On July 9, Recep Tayyip Erdogan started a new term as Turkey’s president– and his first with the enhanced powers that came from constitutional changes that he had sought and …
Zohra Drif memoir spurs discussion on political violence and anti-colonialism
In recent weeks, the NYC-based Nation magazine has hosted an intriguing discussion about the use of political violence in one of the great anti-colonial movements of the twentieth century: the …
More preparations for the #WarHurtsEarth campaign, for Earth Day!
We’ve been refining our thinking for the #WarHurtsEarth campaign that we’re planning for Earth Day 2018 (April 22.) As you can read here, we’re planning for this campaign to have …
Ian Williams explores UN-US ties with DC’s World Affairs Council, and with Helena Cobban
In late January, Just World Educational brought veteran UN watcher Ian Williams to Washington DC, to discuss US-UN ties (in general) with members of the city’s World Affairs Council. We …
Ian Williams and cartoonist Krishna launch new, US-wide discussion of UN’s values
On November 30, veteran UN watcher Ian Williams and cartoonist “Krishna” headlined two events at the United Nation’s mid-town Manhattan HQ. At noon-time, in the UN’s bookstore, they launched their …
Ian Williams to launch speaking tour on US-UN relations
Just World Educational is delighted to announce that veteran global-affairs specialist Ian Williams will shortly be launching a multi-month, multi-city speaker series on the theme: “The US, the United Nations, …
Geopolitics and Syria Today
The last days of 2016 saw two notable developments in U.S.-Russian relations. In the first, the U.S. government expelled more than 30 Russian diplomats from the country and shuttered two …
Amb. Chas Freeman on “Ebb in Deference to American Global Leadership”
This is the text of an address that Amb. Freeman gave to the McLean Foreign Policy Group on December 6, 2016. Freeman is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute …