On January 29th, the British Parliament voted on a series of proposed amendments to change the course of Brexit negotiations. Most were voted down, but Members of Parliament (MPs) supported…
On January 31st, the Mortara Center for International Studies hosted Ambassador John Heffern as a panelist in a discussion of the challenges and consequences of the Brexit movement. Dialogues sat…
In December 2018, Dialogues sat down with American Enterprise Institute research fellow Dr. Dalibor Rohac to discuss Brexit, right-wing populism, and the struggle to maintain democratic ideals in Europe and…
The United States has an extensive global network of security partnerships, the most important of which are in East Asia and Europe. U.S. allies in both regions are under…
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the Fall 2018 edition of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, available for purchase from Georgetown University Press. For a PDF of this…
The first decades of the 21st century have seen, at the global level, two alarming socio-political trends within democratic countries: the increasing level of economic inequality and citizens’ strong dissatisfaction…
Since the end of World War II, the world has looked at the Jewish history in Poland through the prism of gas chambers and crematoria. A vibrant Jewish heritage has…
Since the Syrian civil war began in March 2011, over 6.1 million Syrians have been internally displaced, while an estimated 5.6 million more have fled the country. Within the…
On February 12, the Georgetown International Relations Club welcomed Ambassador Vasko Naumovski of Macedonia. Following the panel event, Five Minutes with an Expert met with the ambassador to discuss topical…
As European authorities watched thousands of aspiring jihadists leave their countries to fight in Iraq and Syria in 2012 and 2013, few laws were in place to prevent them from…