Tabla de contenidos para September/October 2017 en Foreign Policy

YUN SUN: The issue of refugees is very controversial in China. The overwhelming majority of the Chinese public seems to believe that China should not accept foreign refugees. Many Chinese nationals would say, “We had a one-child policy for the development of our country, so we’re certainly not making the space for refugees.” And reports about criminal activities and the turbulence that refugees are said to have created in Europe also alarm the Chinese. Apparently, they believe refugees from the Middle East are nothing but trouble. China is also a developing country and so, almost subconsciously, does not believe it has the inherent responsibility. The Chinese official justification for inaction is that the refugee crisis was created by internal political turmoil in countries such as Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. China…

WE MAY HAVE SPENT TOO MUCH ENERGY POLICING THE MARGINAL POWERS OF THE PRESIDENCY RELATIVE TO THE ENERGY WE HAVE SPENT POLICING ITS DISCRETIONARY CORE. “THE EXECUTIVE POWER shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”— Article II, Section 1, U.S. Constitution Debates over executive authority generally take place at the margins of the president’s powers. Our collective understanding of the limits of executive power flows from an iterative process: Presidents test the boundaries of their authority and either successfully expand those boundaries in the process or get batted back by other branches of government. Other branches encroach on presidential authority and either get away with it—and thereby narrow the president’s power—or not. Our understanding of the boundaries of presidential authority flows from Abraham Lincoln suspending…

THE SOMALI-BRITISH WRITER WARSAN SHIRE begins her poem “Home” with the line, “No one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark.” Whatever the inciting forces are that propel people to undertake what is inevitably a dangerous, expensive, and arduous journey from their homeland into the unknown—the kind that rips apart families—they must be grim. And in the increasingly politicized debates within “destination countries” over what to do with those arriving seeking safety, we have failed to examine the root causes that drive people from their homes in the first place. There are in the world, right now, more than 65 million displaced people. That’s more than at any time since World War II, and it’s only going to grow. In the next five or 10 years,…

Applying to Grad School in International Affairs "VISITING CAMPUS BEFORE YOU APPLY CAN MAKE A CONSIDERABLE IMPACT ON YOUR CONSIDERATION FOR ADMISSION AS WELL AS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES." -ROBERT MACDONALD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE ENROLLMENT, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER, JOSEF KORBEL SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Faculty at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies want to see a record of academic and professional success as well as three other key qualities: • A clear explanation of your objectives and how the Josef Korbel School will help you achieve them • Demonstration of how your work experience has informed your ambitions for graduate school and beyond • Goals and interests that will make for a successful fit with the unique learning experience at the Josef Korbel School "That said, we…

FORT WORTH, TEXAS—Jaime Carrillo emerges from his faded pink house wearing blue jeans and a black cowboy hat. After a long day at work laying cement for city streets, he is ready for a second shift—this time as a volunteer for the Fort Worth Police Department. He straps a walkie-talkie to his collar, slaps a “Citizens on Patrol” sticker on the side of his blue Nissan Sentra, and settles in the driver’s seat. “Tigre, Tigre,” Carrillo calls into the radio, addressing his partner. His own code name is “Meneaito,” the title of a popular salsa song. “I like to dance,” he explains in Spanish, shimmying his shoulders. As he weaves his way around the roughly four miles of his regular patrol route through Polytechnic Heights—a low-income, largely immigrant neighborhood of…

NO ISSUE IS AS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED with U.S. President Donald Trump’s ascendancy as immigration, but those who thought his only concern was stopping illegal immigration weren’t paying close attention. Trump’s ugly campaign rhetoric may have focused on illegal immigration—building walls, protecting Americans’ jobs, and stopping a largely imagined crime wave— but, behind the scenes, candidate Trump was working closely with hard-liners who have long lobbied for cutting legal immigration drastically. In a mostly ignored 2015 campaign policy paper titled “Immigration Reform That Will Make America Great Again,” Trump promised, “Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers.” He also proposed making it more difficult for employers…

HOW TO STRENGTHEN YOUR GRAD SCHOOL APPLICATIONS 5 COMMON MISTAKES TO AVOID TIPS FROM ADMISSIONS EXPERTS AT LEADING SCHOOLS "HIGHLIGHT YOUR RESILIENCE. YOUR GRIT, YOUR FLEXIBILITY AND ADAPTABILITY. THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT WAYS TO BE OF SERVICE IN THE PUBLIC, PRIVATE,AND NONPROFITSECTORS."-Carmen Iezzi Mezzera, Executive Director, APSIA A strong grad school application begins with the basics: Be clear about your goals and your reasons for applying. Show openness as well as direction. "The world is changing, and the job market is changing," says Carmen Iezzi Mezzera, executive director of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA). In explaining your career goals to schools, Mezzera says to think both short term and long term. "Highlight your resilience, your grit, your flexibility and adaptability," she suggests. "There are many different…

