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How Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett Would Lead the United Nations: Three Interview Takeaways
Esther Brimmer is the James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Alexander Sarchet is a research associate at CFR. The United Nations needs to be reorganized and revitalized while it confronts mounting challenges to its core mission. These include the conflicts in Iran and Ukraine, the sharp drop in development assistance from wealthy nations, and an authoritarian rollback of human rights gained over decades.
What Trump Said at the UN Was Important. What He Didn’t Was Important, Too
Esther Brimmer’s work focuses on governance of the global commons, international organizations, and transatlantic relations. She previously served as the assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs from 2009 to 2013. For the fifth time, U.S. President Donald Trump ascended the marble dais to deliver his speech at the opening of the UN General Assembly. Over the decades, world leaders have unleashed much heated rhetoric over that stage’s cool green stone.
How Rafael Grossi Would Lead the United Nations: Three Interview Takeaways
The next secretary-general of the United Nations will need to lead at a time of crises in all three pillars of the institution: peace and security, development, and human rights. Candidate Rafael Grossi tells CFR why he is suited for this moment. The United Nations needs to be reorganized and revitalized while it confronts mounting challenges to its core mission.
Trump Wants to Reset U.S. Space Policy to Assure Dominance. His New Plan Needs Work
Esther Brimmer is the James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. More From Our Experts The December 18 swearing-in of Jared Isaacman as the new NASA administrator and the announcement of a new national space policy reasserts the Trump administration’s aim to achieve U.S. dominance in space. The stakes of President Donald Trump’s space ambitions are immense for both U.S. national security and economic prosperity.
The State of Global Governance: Middle Powers and the Search for Stability
As great power competition reemerges, leaders are searching for ways to maintain some degree of cross-border cooperation. The current great powers, the United States, China, and Russia, have strained international relations in the first quarter of the twenty-first century, while middle powers and regional leaders have sought to maintain a level of partnership amid the growing tensions and craft mechanisms to preserve stability.
Trump’s UN Speech Puts the Benefits of Global Cooperation at Risk
Esther Brimmer is the James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. More From Our Experts Returning to the United Nations dais after four years, President Donald Trump doubled down on the themes he raised in his four previous speeches during his first term: the importance of sovereignty, the independence of states, and especially, the need for each state to preserve its culture.
Why Space Is a National Security Priority
Jane Harman, former congresswoman, and Nina Armagno, U.S. Space Force lieutenant general, retired, are the chairs, and Esther Brimmer, James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the director of the CFR Task Force on Space Policy. More From Our Experts Space has not been a priority in U.S. policy in recent years, but it is now. Space is vital to the security of the United States and the well-being of the American people.
Biden’s Farewell to a Tense United Nations: Finding Hope
For the fourth and final time, U.S. President Joe Biden stood before the assembled members of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) today and shared his vision of the world and the international role of the United States. As he did in each of his three previous UNGA speeches, he described the world as teetering at an “inflection point” in making critical decisions.
Global Europe Summit: green infrastructure matters for the sustainability of resilient communities and economies
Global Europe Summit: green infrastructure matters for the sustainability of resilient communities and economies - Friends of Europe
The Case Against Containment
In the great debate over how the United States should respond to an increasingly assertive China, many commentators have advocated a ready-made solution: containment. Under this Cold War policy, Washington pushed back against Soviet (and Chinese) political and military advances wherever they appeared, seeking to prevent international communism from spreading.
The Man Who Remade Foreign Affairs
James F. Hoge, Jr., believed passionately in American democracy. He thought that its lifeblood was the flow of accurate information and honest reasoning and spent half a century fighting for informed public debate. The world is better off for his efforts. Hoge, who was known to all as Jim, had a storied career as a newspaper editor and publisher, remaking newsrooms, taking risks, exposing corruption, and courting controversy.
Biden at the UN: Inclusive Internationalism
There is a choreography to a U.S. presidential speech at the opening of the UN General Assembly, also known as UNGA. Atop what really is a world stage, the U.S. president presents what is in effect the annual explanation of U.S. foreign policy to the international audience.
Changing Geopolitics in the Arctic
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Strategic Competition in the Arctic Congressional Hearing Strategic Competition in the Arctic Congressional Hearing Changing Geopolitics in the Arctic Hearing on “Strategic Competition in the Arctic” Thank you, Chairman Gimenez, Ranking Member Thanedar, and members of the subcommittee, for inviting me to testify today about “Strategic Competition in the Arctic.” More on: Arctic...
