The decolonization that spanned across the 20th century dramatically reshaped our world, but what often escapes common knowledge about this period is that anticolonial intellectuals and statesmen did not only envision decolonization as a campaign for national sovereignty but as an effort to fundamentally counter global hierarchies of material wealth and race.  Adom Getachew narrates these transcontinental efforts of Pan-African leaders in her 2019 book Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination.  In this interview, GJIA explores the historical insights of her book as well as how contemporary projects for worldmaking can learn from the past century. We additionally discuss further lessons for a world after empire from the volume guest edited by Getachew, Imagining Global Futures.

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Only within recent years has race become a common analytical framework within mainstream international relations (IR) theory. Alexander Barder argues in his book Global Race War that the dominant paradigms of international relations are rooted in historical racial hierarchies and power relations. GJIA discusses the implications of this theory for not only political hotspots, but also for International Relations courses as microcosms of imperial ideology.

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Since 2019, Kenyans from the Kipsigis and Talai people have sought reparative compensation for their evictions enforced by the British military in favor of white settler-owned tea plantations across decades of colonial rule. In 2021, Fabian Salvioli, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparations, and guarantees of non-recurrence, issued three reports that backed Kipsigis and Talai demands to rectify their historical claims of land dispossession during the colonial era. In an interview with Mr. Salvioli, the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs contextualizes this reparative controversy within broader questions of UN-backed transitional justice and the legacies of colonialism.

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Reparations for large-scale atrocities such as slavery and colonialism have increasingly developed as a political demand for populations descended from historically harmed groups. The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs sat down with Olufemi Taiwo, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, to discuss his novel approach to reparations that stresses a global, material, and progressive outlook: the constructive view of reparations.

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The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs sits down with Margaret Huang, the Executive Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, to discuss the recent rising proliferation of white nationalist extremism.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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