Hardly a year goes by without learned assessments that under the pressure of internal and regional challenges, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’s luck may run out. However, this “weak man” of the Middle East continues to be one of the region’s islands of relative stability.
Join the Editorial Board of The SAIS Review of International Affairs for a roundtable lunch and discussion on the role of the media in international affairs with three expert contributors to SAIS Review’s Fall 2018 issue, The State of the Fourth Estate.
The United States will not tolerate any other power establishing “exclusive hegemonic control” over Asia or the Pacific, according to renowned Asia scholar Michael Green. In a magisterial work, Green argues persuasively that this anti-hegemonic impulse has been the central driver of American grand strategy toward the Asia-Pacific for over two centuries.
When discussing elections, people tend to focus on the candidates and the outcome. When they ask, "Who won?" they mean which of the candidates got the most votes. In this issue of the SAIS Review, we change the focus to the other actors using elections. Through nine articles, we will see that voting can produce winners and losers who are not on the ballot: institutions, foreign countries, and the political system itself can all be strengthened or weakened depending on how the voting happens.
This issue of the SAIS Review explores the interaction between migration, foreign policy, and the international system. The sections address the failures of international aid and assistance in handling migration crises, the use of migration crises for political purposes, and the causes and effects of future migration crises. Additionally, former senior officials give their views on the state of migration and world affairs today.
"What is the future of the religious party? In this issue of the SAIS Review of International Affairs, a myriad group of authors probe this question in its multiple facets, considering the perspectives of many religions, cultures, and regions." For instance, there are attempts to reconcile the causes behind the weakening of Christian Democratic parties in Europe with the rise of religious based parties in Turkey, India, Russia and elsewhere. Clearly, religion and politics are still intertwined in many parts of the world in the 21st century.
Dr. Gerald E. Galloway, from the University of Maryland, gave a speech at SAIS about why the effects of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria were so damaging to the United States. He then linked the effects of the disasters to the necessity of proper development in order to avert future disasters. He concluded by recommending that Congress re-brand climate change as a national security concern in order to improve climate change's position in the national discourse.
Dr. John Olushola Magbadelo, Director for Research at the Centre for African & Asian Studies (Abuja, Nigeria), reviews "The Political Economy of Sustainable Development: Policy Instruments and Market Mechanisms" by Timothy Cadman, et al.
The new issue of the SAIS Review of International Affairs is now available for purchase from JHU Press: “Modern Populism and Foreign Policy” The SAIS Review is dedicated to advancing the debate on leading contemporary issues of world affairs. The…
The new issue of the SAIS Review of International Affairs is now available for purchase from JHU Press: “Flying the Flag: Considering Nationalism in its Modern Incarnation” The SAIS Review is dedicated to advancing the debate on leading contemporary issues…
Tenzin Norgary, a Senior Fellow at the Tibet Policy Institute, reviews Sulmaan Wasif Khan's recent book "Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands."
Richard Purcell, a SAIS alum and freelance writer covering international security affairs, reviews Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger's new book, "ISIS: The State of Terror."
