The Syrian civil war that has decimated the country for more than decade, provoking a regional humanitarian crisis and drawing in actors ranging from the United States to Russia, has been drawing inexorably to a conclusion for years now. President Bashar al-Assad, with the backing of Iran and Russia, has emerged militarily victorious from the conflict, which began after his government violently repressed civilian protests in 2011. But is the crisis in Syria really over?
To win a war against Russia, Ukraine needs to reduce its reliance on foreign aid and build a stronger domestic defense industry.
Palestinian civil society actors have been primary defenders of the international justice system. That system isn’t defending them back.
As conflicts and crises persist around the world, there is growing uncertainty about how—or if—they will be resolved. The international order is fraying, generating uncertainty about who will intervene and how these interventions might be funded.
The Normandy invasion had a significant and lasting effect on international politics, shaping the rest of the 20th century and even today.
The need for peacebuilding in post-conflict societies grew out of the realization that signing agreements to bring fighting to an end is a necessary but insufficient step toward true and enduring peace. But while many of peacebuilding’s objectives seem self-evident, it is often laborious and expensive—and easily undone.
The ICC is specifically designed to treat all states equally, regardless of how “democratic” or “free” the societies they govern are.