Sustainable Development Goals – a useful outcome from Rio+20?
January 2012

Recent months have seen increasing interest in the idea that Rio+20 could be the launch pad for a new set of 'Sustainable Development Goals' (SDGs). But what would SDGs cover, what would a process to define and then implement them look like, and what would some of the key political challenges be? This short briefing Alex Evans and David Steven sets out a short summary of current thinking the issue, followed by thoughts about the way forward.

Read the full CIC report here.

Shaky Foundations

At a time of growing popular demand for representative politics, the protection of rights, and access to justice, this report by CIC's Camino Kavanagh and Dr. Bruce Jones examines the ability of the United Nations to provide 'rule of law' support to member-states and national reformers.

Read the full report Shaky Foundations: An Assessment of the UN's Rule of Law Support Agenda here.

The Libyan War: A Diplomatic History

In a new CIC paper, The Libyan War: A Diplomatic History, Emily O'Brien and Andrew Sinclair track multilateral efforts to manage the crisis from the first international responses to the uprising in Libya in February to the eve of the rebel assault on Tripoli in the second half of August. The report summarizes diplomatic negotiations across international and regional organizations ranging from the United Nations, NATO and the European Union to the African Union, League of Arab States and Organization of the Islamic Conference. A preface by Richard Gowan puts the crisis diplomacy in context, and offers observations about the state of multilateral cooperation post-Libya.

The Libyan War: A Diplomatic History by Emily O'Brien and Andrew Sinclair, preface by Richard Gowan

The Paradox of Proximity: India's approach to fragility in the neighborhood

In The Paradox of Proximity: India's approach to fragility in the neighborhood, the first of a series of papers on rising non-Western powers' policies towards fragile states, Nitin Pai explores India's strategy towards fragility in its region.

The Paradox of Proximity | India's approach to fragility in the neighbourhood