The Acheson Prize Issue, named after 51st US Secretary of State and Yale alumnus Dean Acheson, highlights outstanding global affairs scholarship exclusively written by Yale undergraduate students.
Introduction In 1965, India and Pakistan fought a four-day war over a patch of salty, barren territorypopulated by greater numbers of wild asses than men. In th...
Introduction “Historians have traditionally attacked the British for either failing the Jews, failing the Arabs, or failing the Empire.”1 British policy at the ...
Since the overthrow of former President Siad Barre (1991), Somalia has had neither a state nor a bureaucracy.1 After three decades marked by failed peace confer...
Introduction: Peninsula to Peninsula In April 1905, hundreds of Koreans were gathered in Jemulpo Port under Korea’s hot spring sun.[1] The SS Ilford was about t...
Acheson Finalist Current hegemonic economic and socio-cultural standards prioritize the freedoms and needs of individual entities—whether be a country, business...
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...
This piece was published in the Acheson Issue, Volume 11 Abstract Throughout its existence, the Hellenic Republic has struggled to reconcile its “modern Greek” ...
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...
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...
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...
