Current Issue

“Climate—Change is Inevitable” is the theme of the twenty-first edition of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. This issue addresses humanity’s most consequential challenge the way few countries or decision-makers have been willing to: head-on, with the hope of confronting the threat in pursuit of a better world. With insights from practitioners, experts, and academics from around the globe, this edition provides a full and robust picture of the intersecting impacts of climate change and insights on how we must respond—from business to security to culture and beyond. View our Current Issue on Project MUSE.

Table of Contents

  • Editors’ Note
    Emily Dougherty, Aaron Baum 
  • Foreword
    Mark Giordano 

Forum: Climate—Change Is Inevitable

  • The Climate Crisis as a National Security Risk
    Chad Briggs
  • Climate Change, Livelihoods, and Conflict in the Sahel
    Ahmadou Aly Mbaye
  • Trouble in Pacific Paradise: A Call for Merging Traditional and Modern Tools of Climate Protection
    Fale Andrew Lesa
  • The True Costs of Wildlife Trafficking
    Sharon Guynup, Chris R. Shepherd, Loretta Shepherd

Dialogues

  • An Interview with Aleksander Kwasniewski, Former President of Poland
    Conducted by Ava Tavzarich 
  • An Interview with John Podesta, Former White House Chief of Staff and President of the Center for American Progress (CAP)
    Conducted by Varsha Menon
  • An Interview with Andrew Burt, Former Special Advisor for Policy at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division
    Conducted by Qianyin Wu
  • An Interview with Michael Szonyi, Director of Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
    Conducted by Steven Vo 

Conflict & Security

  • Beijing’s Intensifying Campaign to Ensure That Tibet Remains a Part of China
    Allen Carlson 
  • Weaponizing Wheat: Russia’s Next Weapon in Pandemic and Climate Eras
    Clara Summers, Sherri Goodman
  • The Cyber Errand into the Wilderness: The Defending Forward Inflection Point
    Matthew J. Flynn

Global Governance

  • Past Futures for the UN Security Council
    Jane Boulden
  • Dig the Well Before You Are Thirsty: China’s Long-Term Resource Strategy
    Greg Gershuny, Anna Giorgi, Calli Obern
  • A Price of Success, or Buyer’s Remorse? The Tension between the United Nations Sanctions and the United States’ Unilateral Approach
    Richard Nephew
  • Averting the Global Water Crisis: Three Considerations for a New Decade of Water Governance
    Cora Kammeyer, Ross Hamilton, Jason Morrison

Business & Economics

  • Has Globalization Gone Too Far—or Not Far Enough?
    Shantayanan Devarajan
  • Security amid Instability: Oil Markets and Attacks in the Persian Gulf
    Jim Krane
  • It’s All in the Business Model: The Internet’s Economic Logic and the Instigation of Disinformation, Hate, and Discrimination
    Dipayan Ghosh
  • The Iran Problem: An Evaluation of US Sanctions on Iran and Global Reactions
    Mazahir Bootwala

Society & Culture

  • The Owl of Minerva: The Political Contributions of Latin American Public Universities
    Carlos Alberto Torres
  • Climate Relocation and Indigenous Culture Preservation in the Pacific Islands
    Lilian Yamamoto
  • China, Africa, and the Private Surveillance Industry
    Samuel Woodhams

Science & Technology

  • Parsing the Digital Biosecurity Landscape
    Diane DiEuliis
  • Toward a New Era of US Engagement with China on Climate Change
    Joanna I. Lewis
  • No Silver Bullet: Fighting Russian Disinformation Requires Multiple Actions
    Terry L. Thompson

Human Rights & Development

  • Justice Denied: Making Sense of State Noncooperation with International Prosecutions
    Marco Bocchese
  • The End of Kafala?: Evaluating Recent Migrant Labor Reforms in Qatar
    Amanda Garrett
  • Shifting Public Opinion in Different Cultural Contexts: Marriage Equality in Taiwan
    Jennifer Lu

Book Reviews

  • Melodrama and Italicized Language in an Era of #MeToo: A 2020 Review of Jeanine Cummins’s American Dirt
    Gabriel Panuco-Mercado
  • Till Populism Do Us Part: A Review of Sheila Smith’s Japan Rearmed
    Quentin Levin
  • The Wrong Side of the Fence: A Review of Nick Thorpe’s The Road before Me Weeps: On the Refugee Route through Europe
    Carly Kabot
  • Truth and Truthiness at the Highest Levels: A Review of Brian Rathbun’s Reasoning of State: Realists, Romantics, and Rationality in International Relations
    J. Killion
  • Consolidating a Field: A Review of James R. Lee’s Environmental Conflict and Cooperation: Premise, Purpose, Persuasion, and Promise
    Bobby Vogel