{"id":1454,"date":"2012-04-24T09:38:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T13:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/diplomacy\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2012-04-24T11:07:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:07:47","slug":"a-conversation-with-yaron-brook-and-elan-journo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/2012\/04\/a-conversation-with-yaron-brook-and-elan-journo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Yaron Brook and Elan Journo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Yaron Brook by Gage Skidmore, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gageskidmore\/5483743931\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5259\/5483743931_ac09146877.jpg\" alt=\"Yaron Brook\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/subscription\/\">Winter\/Spring 2012 edition<\/a> of the <em>Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>How should the U.S. respond to the events that have gripped the Middle East\u00a0over the past year? This question has been debated countless times by the media,\u00a0academics, and politicians alike. Will the toppling of authoritarian regimes unleash a\u00a0wave of democracy and individual freedoms across the region? Or will the power\u00a0vacuums created allow darker forces to come to the fore? For a unique answer to\u00a0these questions, the Whitehead Journal looked to Dr. Yaron Brook and Elan Journo,\u00a0both of the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) in Irvine, California. Founded to promote the\u00a0philosophy of twentieth-century novelist Ayn Rand\u2014Objectivism\u2014ARI advocates\u00a0for the principles of reason, rational self-interest, individual rights, and laissez-faire\u00a0capitalism. In the 2009 book <em>Winning the Unwinnable War<\/em>, both of these scholars argue\u00a0for a revised U.S. foreign policy\u2014one based on the principles that Ayn Rand stood\u00a0for. To examine just what a foreign policy based on Objectivism would mean for the\u00a0U.S., the Whitehead Journal\u2019s Christopher Bartolotta and Jordan McGillis spoke with\u00a0Dr. Yaron Brook and Elan Journo on the Arab Spring, American interests, Iran,\u00a0China, and much more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/files\/2012\/04\/Brook-and-Journo.pdf\">Click here to continue reading (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Photo Courtesy of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gageskidmore\/\">Gage Skidmore<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Winter\/Spring 2012 edition of the Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations: How should the U.S. respond to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}