Category: Online Archive
160 Articles
- Dialogues
- Online Archive
No One’s World, with Dr. Charles Kupchan
GJIA: In your book, No One’s World, and elsewhere, you have argued America is entering a period of relative decline and new powers are emerging, particularly among the BRIC…
November 18, 2012
- Online Archive
A Russian Atlantis
Discovering and exploring the culture that White émigrés preserved after fleeing the Bolshevik revolution, I found that these former aristocrats, theologians, musicians, and…
November 12, 2012
- Global Governance
- Online Archive
America’s ‘Pivot’ To Asia: Evolutionary not Reactionary
While Chinese actions certainly may have pushed American diplomats and security officials to conclude a pivot to Asia was needed, such a shift in terms of military power—which…
November 4, 2012
- Human Rights & Development
- Online Archive
Malala and Kainat: Voices of Courage
Malala has fought long and hard for her rights. Beginning at the age of just 11, in the face of a 2009 decree by the Pakistani Taliban banning female education, Malala spoke out…
November 1, 2012
- Global Governance
- Online Archive
It’s Time to Revise How We Talk About Revisionist Powers
There is a conceptual problem in ascribing the term revisionist to describe the respective foreign policy goals to international actors, such as Napoleonic France, modern Iran,…
October 29, 2012
- Global Governance
- Online Archive
What is Brazil Up to with its Nuclear Policy?
Relations with Argentina, its longtime rival, have warmed and the two states even cooperate on nuclear and other security issues. Compared to the Middle East, South America is…
October 10, 2012
- Conflict & Security
- Online Archive
A Better Plan for Port Security
Checking every shipping container entering American ports encumbers commercial activity, places an unnecessary burden on ports authority, and does little to deter terrorists and…
September 11, 2012
- Dialogues
- Online Archive
The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Five Minutes with Ambassador James Keith
GJIA: China will be undergoing a leadership transition over the next several months. What kind of changes, if any, should we expect from the new Chinese leadership? JK: Well,…
August 27, 2012
- Global Governance
- Online Archive
Iran and the Threat of Nuclear Weapons: A Response to Kenneth Waltz
An eminent and lucid scholar, Waltz committed the error of trying to fit an incorrect piece of a puzzle into a coherent theory. His theory whereby nuclear powers have never gone…
August 20, 2012
- Conflict & Security
- Online Archive
Iran Looms Large in Russia’s and China’s Positions on Syria
It is widely argued that Russian and Chinese economic and strategic interests embedded in the survival of the Assad’s regime have outweighed their humanitarian concerns.…
July 18, 2012