Atlanta’s diplomatic wheel kept spinning in 2019, with new arrivals in two key postings, a handover of the deanship and the addition of yet another country to the now 70-plus that have representation here. Shane Stephens, consul general of Ireland, earlier this year became the longest-serving member of the corps, succeeding Peru’s Miguel Aleman in the deanship, which […]
GCIV Continues Role as Magnet for Foreign Visitors in 2019
The Georgia Council for International Visitors continued playing its role as a magnet drawing emerging foreign leaders to the state in 2019, welcoming guests from 131 countries and territories throughout the year. Founded in 1962, GCIV administers the International Visitor Leadership Program of the U.S. State Department within Georgia. About half of GCIV’s programs are […]
Holocaust Remembrance Event to Focus on Denmark’s Ordinary Heroes
Jewish organization Am Yisrael Chai‘s annual Holocaust remembrance event later this month in Atlanta will focus on the remarkable actions of Danes to resist the Nazi regime’s attempts to send Denmark’s Jews to concentration camps. The “Rescue and Refuge” event Jan. 26 will feature as its keynote speaker Rabbi Bent Melchior, whose father, Chief Rabbi […]
Our 19 Most-Read Stories of 2019
Looking at our list of top stories for 2019, it’s hard not to be a little disappointed as an editor. After all, we pride ourselves in being a publication that primarily uses business as the lens through which we illuminate the ways Atlanta is connected to the world — or more specifically, to the global […]
Books 2019: Rethinking the European Origins of American Tolerance
Book: The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America Author: Russell Shorto Review by: Trevor Williams, Managing Editor, Global Atlanta Anyone who has been through fifth-grade civics would know that European thinkers incubated the American sense of reason and the religious tolerance […]
Books 2019: How and Why ‘My Fellow Americans’ Resounds Across the Pacific
Book: How to Hide an Empire: A History of The Greater United States Author: Daniel Immerwahr Reviewed by: Christopher N. Smith, Attorney at Law and Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Denmark in Georgia A global quest for guano. The need for coal fueling stations for a growing navy. An ascendant global power wishing to […]
Books 2019: Are the United States and China Destined for War?
Book: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? Author: Graham Allison Review by: Bruce Allen, honorary consul of the Principality of Liechtenstein in Georgia As described by the eponymous Greek historian about the war between Athens and Sparta two and a half millennia ago, Thucydides’s trap is a situation where a rising […]
Books 2019: Shedding New Light on an Old CIA and Mafia Plot to Kill Castro
Book: Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro Author: Thomas Maier Reviewed by Paul Varian, retired CNN executive producer Gangsters Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli, who cut their teeth as street thugs for Al Capone, rose to underworld prominence using brutality, cunning and charm. In 1960, the longtime Mafia pals […]
Books 2019: The Dangers of Not Talking to Strangers
Book: Talking to Strangers:What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know Author: Malcolm Gladwell Review by: Soumaya Khalifa, president, Khalifa Consulting and founder of the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta Like many, I grew up with my parents telling me not to talk to strangers. Now in my consulting, I work with leaders and […]
Books 2019: Colonialism or Philanthropy? Blurred Lines in King Leopold’s Congo
Book: King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Author: Adam Hochschild Review by: Kirk Bowman, Jon R. Wilcox Professor of Soccer and Global Politics, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech; Founder and Director, Rise Up & Care After procrastinating for two decades, I finally read King Leopold’s Ghost […]
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