37th & the World

In this special episode of "37th and the World," GJIA hosted a panel on April 6th with the Yale Journal of International Affairs (YJIA) titled "Contemporary Threats to the Global Supply Chain." We were joined by three guests: Sarah Morgan (Senior Government Relations Officer at the International Labor Organization), Levent Altinoglu (Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors), and Jared Webber (Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company Manufacturing and Supply Chain).

Georgetown Journal of International Affairs sits down with Mr. Michael Kugelman, the Deputy Director of the South Asia Program at the Wilson Center, to discuss Pakistan's foreign policy as a rising power in the South Asian region.

In the wake of tensions in Ukraine, the migrant crisis in Belarus, and potential sanctions on Nord Stream 2, the world is speculating how Russia's regional policies will impact the United States' security and diplomacy. Professor Jill Dougherty, former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief and current CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent, joins GJIA to discuss the implications of Russian strategy in Eastern Europe and Asia. 

The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine is the most recent event out of a series of crises that have challenged European foreign affairs and geopolitical cohesion. This issue is at the core of the theme of the Transatlantic Policy Symposium (TAPS), “Toward a Geostrategic Europe?” In anticipation of TAPS, a graduate student-run conference at Georgetown University's BMW Center for German and European Studies, I asked one of the symposium co-chairs, Nick Lokker, about the content and anticipated events at the conference to be held on Friday, March 18th.  More information about the event is available here.

Relations between China and western nations have been strained for centuries, and both sides have sought out various models of economic interdependence. As China reaches a new, challenging stage in its economic development, Dr. Alicia Garcia Herrero, Chief Economist for Asia-Pacific at the French investment bank Natixis, discusses the motives behind China's economic policy. 

In light of the alarming surge of Covid-19 infections in India, pressure has mounted on developed nations to improve equity in global vaccine distribution. Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, joins GJIA to discuss how the United States can improve global vaccine distribution, including the recent Biden administration decision to support intellectual property waivers for vaccines.

As the conversation around climate change progresses, climate resilience has slowly gained attention as a necessary component to mitigating climate change's worst effects. GJIA sat down with Alice Hill, former special assistant to President Barack Obama and current senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, to discuss climate resilience and its often overlooked significance in the conversation around climate change.

As the United States grapples with the aftermath of the Capitol riots, Dr. Daniel Byman, Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, joined GJIA on February 22nd, 2021 to break down the drivers of the growing white supremacy movement, its increasingly globalized nature, and how the United States and its allies should respond.

While the Yemeni Civil War war has continued since 2015, the Yemeni people have suffered, creating the world's largest humanitarian crisis; thousands of civilians have died as a result of the Saudi-led coalition's airstrike and preventable causes like malnutrition, disease, and poor health. Professor Charles Schmitz joins GJIA to uncover what actions are currently being taken to combat the crisis, the root causes aside from the war that contributed to the economic collapse, and the probability of political negotiations in the future. 

On November 23, 2020, Ambassador Frank Lavin sat down with GJIA to discuss prospects under a new presidency for ending the three-year old trade war. The conversation lays out obstacles to a “reset” faced by a president with clearer pro-trade leanings, including Beijing's entrenched belief in the inevitability of its superior long-term economic trajectory and dismissal of American objections as rooted in spite.

In 1995, tens of thousands of activists gathered in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women to develop a framework to advance gender equality. In light of the conference's 25th anniversary, The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) published Beijing+25: Accelerating Progress for Women and Girls to reflect and provide a roadmap to advance gender equity. GJIA sat down with Dr. Jeni Klugman, managing director of GIWPS, to discuss the report, including new challenges for women in the era of COVID-19.

As American and European governments propose new rules to regulate the growing monopoly power of technology giants, Dr. Hal Singer, Managing Director of Econ One, joins GJIA to discuss the future of Big Tech. In this interview, he discusses the effects of monopolization in the digital space and how the government should go about regulating technology firms.

GJIA sat down with Dr. Ervand Abrahamian, Distinguished Professor of History at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, on October 25, 2020, to discuss the current direction of Iranian politics and the effects of four years of increased confrontation with Washington.