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Jeremy Wallace and Jessica Chen Weiss
Foreign affairs
Renowned China experts join SAIS
Published June 12, 2024
Jessica Chen Weiss, Jeremy Wallace will join a new SAIS institute designed to foster deeper understanding and informed policymaking on the evolving role of China in the world
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stand at a podium in front of a blue backdrop; part of an American flag is visible over his right shoulder
Brzezinski Lecture
Blinken makes impassioned case for American diplomacy
Published Sept 13, 2023
Secretary of state was the inaugural speaker in the main auditorium at the new Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C.
Overlaid on an American map are various types of food, including dumplings and sushi
Changing hearts, minds, and stomachs
Published Spring 2023
SAIS alumni Téa Ivanovic and Peter Schechter founded Immigrant Food to defend the vision of America as an immigrant nation / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Madeleine Albright
In memoriam
Madeleine Albright, first female U.S. secretary of state, dies at 84
Published March 23, 2022
Albright studied Russian and international relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in the 1960s
Nuclear warhead aboard a truck
Q+A
Russia's nuclear option
Published March 11, 2022
Francis Gavin, an expert in foreign policy, statecraft, and nuclear proliferation, discusses this delicate stage of Russia's conflict in Ukraine
Qassim Suleimani's grave
Commentary
Suleimani assassination 'pulverizes' U.S. influence in Middle East
Published Jan 6, 2020
JHU experts on the Middle East, international relations, and political science discuss the role Qassim Suleimani played in Iran's military and the potential fallout from his assassination by U.S. drone strike
Stuart Schrader
Q+A
American policing in the Cold War era
Published Oct 16, 2019
In his new book, Stuart Schrader explores how U.S. foreign policy designed to contain communism abroad informed approaches to law enforcement at home
Stars from the flag
National security
A strategy for U.S. strength and security
Published Dec 28, 2018
APL senior fellows author a strategy document outlining how the U.S. can navigate an uncertain geopolitical climate
Bill Gates
Global health
'I hope countries will compete in generosity'
Published June 27, 2018
Philanthropist and tech giant Bill Gates visits SAIS for discussion of the U.S. foreign aid budget and what it means for health care in the developing world
A street in Havana
International Relations
Jousting with Fidel
Published Summer 2018
SAIS alum Vicki Huddleston reflects on her experience as informal ambassador to Cuba and her tense relationship with Fidel Castro / Johns Hopkins Magazine