Current Issue

Public Service in a Pandemic-Stricken World is the theme of the twenty-second edition of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, examining service in all its forms as the pandemic ravaged the globe. With insights from practitioners, experts, and academics from around the world, this edition provides a full and robust picture of the costs of COVID-19 and what service to humanity means now and in the future—from business to security to culture and beyond. View our Current Issue on Project MUSE.

Table of Contents

  • Editors’ Note
    Varsha Menon, Duncan Moore
  • Foreword
    Mark Giordano 

Forum: Public Service in a Pandemic-Stricken World

  • Planning for the Next Pandemic: A Global, Interoperable System of Contact Tracing
    John Palfrey, Urs Gasser
  • Coronavirus Cavalry: Amid COVID-19 Chaos, Latin America’s Armed Forces Redeploy at Home
    Benjamin N. Gedan
  • Interview: Ambassador John B. Emerson on the Future of the United States’ Relationship with Germany
    John B. Emerson
  • Fragile Strategies: Getting Pandemic Response Right in Fragile States
    Blaise Misztal
  • Global Humanitarian Governance and the COVID-19 Moment: The Evolution of Sacrifice
    Peter J. Hoffman, Thomas G. Weiss
  • Social Resilience Against COVID-19 Masks Indonesian Class Divide
    Adbil Mughis Mudhoffir, Vedi R. Hadiz

Business and Economics

  • Public-Private Partnerships in Mitigating Illicit Trade in Free Trade Zones
    Piotr Stryszowski

Conflict & Security

  • Societal Mobilization and the Fall of the Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn in Greece
    Antonis A. Ellinas
  • Contact Tracing for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems? Governance Mechanisms to Enhance Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
    Aiden Warren, Alek Hillas

Dialogues

  • Interview: Dr. Milan Vaishnav on the Threats to India’s Democracy
    Milan Vaishnav

Human Rights and Development

  • Mobilizing Decentralized, Participatory Energy Transition in Morocco
    Yossef Ben-Meir, Kerstin Opfer, Imane Akhezzane
  • COVID-19, China, and African Development: Crisis, Continuity, or Readjustment?
    Pippa Morgan
  • Crime and No Punishment? China’s Abuses Against the Uyghurs
    James Waller, Mariana Salazar Albornoz

Science and Technology

  • Should We Govern Geoengineering like Nuclear Weapons or the Internet?
    Elizabeth L. Chalecki

Society and Culture

  • Policy Planning for the Post-Pandemic World: The Chronic Illness and Mental Health Needs of Tens of Millions of COVID-19 Survivors
    Janet E. Rosenbaum, Shifra Mincer

Student Review

  • Nationalism and the European Union: A Review of Britain & Europe in a Troubled World by Vernon Bogdanor
    Jialan Deal
  • America, the Bordered: A Review of Charles A. Kupchan’s Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World
    Rachel Li
  • Setting the Wrong Standard: A Review of Separated
    Carly Kabot
  • China’s Developmental Shadow: A Review of Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise by Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell
    Neval Mulaomerovic