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 ...
Adios to Justice: Japanese Peruvians, National Formations, and the Politics of Legal Redress
“I had felt that America was an ideal country that should be taken as a model for the whole world. Why, then, had that country moved to take such unacceptable m...
Translating Awareness into Action: Human Rights Advocate Daniel Sullivan on the Fight to End Genocide in Myanmar
Rohingya refugees walk to board a naval vessel to be relocated to to the island of Bhasan Char, in Chattogram, Bangladesh, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Az...
Former French President on Trial: Corruption and Alleged Ties to Gaddafi
Jerome Lavrilleux, center, a former cabinet director for the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, arrives at the courtroom Thursday, May 20, 2021 in Paris. Former ...