The earthly rules our nations need for outer space exploration Original
India is the first country to land a rover on the south pole of the Moon. This historic event is a harbinger of the remarkable expansion of human activity in space. India joins the United States, the then-Soviet Union and China in making a successful landing on the Moon. A new era of space exploration is underway. More countries are exploring outer space, and more companies have launched (literally) new commercial ventures.
The future of US high-tech is not CHIPS-Plus, it’s international students Original
As Congress attempts to stave off Chinese competition in computer chip manufacturing, investing billions to subsidize its domestic semiconductor industry will miss the mark if the U.S. does not do more to attract and retain international students. The so-called CHIPS-Plus legislation leaves untouched the very real barriers to recruiting the human capital needed to fuel the U.S. semiconductor industry, and all STEM fields for that matter.
NAFSA Stands with Ukraine
February 25, 2022 We share the world’s outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and feel deeply for all who are caught in the crossfire and those with ties to the region. This is a shameful act of aggression, and our thoughts are with all who will be forced to bear the cost of this war with their lives and livelihoods. This violence is in direct opposition to what NAFSA stands for: a peaceful, just, and globally connected world, and the improvement of democratic institutions.
A Whole of Government Approach to Implementing a National Strategy for International Education
Remarks by Esther Brimmer to the Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees (IGC) The following is a speech (as prepared) for the immigration working group of the Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees on Wednesday, November 17, 2021.
Why We Need International Students
Close We had been planning to do an episode on international students, visas and the education system for the past few months. It seems like an underreported topic that people should know about. But then, it became part of the news. CBS: 0:17-0:28 Students’ whose schools plan to offer online only classes in the fall will have to transfer or leave the country or face possible deportation.
Reflecting on the 2018 Successes of NAFSA’s Campaign to Defend International Students and Scholars
By Esther D. Brimmer, DPhil As we approach the end of 2018 and focus on planning for both a new year and a new Congress, I would like to take a moment to reflect on the progress NAFSA has made to defend international students and scholars. Facing new international student enrollment declines and the harmful, anti-immigrant and anti-global policies and rhetoric from the Trump Administration, NAFSA launched a new campaign earlier this year.
International exchanges advance US interests for the long term
The U.S. Congress is on the verge of making a decision that could affect America’s strategic interests for decades. The House Appropriations Committee held a hearing last week to consider funding for one of America’s best tools for building support for the United States around the world: Bringing students, teachers, journalists, and rising leaders from around the world to study as well as learn about the United States and democratic values.
Welcoming the Right Honourable Helen Clark to NAFSA 2017 | NAFSA: Association of International Educators Blog on WordPress.com
Welcoming the Right Honourable Helen Clark to NAFSA 2017 April 24, 2017 by Guest Blogger By Esther Brimmer I am delighted to share the news that the Right Honourable Helen Clark, former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will be the keynote speaker at the NAFSA 2017 Pathways to Peace Luncheon on Friday, June 2, 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. I first met Helen Clark in 2009 as I was starting my job as the United States assistant secretary for international...
United States-Iceland Defense Treaty of 1951
The United States and Iceland agreed on May 5, 1951, that U.S. forces should be stationed in Keflavik, Iceland, in accordance with the North Atlantic Treaty. In September 2006, the Keflavik base was closed.
It is time to invest in the Arctic
The Arctic is undergoing dramatic changes. It is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet, causing the polar ice cap to shrink rapidly. Today there is less ice in the Arctic Ocean than at any time in human history. The melting will likely continue and even accelerate in the coming decades; indeed, the Arctic Ocean could soon become completely free of sea ice in the summer months for the first time in 100,000 years.
How China Is Preparing for Cyberwar
The U.S. and China have significant differences on the legitimate uses and preferred shape of cyberspace. The 2011 White House International Strategy for Cyberspace, for example, states that the US will work toward an “open, interoperable, secure, and reliable information and communications infrastructure.” In contrast, Beijing has argued for a norm of cybersovereignty, the idea that states have the right to control their own cyberspace much like they do any other domain or territory.
Water and U.S. National Security
Water and security concerns are inextricably linked in every region of the world. While shared interests have historically facilitated cooperation in managing water, the future could be different. Climate change, combined with increased and more diverse demands for water, makes disputes more likely. Moreover, many of the security problems associated with water will occur in areas where the United States has strategic interests, including the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific.
Central America’s Violent Northern Triangle
Tens of thousands of Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Hondurans, many of them unaccompanied minors, have arrived in the United States in recent years, seeking asylum from the region’s skyrocketing violence. Their countries, which form a region known as the Northern Triangle, were rocked by civil wars in the 1980s, leaving a legacy of violence and fragile institutions.
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