Analysis / CommentarySyria’s Humanitarian Crisis: What’s to Be Done?ByRebecca HersmanPublished Dec 21, 2015REBECCA HERSMAN and J. STEPHEN MORRISON
Analysis / Commentary, Next Gen CommunityWhy Engagement, Come What May, Is the Best Policy for Dealing with IranByGraham Flaspoehler and CSIS PONIPublished Apr 8, 2015After sixteen months of negotiations, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached April 2, 2015 is an exceptional milestone in the thirty-six years of fraught relations between the West and the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, according to a statement delivered by President Obama outlining the JCPOA, “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed,” and plenty of hazards exist along the way to reaching an eventual comprehensive agreement by the current talks’ stated deadline of June 30th.
Analysis / Commentary, Next Gen CommunityThe Continued Unlikelihood of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone in the Middle EastByAaron Richards and CSIS PONIPublished Nov 19, 2014There are currently five NWFZs, which have been bound by international treaties signed by all states in those respective regions. The idea of a Middle East NWFZ has been around for nearly forty years, when Iran first proposed it in 1974.