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Chixoy Hydroelectric Plant

What Central America’s Past Conflicts over Hydropower Say About the Future of Decarbonization

Luis Rubén González Márquez

IGCC Blog / May 20, 2024

two white surveillance cameras

Five Questions on Transnational Repression

Marcus Michaelsen

IGCC Blog / May 13, 2024

KOD Demonstration, Warsaw 2016

Five Questions on the State of Democracy in Europe

Anna Meyerrose

IGCC Blog / May 08, 2024

The flags of Japan, China, South Korea, North Korea, the United States and Russia layered on top of one another.

The Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue: Three Decades of Track 1.5 Diplomacy

Stephan Haggard

IGCC Blog / April 29, 2024

People standing in line to vote with voting sign displayed, Washington, D.C.

Five Questions on Growing Global Pessimism about Democracy

David Samuels

IGCC Blog / April 17, 2024

World leaders at the 2022 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit

Democracies and Autocracies are Contesting the Future of Multilateralism

Stephan Haggard and Paddy Ryan

IGCC Blog / April 04, 2024

Rendering of China's Tiangong space station

The United States and China are Competing in Techno-Security Space Innovation

Tai Ming Cheung and Yasuhito Fukushima

IGCC Blog / April 02, 2024

Russian president Vladimir Putin

Is Russia Looking to Put Nukes in Space?

Spenser Warren

IGCC Blog / March 01, 2024

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro speaks unmasked at the signing of the Technology Transfer Agreement for the COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021.

Populists are Attacking Science to Undermine Global Governance

Allison Carnegie, Richard Clark, and Noah Zucker

IGCC Blog / February 26, 2024

Will a New Generation Learn to Love the Bomb?

Harry Oppenheimer

IGCC Blog / January 31, 2024

Shipping containers at a port

How Economic Interdependence Shapes International Security

Nazim Uras Demir

IGCC Blog / December 04, 2023

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attends the G7 Leaders Summit in Hiroshima Japan.

Japan’s Nuclear Dilemmas in a Challenging New Era

John T. Deacon and Etel Solingen

IGCC Blog / October 20, 2023

Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.

Five Questions on Ensuring Nuclear Security During Conflict

Ali Alkış

IGCC Blog / October 19, 2023

52nd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council, Geneva.

Five Questions on Countering Authoritarian Influence in the UN Human Rights System

Rana Siu Inboden

IGCC Blog / September 26, 2023

A group photo of all NEACD 2023 participants.

Cold War or Hot Peace? Troubling Trends in Northeast Asia

Patrick Hulme

IGCC Blog / September 19, 2023

President Joe Biden smiling in a blue suit, in front of a blue MADE IN AMERICA poster with red, white, and blue stars.

Putting Biden’s “New Economic Statecraft” in Context

Vinod Aggarwal and Andrew Reddie

IGCC Blog / August 23, 2023

Alfalfa field with a combine harvester.

The Politics of Foreign Land Acquisition

Rachel Skillman

IGCC Blog / August 14, 2023

Photo by Lindsay Morgan.

A Fond Farewell to Political Violence at a Glance

Lindsay Shingler, Barbara Walter, et al

IGCC Blog / August 04, 2023