Applying to Grad School in International Affairs "SIS IS COMMITTED TO CREATING A DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PROFESSIONALS WHO ARE READY TO LEAD THROUGH SERVICE. WE WANT OUR STUDENTS TO BEHAVE WITH AN UNFAILING SPIRIT OF INQUIRY AND MAKE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE LARGER COMMUNITIES AROUND THEM." -JIAJIANG, DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL SERVICE (SIS) "Successful candidates to SIS make a thoughtful and concerted effort to understand who we are and what we do as a school," says Jia Jiang, director of graduate enrollment management at the American University School of International Service (SIS). "They understand that SIS's key vision and mission is to be of service to the international community, and that we understand service to be a mindset and not just…

Noranda is aggressively looking for new markets, as it has excess capacity and wants to ramp up its production. Jamaica’s bauxite industry is back in business, with new player Noranda Bauxite/New Day Aluminum (Jamaica) aggressively developing new customers and markets, as it sets a new path for a 50-plus-year-old bauxite company and Jamaica’s only bauxite exporter. The bauxite and alumina industry was a fraction of its former self, mainly due to reduced global demand and pricing since 2009. Closure loomed for Noranda Bauxite, a mining operation in St. Ann’s Parish capable of producing up to 5.2 million metric tons of bauxite ore per year. At similar risk was the 1.2 million metric tons per annum Noranda Alumina refinery in Gramercy, Louisiana, USA, consumer of half of the mine’s production capacity.…

MY FAVORITE BEIRUT CAFE is on a street corner opposite a large park, one of the few green spaces in the concrete jungle that is the city I still call home. The trees in the park, known as the Jesuit Garden because it was once a summer retreat for Jesuit priests living closer to the coast, shield the remains of a Byzantine church. The waitress, Lea, a student of health and nutrition at a Beirut university, brings me an espresso as soon as I walk through the door. She grew up in Zahleh, a predominantly Christian town in the eastern Bekaa Valley. Jad, the cafe’s expert juicer, is a Syrian who has lived in Lebanon most of his life but is at home neither here nor there. He greets me…

Applying to Grad School in International Affairs "NOTHING IS BETTER THAN VISITING CAMPUS, CHATTING WITH FACULTY AND STUDENTS, VISITING THE CAREER CENTER, AND SITTING IN ON A CLASS." -ANTHONY AREND, SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR FACULTY AND GRADUATE AFFAIRS, WALSH SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY "We want students who are passionate about studying international relations," says Anthony Arend, senior associate dean for faculty and graduate affairs at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS). "We also value practical experience in a related field, broadly defined, such as military experience, journalism, Peace Corps service, or a private sector job with an international relations connection." Each master's degree program at SFS manages its own admissions and financial aid processes. Prospective students apply directly to one of the following programs: the Master…

Applying to Grad School in International Affairs "BY CONNECTING THE THEORETICAL STUDY OF ECONOMICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND REGIONAL STUDIES TO THE PRACTICAL WORK OF POLICYMAKERS, STUDENTS AT JOHNS HOPKINS SAIS BUILD THE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS IN TO DAY'S COMPLEX GLOBAL ECONOMY." -SIDNEY T.JACKSON, ASSISTANT DEAN OF GLOBAL ENROLLMENT AND RECRUITMENT, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (SAIS) "We look for candidates who are creative, passionate, and driven, and who demonstrate that they are poised for success," says Sidney T. Jackson, assistant dean of global enrollment and recruitment at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). "We seek talented and motivated candidates who wish to further their expertise and build a globally minded career." Most successful applicants to Johns Hopkins SAIS have…

Jamaica is the best holiday destination in the Caribbean and the 12th best in the world, according to TripAdvisor. Tourism has long been important to Jamaica’s economy, but it is currently experiencing rapid expansion and 2016 saw more than 3.84 million visitors to the country, bringing in $2.55 billion. In July, Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism, revealed that the sector’s earnings for the first six months of 2017 were estimated to be $1.84 billion, over 8% up on the same period in 2016. Visitor numbers also rose – up 3.9% to 2.17 million. That growth has been accompanied by an unprecedented increase in investments, says Bartlett, “in the last three years, we have received roughly $1 billion and we are expecting 15-20,000 new rooms to become available over the next…