Tag: Multilateral Institutions & Agreements
188 Articles
- Dialogues
Amb. Ong Keng Yong on the Role of ASEAN
GJIA: Perhaps you could begin by telling us a bit about your time in the foreign service. OKY: I joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after I graduated from law school at the…
February 26, 2021
- Science & Technology
Stemming the Flow: The United States Needs a Strategy to Address China’s Strategic Exportation of Digital Authoritarianism
As the Chinese economy grew exponentially over the past couple decades, so did its capacity to support technological innovation. China’s tech giants have flourished, responding…
February 25, 2021
- Society & Culture
Climate Change and International Migration: The Role of Foreign Aid
Migration has increased dramatically over recent decades. This includes documented and undocumented movements of people within and across borders, as well as refugee flows.…
February 24, 2021
- Global Governance
Marooned Democracy: Climate Change Demands Management, Not Solutionism
Imagine a ship on the ocean with no destination. The goal of the sailors is to individually thrive and for the ship to be safe. They have only recently joined in this cooperative…
February 5, 2021
- Global Governance
Antarctic Geopolitics: Emerging Cracks in the Ice?
The Antarctic: Peace and Science After two years of negotiations, the Antarctic Treaty was signed on December 1, 1959, by twelve states and entered into force on June 23, 1961.…
February 3, 2021
- Business & Economics
US Trade Policy in the Biden Administration: The Challenge of China’s Rise
The Emergence of China as a Focus of US Trade Policy Despite a period of rapid growth between 1979 and 1990 under Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, China…
December 21, 2020
- Business & Economics
Is the Future of Central America’s Growth Sustainable?
Introduction Because of the Central American Common Market and the region’s access to the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, Central America has a strategic trade and investment…
December 18, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
The Growing Case for the Repatriation of Foreign Terror Fighters and their Families
In late August 2020, the United States vetoed a UN Security Council Resolution concerning the prosecution, rehabilitation, and reintegration of foreign terror fighters (FTFs),…
December 17, 2020
- Dialogues
Amb. Frank Lavin on Trade with China Under the Biden Administration
GJIA: You have recently referred to the US president-elect Joe Biden as generally pro-trade from a left-of-center perspective. Yet, trade–specifically undoing the current…
December 13, 2020
- Society & Culture
The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Effects on United Nations Peacekeeping
COVID-19 has taken over one million lives, will likely cost the global economy trillions of dollars, and has created uncertainty and chaos. As a result, more is being asked of…
December 9, 2020