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Category: Acheson Prize

Acheson Prize/Asia/Comments/Essays

Can the Personal be Political?: A Critique of Gandhi’s Nonviolence in the Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement

Posted on May 2020 by Isabella Epstein Yale'21

Part I. Introduction  In 1841, Hong Kong became a British colony, having been ceded by China after the First Opium War. The British reaffirmed their sovere...

Acheson Prize/Comments/Essays/Europe

Brother-and-Sister Brotherhood: Sexual Harassment and Gender-Mixed Barracks in the Norwegian Armed Forces

Posted on May 2020 by Antonia Ayres-Brown Yale'21

The sun never rose the first day Kari began her service in the Norwegian Armed Forces.[1] Daylight didn’t appear at Setermoen Camp, a northern army base situate...

Acheson Prize/Essays

Cosmopolitan Culpability: The Dynamics of Mitigated Punishment and Migration

Posted on May 2020 by Keerthana Annamaneni Yale'20

A version of this article originally appeared in Inquiries Journal.Annamaneni, Keerthana. “Towards a Theory of Leniency for Immigrants.” Inquiries J...

Acheson Prize/Essays/Europe

Revisionist Memory: How the far-right Alternative for Germany is seeking to reshape the nation’s collective memory to promote a Eurosceptic, German-centric foreign policy agenda

Posted on May 2020 by Jesse Nadel

Throughout the history of modern Germany, an unwavering government commitment to the remembrance of the National Socialists’ atrocities has permeated an ingrain...

Acheson Prize/Asia/Essays

Military Modernizers: US Military Aid and the Indonesian Civic Action Program, 1958-1965

Posted on May 2020 by Gregory Jany, Yale '21

On March 12, 1958, an unidentified plane parachuted 20 cases of arms into the middle of a field in Pekanbaru, a city that became a major conflict zone in the In...

Acheson Prize/Essays

The Importance of Sustainability in China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Posted on September 2019 by admin

Written by: Moises Escobar, Berkeley College ’20 The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—a massive infrastructure integration project undertaken by the Chinese...

Acheson Prize/Essays

Importing Arms, Exporting the Revolution: Mehdi Hashemi and His Fatal Leak to Ash-Shiraa

Posted on April 2019 by admin

Written by Rosa Shapiro-Thompson The story that broke in the small Lebanese weekly, Ash-Shiraa, on November 3, 1986, led to the exposure of a tangled story of s...

Acheson Prize/Essays

Historical Mirrorism: Reckoning with Migration and Integration in Italy

Posted on April 2019 by admin

Written by Trinh Truong “Friendship is indispensable to man for the proper function of his memory. Remembering our past, carrying it with us always, may be the ...

Acheson Prize/Essays

“A Transcript from Nature”: De-Essentializing Narratives of Imperialism in William Daniell’s The European Factories, Canton

Posted on April 2019 by admin

Written by Oriana Tang Beginning in 1514 with the arrival of the first Portuguese traders, the port of Canton in southeastern China became what postcolonial sch...

Acheson Prize/Essays

Developing Socially Conscious Curricula for Somali Schools: Teaching Human Rights Where Religious, Clan Customary, and International Law Collides

Posted on April 2019 by admin

Written by Noora Reffat INTRODUCTION Since 1983, the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation (DHAF) has served Somalia by promoting peace, health, and education in Hope Villag...

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