Brown Journal of World Affairs
The Brown Journal of World Affairs is a biannual academic journal of international relations and foreign policy produced at Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University . It was founded in 1993 as the Brown Journal of Foreign Affairs by Daniel Cruise, Alex Scribner, and Michael Soussan . The journal features essays written by world leaders, policymakers, and prominent academics. Each issue is composed of three thematic sections dedicated to exploring different topics in contemporary international politics and economics. In addition, each issue includes an open essay section, in which a wide variety of global issues are discussed.[ 1]
BJWA's editing headquarters, located in Brown's Watson Institute
The Journal is funded in part by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and Brown's Finance Board.[ 2]
Notable contributors
John Kerry , US Senator and Secretary of State[ 3]
Dilma Rousseff , President of Brazil
Zbigniew Brzezinski , National Security Advisor of the United States
Jimmy Carter , President of the United States
Boutros Boutros-Ghali , Secretary-General of the UN
Julia Gillard , Prime Minister of Australia
Mikhail Gorbachev , President of the Soviet Union
Sergei Khrushchev , Second son Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Ali Akbar Velayati , Iranian politician
Joseph Stiglitz , Nobel Prize-winning economist
Gro Harlem Brundtland , Prime Minister of Norway
Eduard Shevardnadze , Georgian President and Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mangosuthu Buthelezi , South African politician
Pierre Buyoya , President of Burundi
Fernando Henrique Cardoso , President of Brazil
Noam Chomsky , American linguist and political activist
John Danforth , US Senator and Ambassador to the UN
Richard Florida , Professor at the University of Toronto
Jeffrey Sachs , University Professor at Columbia University
Richard Epstein , Professor at the University of Chicago
Lawrence Freedman , Advisor to Tony Blair
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , President of France
Alexander Haig , US Secretary of State
Václav Havel , President of the Czech Republic
Richard Holbrooke , US Ambassador to the United Nations
John McCain , US Senator
Lawrence Eagleburger , US Secretary of State
Ricardo Lagos , President of Chile
Madeleine Albright , US Secretary of State
Rashid Khalidi , Professor at Columbia University
Romano Prodi , President of the European Commission
Samantha Power , US Ambassador to the United Nations
Michael McFaul , Professor at Stanford University
Ira Magaziner , Chairman of the Clinton Foundation
Robert McNamara , US Secretary of Defense
Joseph Nye , Professor at Harvard University
Sadako Ogata , UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Christopher Patten , Last Governor of Hong Kong
Shimon Peres , President and Prime Minister of Israel
Javier Solana , Secretary General of NATO
Larry Diamond , Professor at Stanford University
Paul Wolfowitz , President of the World Bank
Fareed Zakaria , journalist and host of Fareed Zakaria G.P.S.
Robert Jervis , Professor at Columbia University
Gennady Zyuganov , Russian politician
R. Nicholas Burns , Professor at Harvard University
Vicente Fox , President of Mexico
Jerzy Buzek , President of European Parliament
Nathan Law , Hong Kong Activist and Legislator
Egils Levits , President of Latvia
Editors-in-Chief
The Journal is led by two coeditors-in-chief, who typically serve one year terms.
Daniel Cruise 1994
Alexander Scribner 1994
Michael Soussan 1995
Pier Smulders 1995
Spyros Demetriou 1996, Project Director of the United Nations Development Programme
J. Peter Scoblic 1997, Executive Editor of The New Republic
Andrew Lowenstein
Michael J. Hsu 1997
Tarek E. Masoud 1997
Douglas McGray 1997
Jeffrey W. Dillon 1999
Shalinee Sharma 1999
Elizabeth Foz 2000
Madeleine Kokx 2000
Charlene Lat 2001
James Fichter 2001
Patrick O'Brien 2002
Jennifer Schwartzman 2002
Jaideep Singh 2003
Daniel Widome 2003
Andrew Horesh 2004
Keith Stanski 2004
Jesse Finkelstein 2005
Priya Bindra 2005
Barron YoungSmith 2006
Seema Vora 2006
Jillian Moo-Young 2006
Kenta Tsuda 2007
Katherine Reisner 2007
Craig Kennedy 2008
Shiyin Wang 2008
Solomon Eppel 2010
Tushar Khadloya 2010
Anagha Prasad 2010
Harvey Stephenson 2011
Anthony Badami 2011
Melanie Garunay 2011
Sam Magaram 2012
Mustafa Safdar 2012
Kathy Nguyen 2013
Cameron Parsons 2013
Reva Dhingra 2014
Maxwell Ernst 2014
Carol Kim 2015
Sabin Ray 2015
Katherine Pollock 2016
Lily Halpern 2016
Tomas Navia 2016
Pranav Sharma 2017
Asya Igmen 2017
Paul Butler 2018
Luiza Osorio G. da Silva 2018
Oliver Hermann 2019
Jacquelyn S. Ingrassia 2019
Isabel Alexiades 2020
Jonah Shrock 2020
Rakhi Kundra 2021
Olivia Siemens 2021
Caroline Allen 2022
Kamran King 2022
Isabella Yepes 2023
Erik Brown 2023
Luka Willett 2024
Marcie Madoff 2024
Michelle Alas Molina 2025
Ariana Palomo 2025
In popular culture
Actor Donald Sutherland appeared holding a copy of the Brown Journal of World Affairs on an episode of the ABC television drama Commander in Chief .
References
External links
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