Category: Dialogues

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Professor Robert Beckman on the Role of UNCLOS in Maritime Disputes

GJIA: Could you briefly outline the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and explain why it is significant in the handling of maritime disputes, especially…

May 6, 2021

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Resilience Is Key to Resist Climate Change with Alice Hill

GJIA: To set the stage, do you mind explaining more about what climate resilience means?  AH: What climate resilience means is a little squishy because resilience is such a…

May 4, 2021

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Professor Bruce Hoffman on Domestic Terrorism

GJIA: How would you define terrorism, and what exactly falls under it? BH: My definition of terrorism is slightly different from the US government’s. Their definition is that…

April 21, 2021

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Daniel Byman on Addressing White Supremacy

GJIA: We have seen white supremacist threats in the past, but in light of the Capitol riots, extremism seems to have garnered much greater concern in the United States and. …

March 6, 2021

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Amb. Ong Keng Yong on the Role of ASEAN

GJIA: Perhaps you could begin by telling us a bit about your time in the foreign service. OKY: I joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after I graduated from law school at the…

February 26, 2021

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Professor Cherian George on Hate Propaganda and Democracy

GJIA: In your book Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy, you show that the term ‘hate speech’ insufficiently describes the use of…

February 11, 2021

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Amb. Frank Lavin on Trade with China Under the Biden Administration

GJIA: You have recently referred to the US president-elect Joe Biden as generally pro-trade from a left-of-center perspective. Yet, trade–specifically undoing the current…

December 13, 2020

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Dr. Charles Schmitz on the Yemeni Civil War’s Past, Present, and Future

GJIA: What actions are being taken to combat the current crisis in Yemen in terms of short-term and long-term relief? CS: At the moment, we are kind of going backwards. The…

December 11, 2020

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PART II: Dr. Hal Singer on How to Best Regulate Big Tech

GJIA: In a recent article you authored on ProMarket, you discussed the idea of pre-distribution antitrust, where the government intervenes before an industry tips towards a…

December 4, 2020

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PART I: Dr. Hal Singer on How to Best Regulate Big Tech

GJIA: Both the United States and the European Union have been increasingly scrutinizing technology giants. Most recently, the House of Representatives Antitrust Subcommittee…

November 27, 2020