China
On Environmental Activism in Argentina: A Conversation with Andrés Nápoli
"I believe the future holds much more activity because, lamentably, every day there are more pressures out there against the environment."
Kendrick Foster
Kendrick is an Executive Editor at the HIR, where he mainly works with the Interviews and Perspectives section. He mainly writes on Latin American diplomatic and environmental issues.
Asia
Evolving Technology, Confidence-Building Measures, and Autonomous Weapons: Interview with Paul Scharre
"I think the salient question is where is there room for agreement between the United States, Russia, and China on constraints, rules of the road, norms for behavior for how they incorporate AI and autonomy into military systems, and is there any room for agreement?"
Energy & Environment
Protecting Latin America's Environmental Defenders: The Fight for the Escazú Agreement
"Latin America’s wealth of natural resources creates conflict between environmental defenders and businesses that wish to exploit these resources. Latin America’s 'plague of state weakness' then allows businesses to kill environmental defenders and get away with it."
Europe
Estonian Foreign Policy in the Pandemic: Interview with Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets
"Regional cooperation that advances the Nordic-Baltic area as a more competitive, sustainable, and innovative region that is attractive to businesses and people alike is our common interest."
Cybersecurity
Activism on the Electronic Frontier: A Conversation with Danny O'Brien
"There are lots of different people who have lots of very different experiences of the Internet and need the tools to be able to handle and enhance that experience, and we are not seeing that right now."
Cybersecurity
Security Versus Security: A Conversation with Bruce Schneier
"These systems are critical to our infrastructure, and keeping them secure is more important than leaving them vulnerable. It's not security versus privacy. It's security versus security. A strong defense will necessarily benefit everyone, even though it also limits offense."
China
Modern Island Hopping: The Geopolitical Battle for the Pacific
"Of course, the United States should also avoid gaffes like the Chinese ambassador to Kiribati made. But avoiding gaffes is not nearly enough to win the Pacific over. It should invest much, much more in this neglected region before it is too late."
Employment & Immigration
An Economist's View of the Informal Economy: Interview with Friedrich Schneider
Friedrich Schneider is a Professor of Economics at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany.
Employment & Immigration
Surveying the World of Informal Work: Interview with Sally Roever
"Just to give a sense of what it looks like around the world, 61 percent of all employment is informal. That adds up to about 2 billion informal workers, meaning they don't have social protection."
The Americas
How Mexico's "Caso Giovanni" Sparked a Public Security Reckoning
"Unfortunately, el caso Giovanni, as Mexicans have taken to calling the case, does not exist within a vacuum. It is the latest in a string of police brutality incidents in Mexico."
The Americas
Negotiating Peace in Colombia: Interview with Bernard Aronson
Bernard Aronson served as U.S. Special Representative to the Colombian Peace Process from 2016 to 2019. He previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, where he also helped negotiate the peace agreement that ended El Salvador’s Civil War. In the case of the Colombian
Agriculture
Green Gold: Making Money (and Fighting Deforestation) with Yerba Mate
Entrepreneurs have started to tap into the growing American market for alternative teas. Since mate production provides an economic incentive to reforest the South American Atlantic rainforest, these companies demonstrate how ecological restoration and profit can go hand in hand.