Democratic Identity in Postwar America: The Politicization of Asian Americans in the Early Cold War
Written By: Sarah Lu, Columbia University A series of unresolved fragments, we come together as a contingent whole. We gain social recognition as a racial colle...
How to Scare a Giant: Resolve Signaling in South China Sea Maritime Disputes
Written by: James Boehme, Tufts University Summary Introduction Vast quantities of International Relations scholarship published over the past several decades h...
The Organization of American States and Democratic Erosion: The Cases of Venezuela and Nicaragua
Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Leonardo Di Bonaventura, INTRODUCTION Latin America has experienced an unprecedented rise in democratic regimes since the 1990s. I...
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh – Genocide, Resistance, and Revelations for Today
Written by: Yicheng Zhang, Tufts University ’21 The novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was written by the Austrian-Jewish writer Franz Werfel in ...
Securitized in Solidarity: How Germany Exploited the Arab Spring To Normalize Schengen Border Externalization
Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Allison Meakem, Brown University Introduction During the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel recei...
El Salvador’s Femicide Crisis
Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Sophie Huttner, Yale ’22 By the time a Salvadoran woman turns thirty, she will more likely than not have experienced gender-...
Authoritarian Environmentalism, Democracy, and Political Legitimacy
By: Mayson Glenne Obrien, University of Texas Our planet is warming at an alarming rate, due largely to human actions, such as burning fossil fuels and repurpos...
Collective Memory, Reconciliation, and Disillusionment: Monuments in Post-Civil War Settings
Winter Issue Written by Diana Knott, American University Introduction Following civil wars, states struggle to reckon with the violence and loss suffered and in...
Pride as Regret: The Psychological Well-being of Young Adults Who Are Children of Martyrs
Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Majlinda Zhuniq, University of Pristina Despite the fact that war in Kosovo has ended in 1999, the consequences of the loss of lov...
Narrow Artificial Intelligence Weapons Systems and their Impact on the Balance of Power
By:Alexandra Tsitsiringos, Tufts University Narrow Artificial Intelligence Weapons Systems and their Impact on the Balance of Power Research Question: How might...