Category Governance & Law

Asia Pacific, Economics, Governance & Law, North America, Policy & Politics

How China’s Political System Discourages Innovation and Encourages IP Theft

Glenn Chafetz
July 31, 2023

U.S. observers have long complained that Chinese firms steal intellectual property (IP) from American companies, universities, and research institutions.¹ Most of these complaints stress that the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) directs this theft. Other analysts focus…

Governance & Law, North America, Policy & Politics

Unmoored from the UN: The Struggle to Ratify UNCLOS in the United States

John Kraus
June 26, 2023

On July 9, 1982, after three series of multilateral conferences spanning decades of rigorous negotiations, President Ronald Reagan formally announced that the United States would not sign the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), on the…

Europe, Governance & Law, Interviews, Policy & Politics

A Conversation with Charles Dunst: On Defeating the Dictators

Charles Dunst
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…

Economics, Governance & Law, Middle East, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, Topical

Rethinking Irish Migration Governance: Why Refugees and Asylum Seekers Must Be Meaningfully Included in Policymaking Decisions

Serena Clark
May 10, 2023

Serena Clark recently finished a consultancy at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), UN Migration. She recently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Maynooth University. She holds a doctorate in global politics from Trinity College Dublin, where she was a…

Economics, Governance & Law, Middle East, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, Topical

Negotiating With Gangs: Lessons From the 2012 Truce in El Salvador

Siniša Vuković and Eric Rahman
April 24, 2023

Siniša Vuković is a Senior Lecturer of Conflict Management and Global Policy and Director of the Master of Arts Global Policy Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Eric Rahman is a Foreign Service Officer with the US Department…

Economics, Governance & Law, Middle East, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, Topical

Book Review: Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers by Yan Xuetong

David B. Kanin
April 17, 2023

David B. Kanin is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Review of: Yan Xuetong, Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers, (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2019, pp. 262). What follows is a…

Economics, Governance & Law, Middle East, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, Topical

Integration Meets Insecurity: How Paraguay is Shaping South America’s Center

Greg Ross
April 8, 2023

Policymakers across the Western Hemisphere often lament Latin America’s lack of regional integration. On average, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean conduct the least international trade as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) in the world. Broadly, this…

Economics, Governance & Law, Middle East, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, Topical

Twelve Years of War in Syria: Why is Citizenship Off the Table for Syrian Refugees in Jordan?

Zoe H. Robbin and Zeid Qiblawi
March 14, 2023

Zoe H. Robbin is a Fulbright research fellow in Amman, Jordan. She co-leads Foreign Policy for America’s NextGen Diplomacy Working Group. The views expressed here do not represent the views of the Fulbright Program, the US Department of State, or…

Asia Pacific, Economics, Governance & Law, International Development, Policy & Politics, Regional, Topical

Book Excerpt: The Migration-Development Regime

Rina Agarwala
December 14, 2022

Rina Agarwala is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Introduction, pages 1-22, The Migration-Development Regime by Rina Agarwala, 2022, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. Chapter 1: Introduction “Let me make one thing clear,” Dr. Singh began. “We…

Governance & Law, North America, Policy & Politics, Regional, Security & Conflict, South America, Topical

A Holistic Approach Towards International Counternarcotics Cooperation

Rahul Gupta and Todd D. Robinson
October 21, 2022

Dr. Rahul Gupta is the Director of National Drug Control Policy. Todd D. Robinson is the Assistant Secretary for the US Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. Introduction We recently traveled together to Colombia to…

Governance & Law, Policy & Politics, Regional, South America, Topical

Luiz Inacio da Silva speaking at the FAO conference in 2008.

Lula and Bolsonaro, A World Apart on the World Stage

Andre Pagliarini
September 27, 2022

Andre Pagliarini is an assistant professor of history at Hampden-Sydney College, a columnist at Brazilian Report, and a faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office. There is not much in common between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the center-left former…

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?

David F. Varela Sr.
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.…