Regimes & Governance

Israel’s reluctance due to national security concerns and Saudi Arabia’s conditional support, coupled with the lack of credible enforcement measures, raise doubts about the viability for a Middle East Weapons…

Historians and political scientists have traditionally divided countries into status quo and revisionist powers. The former tend to accept the existing international system as it is, while the latter reject…

What is Brazil up to? That is the question national security planners should be asking. Since abandoning its nuclear weapons program in the late 1990s, Brazil has appeared…

In a recent interview with The Diplomat, Professor Kenneth Waltz discussed the advantages of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. An eminent and lucid scholar, Waltz committed the error of trying…

Earlier this week, Georgetown student Eirene Busa interviewed two first-time Georgetown professors, Jason Bruder and Frank Jannuzi, about Russia-China relations. Bruder and Jannuzi work together on the Senate Foreign Relations…

On March 4th many voters attested to choosing Vladimir Putin because he represents “stability,” and because they can be sure that “nothing will change.”…

Read Arabinda and Amitav Acharya’s piece here In the Georgetown Journal’s 2001 winter issue, Arabinda Acharya and Amitav Acharya co-authored a piece reviewing security issues in a nuclear South…

On January 26th, 2012 historian John McNeill sat down with the Georgetown Journal to discuss America’s declining power, US-China relations and the potential formation of a global state. [GJIA] Those…

In the GJIA Summer/Fall 2011 issue ,Shadi Hamid’s article, “An Unfinished Revolution,” predicted a difficult transition for Egypt as it shifted from dictatorship to a democracy. Hamid, the…

Ambassador David Passage (Retired) (Georgetown MSFS ’66) corresponded with Barrett Helmer (MSFS ’13) about US foreign policy in Latin America, China’s rise and the upcoming US presidential election. GJIA: You…