Security Dilemma

How can the JQA Society change your life and accelerate your career? How can you take your leadership skills to the next level? Several current and former chapter leaders talk about the impact their involvement with the John Quincy Adams Society has had for them. You'll hear from Julia and Ryan, two JQA alumni who now work in foreign policy in Washington, and from Samantha and Alyssa, who lead an...

The War in Afghanistan has come to an end. But what about the legal framework that made it (and the Global War on Terror) happen? Hear from a policy advocate working to lobby Congress for a more peaceful foreign policy. Julia Gledhill, a former JQA Society campus leader, now works at the Friends Committee for National Legislation, where she covers issues like war powers, defense spending, and huma...

Thucydides famously argued that the rise of Athens, and the fear this provoked in Sparta, made the Peloponnesian War inevitable. Some have taken this to be a general principle: rising powers and the relatively declining states they advance upon are doomed to confrontation, crisis, and war. Will this be the case with the United States and China? In this digital event with the John Quincy Adams Soci...