Interviews 
Cold War, Containment, and Grand Strategy
An Interview with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian John Lewis Gaddis* YJIA: Professor Gaddis, you are well-known for both your work on the Cold War and the policy of containment. Did containment help the United States win the Cold War? Gaddis: I think containment helped all of us win the Cold War, not just the U.S.; it [...]
Full Story»Activist, Advisor, Academic
An Interview with Emma Sky* YJIA: You are well known for your service in Iraq as a British diplomat and as an advisor to the U.S. military. Prior to traveling to Iraq in 2003, you spent ten years or so in hotspots such as Jerusalem and you also served as a governance advisor for the [...]
The “Age of Memory:” International Relations Perspectives from a Contemporary Historian
An Interview with Professor Henry Rousso* YJIA: You were born in Cairo, Egypt and have had a long and varied academic career, with positions and postings in Europe and the United States. Overall, how would you describe the nature of your research, and what motivated you to select this area? Rousso: I began to work [...]
International Relations in a “Dangerous, Multinational World”
A Brief Conversation with Brigadier General (ret.) Thomas Kolditz* YJIA: Professor Kolditz, our Journal seeks to bridge the gap between international relations (IR) scholars and practitioners and to help inform policy. As both a career Army officer and as a professor at two top U.S. universities, what do you think are some ways in which [...]
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- The Economics of “Mass Massage Mobilization”
- Protesting the Assad regime: An Interview with Syrian writer, journalist, activist Samar Yazbek
- Bridging the Gap between Policy-Making and Academia: An Interview with South Asia expert Alexander Evans
- Disrupting Terrorist Financing Networks: An Interview with US Treasury Department Under Secretary David Cohen
- US Foreign Policy, State-Building, and Humanitarianism in Africa
- Confronting Evolving Threats to US Homeland Security
