Stewart M. Patrick

The Internationalist

Patrick assesses the future of world order, state sovereignty, and multilateral cooperation.

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The Nuclear Security Summit: Five Tests of Success in Seoul

by Stewart M. Patrick
South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak (L) shakes hands with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani as he arrives for a working dinner at the Nuclear Security Summit on March 26, 2012. (Yuriko Naka/Courtesy Reuters) South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak (L) shakes hands with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani as he arrives for a working dinner at the Nuclear Security Summit on March 26, 2012. (Yuriko Naka/Courtesy Reuters)

As more than fifty-three world leaders convene in Seoul, South Korea for the second global Nuclear Security Summit, North Korea has—predictably—attempted to steal the show by threatening to launch a “satellite” (aka long-range missile) next month. Pyongyang’s latest calculated provocation, though, should not be permitted to overshadow the significance and seriousness of the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit and its potential impact to bolster the global nuclear nonproliferation regime. Read more »

PSI: A Model for Multilateral Action?

by Stewart M. Patrick

A member of the Australian Navy searches a ship playing the role of a vessel carrying suspected materials during a naval drill of the Proliferation Security Initiative Exercise (PSI) at Yokosuka port, south of Tokyo, October 14, 2007. Japan, the U.S., Australia, France, New Zealand and Singapore took part in the three-day naval drill to improve their capability to prevent possible transport of weapons of mass destruction by sea (Kim Kyung-Hoon/ Reuters).

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