Africa, International Development

Moroccan Decentralization: Towards Community Development and National Solidarity

September 16, 2021

Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir first introduced us to development and decentralization in Morocco in 2018. In this new piece, he re-examines and updates Morocco’s progress towards sustainable development. Background…

Europe, North America, Security & Conflict

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Summons to Appear: NotPetya and the War Exclusion Clause

August 17, 2021

Introduction On June 27, 2017, a red and black skull flashed across hundreds of PCs across the world. The malware, known as NotPetya, spread rapidly and indiscriminately, integrating…

Editors' Updates, Special Content

Now Available: The SAIS Review’s Newest Issue on the Intersection of Gender and International Affairs

August 12, 2021

We are thrilled to share that our 41.1 issue, Who Runs The World: A Look at Gender in International Affairs, is now available on Project Muse. This issue…

Governance & Law, North America, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

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The United States Should Revive the Arctic Executive Steering Committee

August 2, 2021

The United States has set its sights on the Arctic as an emerging region of importance for US national security. In the past two years alone, the Department…

Africa, Governance & Law, Policy & Politics

Power, Strategy, and Outcomes in Negotiations in The Gambia

May 19, 2021

Introduction According to Bill Zartman, power is defined as the “ability by one party to move another in an intended direction.”[1]Power relates to physical force, but many aspects…

Europe, Security & Conflict

Russia Is Receding, Not Resurging: Why the United States Should Forego Another Containment Strategy

April 25, 2021

Is Russia resurgent? Some Kremlinologists would respond “yes” after its saber-rattling over Ukraine, transnational cyberattacks, and nuclear weapon modernizations over the past few years. In January, former US…

Civil Society, North America, Policy & Politics

Finding Common Ground: The Effect of Geography on Domestic and Foreign Policy

April 21, 2021

Americans face a broad array of challenges at home and abroad. The physical, economic, and social effects of climate change; the dislocations caused by human migration; the health…

Editors' Updates, Special Content

SAIS Review’s Newest Issue ‘The Revolution Will Be Televised: A Decade of Global Protest’ Available Online

The SAIS Review
March 6, 2021

We are excited to announce that our 40.2 issue, The Revolution Will Be Televised: A Decade of Global Protest, is now available on Project Muse. This issue examines…

Asia Pacific, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

The United States Needs India and Taiwan to Counterbalance China: Will the “Milk Tea Alliance” Work?

March 5, 2021

The White House declassified one of its most sensitive operational policies, the “U.S. strategic framework for the Indo-Pacific,” as part of the final maneuvers of Donald Trump’s presidency in early…

Civil Society, South America

Chile 2010-2020: The Contentious Decade

February 18, 2021

If contention describes a state of sustained, massive protest combining peaceful, disruptive, and violent tactics, then the decade of the 2010s may be considered the most contentious in…

Africa, Policy & Politics

Africa Is Not a Region, and Policymakers Should Stop Treating It Like One

February 11, 2021

With the new presidential administration in the United States, numerous articles have been published which suggest initiatives for the Biden administration, including from such Washington institutions as the…

Asia Pacific, Book Reviews, Civil Society, Governance & Law, Special Content

Dapiran Observes a City on the Edge

January 21, 2021

In the waning days of Hong Kong’s 2014 student-lead Umbrella Movement, a hanging black banner read a prophetic message: We’ll Be Back. In 2019, those words came to…