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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is the most important and impactful global agreement on nuclear weapons. 191 counties have joined the N...

On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, the four candidates for UN Secretary-General made their case at the UN General Assembly. Across twelve h...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is causing a surge in food prices around the world — particularly in places already in the midst of a hu...

Today's episode was recorded live at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, for the annual Lewis & Clark International Affairs Symposium...

As I am recording this on Friday, April 10, JD Vance is en route to Islamabad, Pakistan, for negotiations over a ceasefire announced on Apri...

Pandemic Risk Assessment is an emerging scientific toolkit designed to assess how pandemic risk is evolving over time. Rather than predictin...

Many of our best surveillance tools today that were originally built to target specific diseases like polio and malaria have become critical...

Robust disease surveillance systems are the foundation of strong public health systems and are essential to preventing, detecting, and respo...

Today's episode is produced in partnership with the Global Challenges Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to raising awareness of global...

One year ago, in 2025, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was extradited to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity an...

For the first time in nearly 70 years, it looks like there may be major political changes afoot in Cuba — driven by the United States. The T...

Earlier last last week, he United Nations reported that around 300,000 Lebanese had been displaced since Israel opened a new front in southe...

Today's episode is produced in partnership with the Global Challenges Foundation. The Foundation is dedicated to raising awareness of global...

We cover a lot of ground in this week's episode of To Save Us From Hell ! There are two new entrants to the race to succeed António Guterres...

Things are obviously moving very fast in the Middle East. When I caught up with my guest today, Dalia Dassa Kaye, the war was in its second...

Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held a high-stakes meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and, according to several news...

Ethiopia is on the brink of a war that could turn into a major regional conflagration. Over the past several weeks, military forces have bee...

It was an odd juxtaposition: Trump's inaugural Board of Peace gathered in Washington, D.C. as the U.S. appeared to be readying for war with...

On February 3, the United States deployed a warship and Coast Guard vessels off the coast of Haiti, near Port-au-Prince. The move came amid...

The New START treaty, signed by the United States and Russia in 2010, limited both countries to 1,550 deployed strategic warheads, placed re...

Donald Trump doesn't much like Pedro Sánchez — and the Spanish prime minister is perfectly fine with that. Unlike other European leaders who...

For the first time in history, multiple countries have jointly nominated a candidate for UN Secretary General. Earlier this week, Brazil, Ch...

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs has been tracking American views on foreign policy since the end of the Vietnam War. Last week, it rel...

For the past year and a half, South Sudan has been on the brink of a new civil war. A 2018 peace deal that ended the last civil war has been...

One year ago, the United States was winning the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Thanks largely to American leadership, infections and deaths...

Can Donald Trump's new Board of Peace really compete with the Security Council? Will we even be discussing it a week or two from now, or wil...

Protests sweeping Iran are unlike anything the regime has faced since coming to power in 1979. What began as demonstrations by shopkeepers i...

On Christmas Day, the United States launched a series of missile strikes in Nigeria, ostensibly against jihadist groups. In the weeks prior,...

Danes are reeling from the aggressive nature of Donald Trump's designs on Greenland — but there is little they can do to stop the United Sta...

I'm joined by one of my favorite fellow podcasters and Substackers, Kaiser Kuo, host of the long-running Sinica Podcast , for a wide-ranging...

The Security Council convened an emergency meeting on Monday in response to American military operations in Venezuela that captured Nicolás...

In a stunning U.S. military operation carried out in the early hours of Saturday, January 3rd, American forces captured Venezuelan President...

In 2022, countries agreed to negotiate an international treaty to end plastics pollution. They gave themselves a two-year deadline to finali...

Today's episode is produced in partnership with the Global Challenges Foundation. The Foundation is dedicated to raising awareness of global...

Your very own To Save Us From Hell co-host Anjali Dayal briefed the United Nations Security Council on Monday! She was paired with former UN...

In 1998, 120 countries came together to adopt the Rome Statute, creating what would become the International Criminal Court. Four years late...

2025 was a year of global protests. More than 70 countries across every region of the world experienced anti-government demonstrations. Some...

Over the course of Syria's fourteen-year civil war, around one million people went missing, presumably killed. Among them was the father of...

On December 4, the entire United Nations Security Council made an unprecedented trip to Syria. It is hard to overstate what a significant tu...

The Halifax International Security Forum always includes a sizable and bi-partisan group of United States Senators who were suddenly put on...

When Damascus was liberated in December of last year and Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow, thousands of the regime's political prisoners were...

Kabul is running out of water. If present trends continue, the capital of Afghanistan could run completely dry by 2030. There are several re...

U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations. He assumed the role following the death of Dag Hammars...

My interview guest today, Axel Marschik, is a veteran Austrian diplomat who has thought extensively about how the General Assembly can play...

On October 29, Tanzania held national presidential elections — and lo and behold , incumbent President Samia Suluhu Hassan "won" with a stag...

2025 marks 50 years of the Biological Weapons Convention. Back in 1975, the treaty entered into force, and by banning biological weapons wor...

About a year and a half ago, I published an episode of Global Dispatches titled " A Genocidal Massacre Is Looming in Darfur. " At the time,...

Cameroonians went to the polls earlier this month in national elections, and on October 27th, a constitutional commission packed with loyali...

North Korea has been extremely repressive for a very long time. But over the last several years, the crackdowns have gotten worse. New repor...

The Security Council is deep into negotiations around authorizing an international stabilization force for Gaza. But even if the Council app...