GJIA recently sat down with Georgetown University Professor Dr. Charles Kupchan to discuss how he sees global power shifting in the coming decades and how the United States should adjust…
This summer the Berkley Center’s Fellowship for Education and Social Justice took me to meet a special group of people who inhabit small corners of Paris and its outskirts. Apartments in…
In a recent article for Foreign Affairs, Robert Ross argues that America’s so-called “pivot” to Asia—America’s strategic refocusing on the Asia-Pacific—is bad news. Ross lays out various examples…
While returning home from school in the Swat Valley of Pakistan on October 9, 2012 Malala Yousafzai, 14 was shot by the Pakistani Taliban in an attempt on her life.
Historians and political scientists have traditionally divided countries into status quo and revisionist powers. The former tend to accept the existing international system as it is, while the latter reject…
What is Brazil up to? That is the question national security planners should be asking. Since abandoning its nuclear weapons program in the late 1990s, Brazil has appeared…
When asked what it would take to ensure an atomic bomb was not smuggled into Washington, D.C., Dr. Robert Oppenheimer replied: “a screwdriver”—to open every single suitcase in the city.
Former U.S. Ambassador James Keith recently sat down with the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs to discuss China’s leadership transition and U.S. policy towards China. GJIA: China will be undergoing…
In a recent interview with The Diplomat, Professor Kenneth Waltz discussed the advantages of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. An eminent and lucid scholar, Waltz committed the error of trying…
As the crisis in Syria deepens, world powers have become more divided over how to resolve this crisis. The death toll exceeds 12,000, according to the United Nations. In an…
