Richard Gowan

Richard Gowan coordinates the International Security Institutions program at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University. He is also the UN Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and an associate of the Foreign Policy Center (London).

Syria: is love the answer?

War is not the answer, Marvin Gaye once observed, and only love can conquer hate. Now Citizens for Global Solutions is trying to translate this into policy by...

Canada’s new WMD: muskets

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, which kicked off when America made a  grab for what is now Canada.  There then followed a range of...

How big is the Congo? Very big!

Few journalistic cliches are as irritating as the trope of describing some war-ridden country as "the size of Texas" or "three times the size of France".  I...

Russia: the sick BRIC?

A new report from ECFR on Russia makes startlingly depressing reading: The economic crisis has exposed a governance crisis inside Russia: even Putin now...

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