A state’s international image is its main “soft power” attribute. By developing this well-known concept, countries can create prospects for national investment, and therefore wealth for their country. Nowadays, commercial brands may constitute a powerful tool in the hands of diplomats, who bet on using soft power as a means to exert their…

International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) and British Pugwash are co-organising an event to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and Joseph Rotblat on 10 December 1995.

“The Pugwash Nobel Peace Prize 27 years on: Reflections and Outlook” will take…

State conflicts can be unpredictable. It was only eight months ago that Russia started its special military operation in Ukraine, and now the world may be facing the end of civilization as we know it. This may seem like a stretch of the imagination, that is until we witness what may seem irrational escalate into what now seems rational.

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Author - Ulrike Reisner, political scientist, Vienna, Austria. Original publication on picreadi.com


International criminal law: The repeated attempts of European states to prosecute other states or their nationals in conflicts under the pretext of international law must be assessed politically as the assertion of a hegemonic claim to power. Thus…

On the 20th October 2022 the Webinar “Communication, Ethics and the Future of Scientific Cooperation” has been convened within the frames of the Program of the MGIMO Institute of International Studies (and as the part of the Conference “Preventing Nuclear War in Conditions of the Arms Control Crisis”).


 
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The entire world community is waiting for the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which will be held in Beijing on October 16, 2022. The meeting will oversee the appointment of new members to the Party Central Committee, the Commission for Discipline Inspection, as well as CPC's Politburo and its Standing Committee.
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On 11 October 2022 Pugwash organized a side event on the margins of the meeting of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, with the co-sponsorship of the Mission of Brazil to the UN. The meeting was held at the Brazilian Mission to the UN with the topic of “Assessing the NPT 10th Review Conference”.

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The recent publication “Rethinking Post-Cold War Russian-Latin American Relations” (2022; Routledge) offers, through several chapters, different topics and approaches to Russia’s relations with Latin America as a region and bilaterally (in the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela). Vladimir Rouvinski and Victor…

A consensus is emerging that the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany were recently damaged by an attack, not an accident. Three gas leaks were reported on these two projects from Monday night to Tuesday morning, which coincided with seismic activity recorded by Denmark and Sweden that were interpreted as having been underwater explosions…

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union address in mid-September made it clear how far the political course of the European elites has meanwhile distanced itself from the concerns and needs of the societies in the member states. For many critical observers in the European Union, the question is no longer whether - but when - a…

Pugwash notes with regret that the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) have not been able to achieve consensus on a Final Document at the Tenth Review Conference. Source: GloballookpressThe NPT is an important element of the multilateral disarmament and non-proliferation regime, and all Parties must continue to…

The historical course of the Ibero-American countries, most of which have two centuries of independence processes behind them, or are close to reaching their independence bicentenaries (for Brazil it will be September 2022, for Bolivia – 2025), as well as the reflections that arise from the recent bicentenary of the resounding Guayaquil Conference…