A Life of Public Service: Ambassador John Koenig on his Experience as an American Diplomat in Europe and Beyond
John Koenig served as the U.S. ambassador to Cyprus from 2012 to 2015. As a career foreign service officer, he has held assignments in Belgium, Greece, Indonesi...
Toward a “Grander Strategy of Containing Putin’s Russia”: Ambassador Michael McFaul on Engagement and Containment in a New Era of Great Power Competition
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul leaves the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Russia on May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File) Michael McFaul served a...
Trust on the Streets: How Does It Work and Why Does It Matter?
Acheson Finalist Current hegemonic economic and socio-cultural standards prioritize the freedoms and needs of individual entities—whether be a country, business...
Are Protests Effective? Examining the Impact of Protests Against Gender-Based Violence on Legislation in Nigeria
This piece was published in the Acheson Issue, Volume 11 1. INTRODUCTION On May 28, 2020, Vera Uwalia Omosuwa, a 22-year-old college student in Edo State, Niger...
An “Eternal Recurrence”: Patterns of German Ideological Hegemony in Modern Greek History
This piece was published in the Acheson Issue, Volume 11 Abstract Throughout its existence, the Hellenic Republic has struggled to reconcile its “modern Greek” ...
Pussy Riot is No ‘Riot Grrl’: How Western Media Misinterpreted Russian Protest Culture, 2012-2015
This piece was published in the Acheson Issue, Volume 11 Abstract Between 2012 and 2015, Pussy Riot and Petr Pavlensky gained international fame as artist-activ...
The Carter Administration, Argentina, and Human Rights: 1977-1981
This piece was published in the Acheson Issue, Volume 11 Introduction When tanks and transports loaded with heavily armed soldiers rolled into Buenos Aires earl...
Are Protests Effective?: Examining the Impact of Protests Against Gender-Based Violence on Legislation in Nigeria
1. INTRODUCTION On May 28, 2020, Vera Uwalia Omosuwa, a 22-year-old college student in Edo State, Nigeria was raped and sexually assaulted while studying in a c...
The Zapatista Army: A Feminist Revolution Existing within the Patriarchy
Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico’s President from 1988 to 1994, was seated comfortably with close family and friends at a resort in Huatulco, Oaxaca the evenin...
Paratexts and Plurality: Mediation in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
TO THE DIVERSE AND DYNAMIC PEOPLE OF LAGOS, NIGERIA—ANIMALS, PLANT, AND SPIRIT These are the opening words of Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon (2014) and the dedication ...