The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU), sent a powerful signal to multinational corporations MNCs) doing business in Ireland and other low-tax EU jurisdictions by rendering a massive tax judgement against Apple, Inc. The...

There are no subjects for international disputes that are more contentious than the question of territory. Control of geographic space by nation-states is one of the most critical subjects in international relations. Territory is among the most common...

Monday, February 15 marked the start of an unusual type of international summit meeting. The ASEAN-US meeting at the Sunnylands resort in California is a meeting of the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United States...

Starving people forced to eat dirt and leaves. Siege lines where entire populations are prevented from receiving food aid. While these are most familiar to modern readers as images from descriptions of medieval warfare or perhaps from watching Game of...

The 21 st annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is taking place in Paris, France from November 30 through December 11. More commonly called COP21 (Conference of the Parties...

On September 28 the Seventieth Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly began with an opening speech by the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon. The Secretary General extolled the virtues of the UN and highlighted its successes in anti-poverty efforts...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) came under criticism by politicians in the United States and a number of independent experts on nuclear security in the past week as it has emerged that the IAEA did not actually inspect a key Iranian nuclear...

It is hard to overestimate the impact of World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II on global economic relations. The trade and exchange rate regimes of the 1920s, the global economic collapse of the 1930s, and the disasters of both World...

On Sunday, September 25, 2011, Mama Wangari died. Wangari Maathia - the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize - died at a Nairobi Hospital after a long battle with cancer. Most Americans people think of Ms. Maathai as an environmentalist...

Established in the mid-1970s, the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) is an IGO with several missions - from arms control, to border management, to conflict prevention, to education ( click here for more ). The OSCE's member States...

Poverty and inequality have existed throughout recorded history, but today the levels of inequality have reached unprecedented levels. The division in power and wealth between (and within) states comprising the Global North and Global South poses both...

The men and women who toil in American National Security Agency (NSA) have made decisions to cast a wide net in the collection of information. In the name of national security they targeted a very comprehensive list of people and organizations. ...

Last February, punk provocateur band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich performed a brief impromptu high kicking, singing, dance routine in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. While dancing, they shouted...

Last summer South Korea shocked the international community by announcing it would start "scientific" whaling. Why would it shock the international community if the South Koreans study whales? Well, it turns out that the South Koreans want...

Ideas are almost impossible to stop. NGOs and other nonstate actors are often integral in the construction of and the sharing of ideas that people use to define themselves and their interests. Above: Hillary Clinton speaks about the deadlock with...

Today, states are challenged from above by intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and from below by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that seek to influence the outcomes of global problems and concerns. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable...

President Obama telephoned French President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday to talk about the situation in Libya. The two men agreed to continue to work together and with allies to support a peaceful transition to democracy. President Obama said the United...

On Thursday, 13 October 2011 the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will host a working group meeting on the international Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions ....

As NGOs like Partner's In Heath seek to improve the lives of those who are most in need in our village they often find that medicine alone is insufficient in helping. Simply providing a clinic without a way to get to it does not help those who...

World War II reshaped our world. The changes in the international community brought about by WWII cannot be overstated. The victorious leaders of that war knew and understood the devastation and horrors of world war. They had seen so much death and...

From feeding the poor to nuclear weapons to refugee support to war in Syria , to the plight of the Palestinians our global village's most difficult problems are brought to the United Nations. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) are purposely...

From governments to IGOs to terrorists and even to private military companies there are many actors on the international scene. Perhaps with so many different actors it is not surprising to find that a mother of two young boys from San Antonio, Texas...

Technology and communication have triggered a need for change in global governance. The hyper dramatic lowering of costs for cross-border activity has changed the very nature of what it means to be a worker in our global village. Our relationships...

Speaking to United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization 20 June 2013, Pope Francis said, "It is a well-known fact that current levels of production are sufficient, yet millions of people are still suffering and dying of starvation. This...

Imagine starting your day without any water. Now imagine going all day without water. Water is obviously life. Without it we humans suffer - greatly. Millions of children all across our global village go without water every day. According to...