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international relations

Protester holds sign reading
Q+A
An end to Hong Kong as we know it?
Published July 4, 2020
Beijing enacts new security law aimed at stamping out opposition to ruling communist party, extinguishing business interests and fragile democratic freedoms along with it
Francis Gavin and Eric Schmidt
Global affairs
Experts imagine a post-pandemic world
Published July 1, 2020
Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins hosts a two-day forum exploring our shifting geopolitical landscape
Chinese sanitation worker rests on roadside
Q+A
East Asia responses offer mixed lessons
Published May 13, 2020
How COVID-19 has been handled in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, and Japan are a reflection of key capabilities in some countries, erosion of civil liberties in others
Darcie Draudt teaches Star Trek and Diplomacy Intersession class
Intersession 2020
Interstellar diplomacy
Published Jan 24, 2020
Students analyze the ways in which the 24th century tactics of the Starfleet Command provide a useful lens for understanding international relations today
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
East Berliners scale the Berlin Wall at night
Q+A
The accidental fall of the Berlin Wall
Published Nov 5, 2019
When the Berlin Wall opened 30 years ago, it created a fracture in the Iron Curtain and safe passage out of Soviet territory
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
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
Petraeus gestures and looks at Nasr, who listens with a hand on his chin
Foreign policy
Lessons learned on and off the battlefield
Published Sept 29, 2017
David Petraeus, the retired four-star general who commanded coalition forces during the military surge in Iraq, speaks at SAIS
Foreign policy
Teaching the 'practice of statecraft'
Published Oct 11, 2016
Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs will serve as focal point for scholarship, public debate on international affairs and policy