In the lead-up to the mid-June Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), we’re presenting a series of materials to help new generations …
Thinking about nuclear war in 2022
In the webinar series Just World Ed did on the Ukraine Crisis in March, one of the eight webinars (Session 8) started to address the nuclear risks associated with it. …
JWE marks anniversary of the Évian Accords with new Learning Hub
March 18, 2022 will be the 60th anniversary of the notable peace agreement between the government of France and the National Liberation Front of Algeria (FLN), under which the French …
Where to now, the “world order”?
(Cross-posted from my personal blog, “Just World News“) By launching a broad military campaign against Ukraine today, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has also launched a strong assault against the norms …
Amb. Matlock on Ukraine: An avoidable crisis
Amb. Jack Matlock Jr. was Ambassador to Moscow for the two U.S. Presidents who, between them, brought the extremely perilous, decades-long Cold War between the United States and the Soviet …
Burning truths for 2022 and beyond
For the past 13 months I’ve been engaged at my personal blog, Just World News, in an exploration of the origins of West-European settler colonialism, the process that led to …
Just World Ed and Covid’s 3rd Year
Humankind’s Covid-19 crisis is now entering its third year. Every nation on this planet has been drastically affected by it– at a time when nearly everyone around the world has …
How ‘The West’ was born
On January 1, I launched a new writing project, which is a sustained exploration of the last 500 years of human history. Its prime focus is on how exactly it …
Chinese strategic expert calls for revived US-Chinese dialogue
Ambassador He Yafei, a high-ranking former Chinese diplomat currently affiliated with a Beijing think-tank, warned recently that in the absence of any official strategic dialogue between the United States and …
Our July convo on China with Amb. Chas Freeman
Back in early July, I was lucky to have Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. as my guest on Just World Ed’s “World After Covid” webinar series. Near the beginning of …