Brown Journal of World Affairs

Brown Journal of World Affairs

Editors	Pranav Sharma, Asya Igmen
Categories	International Relations
Publisher	Brown University
First issue	1993
Country	United States
Website	https://www.brown.edu/bjwa
ISSN	1080-0786

The Brown Journal of World Affairs is an American magazine of foreign policy and international relations, published biannually at Brown University. It was founded in 1993 as the Brown Journal of Foreign Affairs by Daniel Cruise, Alex Scribner, and Michael Soussan. The magazine features essays written by world leaders, policy makers, 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 magazine is funded in part by Watson Institute for International Studies and Brown's Undergraduate Finance Board. Comparable publications include The Washington Quarterly, World Policy Journal, Foreign Affairs, and The National Interest.

Notable contributors

Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State Jahangir Amuzegar, Iranian Minister of Finance John R. Bolton, US Ambassador to the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the UN Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician Pierre Buyoya, President of Burundi Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil Jimmy Carter, President of the United States Ahmed Chalabi, Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq Noam Chomsky, American linguist and political activist Joseph Cirincione, Nuclear and international security expert Chester Crocker, Assistant US Secretary of State Larry Diamond, Professor at Stanford University Richard Epstein, Professor at the University of Chicago Lawrence Freedman, Advisor to Tony Blair Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union Alexander Haig, US Secretary of State Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic Richard Holbrooke, US Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Jervis, Professor at Columbia University

John Kerry, US Secretary of State and former Senator Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikita Khrushchev Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile Ira Magaziner, Chairman of the Clinton Foundation John McCain, US Senator Robert McNamara, US Secretary of Defense Joseph Nye, Professor at Harvard University Sadako Ogata, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Christopher Patten, Chancellor of the University of Oxford Shimon Peres, President and Prime Minister of Israel Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense Samantha Power, member of the National Security Council Jeffrey Sachs, economist and advisor to Ban Ki-moon John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia Javier Solana, Secretary General of NATO Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist Ali Akbar Velayati, Iranian politician Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank Fareed Zakaria, journalist and host of Fareed Zakaria G.P.S. Gennady Zyuganov, Russian politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch feminist activist R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State

Editors

• 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

Trivia

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.

External links

• Brown Journal of World Affairs website
• "Macho Policy Geeks," a Brown Alumni Magazine profile of The Brown Journal of World Affairs