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Author: Blake Bridge and Vishwa Padigepati

Comments/Europe/Interviews

A Life of Public Service: Ambassador John Koenig on his Experience as an American Diplomat in Europe and Beyond

Posted on June 2021 by Blake Bridge and Vishwa Padigepati

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...

Essays

Tweeting to Win: Al-Shabaab’s Strategic Use of Microblogging

Posted on November 2012 by editor / 17 Comments

Today, we live in a world of networked global communities, drawn together by the recent technological boom.  This unprecedented degree of interconnectivity has ...

Essays

Public Opinion and Soft Balancing within the Transatlantic Alliance

Posted on November 2012 by editor / 0 Comment

Amidst the Iraq War and the promulgation of a unilateral foreign policy under the Bush administration, global public opinion of the United States plummeted. One...

Comments

Putin and USAID: The Makings of a Grip Too Tight on Power

Posted on November 2012 by editor / 7 Comments

In September 2012, the Russian government, headed by President Vladimir Putin, mandated that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) cease operati...

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Stories from South Tel Aviv: The Plight of African Asylum Seekers in Israel

Posted on November 2012 by editor / 13 Comments

In 1948, the newly established Jewish and democratic State of Israel asserted in its Declaration of Independence that “The State of Israel will be open for Jewi...

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The Northern Distribution Network and Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Posted on November 2012 by editor / 12 Comments

The United States has committed to withdrawing from Afghanistan by 2014.  Given the sheer amount of equipment and number of personnel currently on the ground, t...

Essays

Conversion and Settlement in Pre-Mandate British Foreign Policy

Posted on November 2012 by editor / 6 Comments

I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem, In England’s green & pleasant Land[1] With thes...

Essays

An Arendtian Analysis of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Posted on November 2012 by editor / 9 Comments

On May 10th, 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first president of South Africa to have been elected by citizens of all races. The selection of a black...

Book Reviews

Review: Why Nations Fail

Posted on August 2012 by editor / 11 Comments

To forgo reading Why Nations Fail – a weighty but intensely engaging investigation of the determinants of economic prosperity – is, it seems, to risk being left...

Essays

Italy, Europe and the Euro Crisis: Partnership for Reform or Discord for Disaster

Posted on August 2012 by editor / 10 Comments

Little more than two years ago, European news outlets and politicians spoke about the prospect of economic downturn and financial unrest as if it were only caus...

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YRIS Acheson Prize Issue

The Yale Review of International Studies is currently soliciting submissions for our annual Acheson Prize Issue. The author of the winning essay will receive a monetary prize of $700, second place will receive $300, and third place will receive $200. We are accepting any essay related to international affairs under 40 pages double spaced. A panel of Yale professors will judge the essays, and the competition is exclusively open to Yale undergraduates. Students can submit their essays by email to yris@yira.org. Submissions are due on April 15.

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