Category: Dialogues
128 Articles
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Dr. Yasmine Farouk on Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Policy
GJIA: What are Saudi Arabia’s current regional priorities in regard to foreign policy? YF: The first priority right now on the Saudi agenda is to end their war in Yemen because…
May 24, 2021
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Dr. Kenneth Pollack on the Future of the Abraham Accords under President Biden
GJIA: In the aftermath of the Abraham Accords, you argued in Foreign Policy that the Accords “are bringing to an end the great Middle Eastern conflict of the 20th century, but…
May 7, 2021
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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