# 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.
The Journal is funded in part by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and Brown's Finance Board.

## Notable contributors

| John Kerry, US Senator and Secretary of State 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.