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Fellow Michael Wahid Hanna

Michael Wahid Hanna is a fellow at The Century Foundation. He focuses on issues of international security, human rights, post-conflict justice and U.S. foreign policy in the broader Middle East.

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• Blog Post: The Multilateral Agenda for Obama's Second Term
  In his victory address on election night, Barack Obama broke a year-long silence on climate change to warn of "the destructive power of a warming planet." We are headed back to the United Nations negotiating table.
  Nov 14, 2012
• Blog Post: Rwanda on the Security Council: Enabling a Dictator or a Chance for Transparency?
  Yesterday, Rwanda was elected to a two-year term as a non-permanent member of the Security Council. They ran uncontested as the representative from the African continent, but their election and term on the Council will not be without significant controversy.
  Oct 19, 2012
• In The News: A kinder, gentler U.N. Security Council?
  TCF Fellow Jeffrey Laurenti quoted in Foreign Policy.
  Oct 19, 2012
• Blog Post: Infograph of the Day: The New United Nations Security Council Members
  An illustrated map of the new, current, and outgoing members of the Security Council listed along with their rank on the Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI, compiled annually by the United Nations, ranks composite scores of life expectancy, years of education, and gross national income per capital for each country. Although this measurement is not without its critics, it is the most prominent way to compare countries in terms of development.
  Oct 19, 2012
• Blog Post: Obama in the U.N. Den
  The deadly September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and a wave of furious embassy protests forced a recasting of Obama's speech.
  Oct 3, 2012
• Blog Post: Ahmadinejad’s Last Hurrah
  -Ahmadinejad seemed to acknowledge that the hostility that characterizes U.S.-Iranian relations is not helpful to either: “I accept that the conditions between the United States and Iran have negatively affected both—and perhaps negatively affected the world at large.”
  Sep 24, 2012
• In The News: Syria Crisis Likely to Overshadow UN General Assembly
  TCF Fellow Jeffrey Laurenti quoted in Voice of America.
  Sep 24, 2012
• Blog Post: Why No Blue Helmets in Benghazi?
  Sep 21, 2012
• Blog Post: In a Crazy Week, Whither the Security Council?
  The last week has been absolutely exhausting in the amount of foreign policy news that has broken. Not a single day has gone by without some major turn of event happening, in literally every corner of the globe. Throughout all of this, what has the United Nations Security Council been doing?
  Sep 14, 2012
• Blog Post: The U.N.'s Responsibility to Protect
  Sep 7, 2012
• Blog Post: Ban in Tehran: “Fair and Balanced”?
  Ban Ki-moon said nothing about the sanctions in his address to the summit. But he made clear to the assembled leaders, and his Iranian hosts, that the onus is on Iran “to build international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program…
  Sep 5, 2012
• In The News: UN Chief to Visit Iran Despite US, Israel Objection
  Senior Fellow Jeffrey Laurenti Comments about Ban Ki-Moon's visit to Iran on Al Jazeera English.
  Aug 23, 2012
• Blog Post: Twin Departures Signal Death Watch in Damascus
  Last Thursday United Nations mediator Kofi Annan announced he was folding his peacemaker’s tent, leaving Syria’s obdurate government to meet its fate in a test of arms.
  Aug 7, 2012
• In The News: Limits to Holding Tyrants Accountable
  Senior Fellow Jeffrey Laurenti's Letter to the Editor of the New York Times.
  Jul 13, 2012
• In The News: Syria Accord Seen as Russia Victory; Lacks Call for Assad
  Jeffrey Laurenti quoted in Bloomberg.
  Jul 2, 2012
• Blog Post: The Missing Russian Deliveryman
  Kofi Annan was too diplomatic to say it in public, but his meaning as he “briefed” the United Nations General Assembly Thursday on the...
  Jun 7, 2012
• In The News: UN Observers Face Daunting Challenges in Syria
  Jeffrey Laurenti discusses the UN observer situation in Syria.
  May 17, 2012
• Blog Post: Stretching the Long Arm of the Law
  This week I have shared the common fate of most citizens summoned to jury duty, milling about in the holding pen for prospective jurors without ever...
  May 3, 2012
• In The News: UN Security Council Expands North Korea Sanctions
  Jeffrey Laurenti quoted in Voices of America.
  Apr 16, 2012
• In The News: Storms Brew in Pyongyang
  Morton Abramowitz published in the National Interest.
  Apr 6, 2012