Category Special Content

Editors' Updates, Special Content

Available on Project Muse: The SAIS Review’s (44.1) Print Issue, After the Dust Settles: How the World Rebuilds After Crisis

May 16, 2024

In the last century, the world has entered an era of multilateralism where coalitions of states collaborate on myriad issues, creating a framework of global governance and pursuing collective action to address transnational issues. As events like the COVID-19 pandemic…

Civil Society, Middle East, Photo Essays

Freefalling Afghanistan: A Pictorial Journey Through Two-and-a-Half Years of Taliban Rule

April 28, 2024

February 2020 Doha Accord holds the secret of the Taliban’s freedom and rule in Afghanistan. This picture was taken when the Taliban fighters were cruising through Kabul’s streets, triumphing over the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) and celebrating…

Editors' Updates, Special Content

Available on Project Muse: The SAIS Review’s (43.2) Print Issue, Water Wars

February 29, 2024

Volume 43, Issue 2 of The SAIS Review of International Affairs is now available from Project Muse here. The SAIS Review is dedicated to advancing the debate on leading contemporary issues of world affairs. The SAIS Review publishes essays that straddle the boundary…

Book Reviews, Regional, Security & Conflict

A Third Approach to the Contemporary Just War Tradition

December 26, 2023

In today’s increasingly polarized international community, the criteria defining a just war—that is a war deemed morally or theologically just—are subject to intense debate. In Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition, Christian Nikolaus Braun illustrates the…

Book Reviews, Regional, Security & Conflict

Beijing’s Global Media Offensive by Joshua Kurlantzick

November 30, 2023

Ahead of the 2023 BRICS Summit in South Africa, the front page of the Cape Times featured two different stories on China which highlighted Beijing’s multifaceted campaign to influence media and shape narratives around the world. The first was a…

Asia Pacific, Book Reviews, North America, Security & Conflict

Cold Rivals: The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition edited by Evan S. Medeiros

November 8, 2023

Evan S. Medeiros offers a useful collection of essays that examine US-China relations from the 1970s towards our more recent, turbulent days. The defining characterization of US-China relations throughout the book is one of “strategic competition” among rivals. This is…

Europe, Governance & Law, Interviews, Policy & Politics

A Conversation with Charles Dunst: On Defeating the Dictators

June 5, 2023

Charles Dunst is the author of Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman. In a world where democracy is in decline and autocracy is on the rise, Dunst argues autocracy is not the solution…

Book Reviews, Economics, Governance & Law, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, South America, Topical

Parque Central in Guatemala City, Guatemala

A Development Journey: Non-stop from the Northern Triangle of Central America to Denmark?

September 1, 2022

Review of: Neil Shenai, Escaping the Governance Trap:Economic Reform in the Northern Triangle, (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Pivot, 2022). David F. Varela Sr. is a second-year Doctor of International Affairs (DIA) student at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.…

Asia Pacific, Book Reviews, Economics, International Development, Regional, Special Content, Topical, Uncategorized

Book Review: Aid Imperium by Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr.

August 19, 2022

Review of: Aid imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia by Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. University of Michigan Press, 2021. How does foreign aid affect recipient nations’ human rights conditions? What determines whether…

Book Reviews, Economics, Energy & Environment, North America, Policy & Politics

Review: Robert Vitalis’ Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security that Haunt U.S. Energy Policy

June 13, 2022

Of all the myths and fabrications that exist in political discourse, few are more stubbornly persistent than the scarcity of resources and the policies supposedly needed to control them. Today, that discourse has converged around one definitive commodity: oil. The…

Editors' Updates, Special Content

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Available on Project Muse: The SAIS Review’s Latest Print Issue, Conflict in the Fifth Domain

May 12, 2022

We are excited to announce that you can now view our 41.2 issue, Conflict in the Fifth Domain, online at Project Muse. A variety of public and private sector experts contributed to this timely issue on cybersecurity, including discussions on…

Asia Pacific, Book Reviews, Governance & Law, Security & Conflict

A photo of a part of Kashmir, depicting a green valley, snowy mountains, and a horse.

Review: Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal (Eds.) Kashmir and the Future of South Asia

December 31, 2021

Kashmir and the Future of South Asia edited by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal examines the Kashmir crisis from a people-centered approach using a framework of state sovereignty and national security. The authors use the Kashmir crisis to illustrate how…