temporally — in the Cohen testimony and the predictable collapse of the nuclear talks with North Korea, is the lesson we need to learn from the fabricated Mexican border ‘crisis’ and fake national emergency. It is this: President Trump is prepared to inflict lasting damage on the country to save his presidency. 

On March 1, 2019, approximately thirty representatives of U.N. Member States, civil society, academia, and the legal community met to discuss an initiative proposed by Professor Jennifer Trahan of NYU’s Center for Global Affairs.  Professor Trahan has identified a number of “hard law” considerations relevant to use of the “veto” in situations of core international crimes – genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.