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Newsweek: What Happens If the World No Longer Has Water?

December 27, 2017
Countries of the Middle East, a region where population growth is high, may be among the first to run out of water. Shortages are associated with a series of conflicts and refugee crises after the country hosted Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis and Syrians. “Globally, water demand is forecast to rise...

The Economist: America’s Neglect and Confusion Aggravate Problems in the Arab World

December 13, 2017
In his brief tenure as US President, Donald Trump’s foreign policy with regard to the Middle East has been muddled at best and disastrous at worst. The current administration’s support for Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and his son Crown Prince Mohammad has White House advisors like Jared Kushner...

Interview With Gareth Evans

Nayan Chanda
February 15, 2018

Smugglers Had Design for Advanced Warhead

June 16, 2008
A computer seized from a Swiss businessman, part of an international smuggling ring, included plans for constructing a small, yet deadly nuclear device. Former United Nations weapons inspector David Albright, now president of the Institute for Science and International Security, points out that the...

Is a Pandemic Being Born?

April 4, 2013
Epidemiologists are investigating whether the deaths of three unrelated Chinese individuals, showing symptoms of respiratory distress and pneumonia, are connected to thousands of dead pigs, ducks and swans found in three rivers, the Huangpu, the Xiang and the Sichuan. The events may be unrelated or...

US Ends Two Science Advisory Boards: Hill

October 6, 2019
Donald Trump issued an executive order in June, urging departments to consider eliminating a third of the country’s advisory panels. Steps have been taken to disband two: the Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the...

Spiegel: EU Mulls Funding Cuts for Eastern Europe

April 10, 2018
Europe’s largest and most powerful economies maintain that values embracing human rights and the rule of law have enhanced European prosperity. So it’s understandable that the Germany, France and others do not want to subsidize Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and other states that skirt the rule of law,...

Anxious America – Part II

March 14, 2006
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the second part of this series, Susan Froetschel examines how closing of the door, out of US security concerns, only encourages research and development efforts overseas. The US is building barriers to science within its borders – with security...
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