India 2012: Economic Performance & Challenges
The creation of a functional financial system is essential to the growth of developing countries. In the decades following its independence, the Indian governme...
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Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The question “who is to be blamed” wafts uneasily through the entire tapestry of Changez’s tale. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid, leaves the reade...
Health and the Huaorani
Nestled at the heart of the thick and humid Amazon jungle in Ecuador, the Huaorani tribe lives a quiet and conflicted existence, walking a perilous tightrope be...
Ghosts of the Recent Past
The recent international disagreements over Iran’s nuclear advances and related economic sanctions signal an all-time low in Iran’s relationship with the West. ...
Climate Change, Basic Rights, and International Obligations
Introduction: The Impact of Climate Change on Basic Human Rights Climate change poses an immense and growing threat to human rights around the world, but nation...
Truth Commission in Brazil: Individualizing Amnesty, Revealing the Truth
Introduction In 2004, the Brazilian newspaper Correio Brasiliense published a photograph of a man hanging in the Information and Operations Detachments and Comm...
Review: The Quest, But Are We Headed for Failure?
Daniel Yergin’s The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World[1] is his eagerly anticipated follow-up to The Prize, his 1992 Pulitzer-Prize ...
Prospects for Future Peace in Afghanistan: India as a US Partner
As America prepares to leave Afghanistan, it should help India find a greater and more measured role in the country. The US-India relationship...
Letter from the Editor (Vol. 2, Issue 1)
Welcome to the Winter 2011 issue of the Yale Review of International Studies. Started by a group of undergraduates in the fall of 2010, we are excited for our s...
2011: The Year the World Said No
In 2011 global protest movements, socially organized and electronically connected, ushered in massive political and economic changes. The “Arab Spring” raged in...