... Brexit Maastricht Treaty France Netherlands Italy Five Star Movement central banks 1968 83 Everyone can see that European politics is changing. In January, the British Parliament delivered a stinging defeat to Prime Minister Theresa May s plan to take the United Kingdom out of the European...

...Sharon Squassoni A volatile US president has stirred up new angst over the nuclear peril. The UN treaty banning the bomb may not have much immediate effect, but it could be a first step toward a safer future. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University...

... India Pakistan Bangladesh Nepal Ganges River Indus River Brahmaputra River Indus Water Treaty Ganges Waters Treaty climate change environment rivers South Asia 148 [D]isputes have deepened to the extent that water is seen as inherently a source of conflict rather than...

...Raffaello Pantucci China is the increasingly dominant power in the region, but it is acting in full concordance with Russia. Raffaello Pantucci Central Asia Russia China Xinjiang Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Collective Security Treaty Organization New Silk Road Economic...

...Lorraine Elliott Nations will try to negotiate a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol by the end of 2015. Can they agree on how to share the burden of cutting emissions and funding mitigation and adaption measures? © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents...

... postcommunist association OSCE organization security cooperation Europe open skies treaty national nationalism euro-atlantic 265 This year, the tragedies and outrages of the Ukraine crisis have dominated headlines and thinking about Western relations with Russia. There can be little doubt...

... of California Karen Smith Joseph Nye European Europe union soft power economic military diplomatic instruments outcomes Interstate hard command EU normative ICC international criminal court Lisbon treaty Greece accession euro influence austerity 104 The EU is a powerful...

... Russia reset China Barack Obama New START treaty Libya Syria Central Asia 281 PERSPECTIVE Eighteen months ago it appeared that US President Barack Obama was succeeding in improving relations with Moscow, a task that his two predecessors, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, failed to accomplish...

... China Mikheil Saakashvili NATO Barack Obama Collective Security Treaty Organization 266 For the first time in its history . . . Russia finds itself surrounded by states and political groupings that are economically, demographically, and politically more dynamic than itself. Russia, the 360...

... Bruce Riedel Middle East Iran United States Pakistan Israel Israeli Defense Force Hezbollah Ayatollah Khomeini Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 370 Iran s acquisition of a nuclear weapons capability . . . will be destabilizing and unsettling. But it will not transform the fundamental...

... security globalization multipolarity UN Security Council United States NATO International Atomic Energy Agency Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference Disarmament 329 For the near to medium term, the international community likely will confront the consequences of weaker global...

... governance United Nations Kofi Annan Human Rights Council Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Barack Obama Group Robert Gates Nonaligned Movement 322 A gap is steadily growing between the major challenges facing the planet and the ability of international decision-making processes to deal...

... war China Central Treaty Organization Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Al Qaeda 138 The sense of being used, abused, and discarded now constitutes a central theme in Pakistan s ties to America. . . . How a Botched US Alliance Fed Pakistan s Crisis STephen p. Cohen Pakistan...

... of the University of California Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Brazilian foreign policy UN Security Council Workers' Party BRIC World Trade Organization Group Eight Twenty Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 60 . . . Brazilian foreign policy under Lula has emphasized not only...

... to be disengaged. © 2004 Current History. All rights reserved. 2004 The Regents of the University of California Russia United States Vladimir Putin NATO CIS George Bush Non-Proliferation Treaty Bushehr Nunn-Lugar Program Iran United States Russian relations are adrift.After a promising...

... History. All rights reserved. 2004 The Regents of the University of California North Korea United States Kim Il-sung Kim Jong-il Japan KPA South Korea Demilitarized Zone IAEA Non-Proliferation Treaty 273 The Kims, father and son, have not managed torule North Korea for more than 50...

... ABM treaty George Bush Chechnya Clinton democracy Gore Kremlin Putin Russia terrorism Why the major reversal in Bush s thinking on Russia? Most have attributed this amazing transformation to September 11. . . . But September 11 is only part of the story. 313 George W. Bush and Russia...

...Jack Mendelsohn The Bush administration's national security policies, if fully and unilaterally implemented, will severely stress United States relations with Russia and China. … These policies would also deal a serious blow to the international treaty regimes developed over the past 30 years...