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Comments/Europe

The European Union’s Rubicon or a New Normal? Brexit’s impact on the dynamics of European integration, and national stay or leave sentiments

Posted on April 2022 by Bowen Damask

As Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor of European Politics at ETH Zurich, contended in 2018, in relation to the European Union (EU) “crises are open decision-makin...

Africa/Africa

An Immediate “Humanitarian Truce” Temporarily Ends Hostilities in Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict

Posted on April 2022 by Jeremy Williams

***CONTENT WARNING: This Article Discusses Sexual Assault and Rape*** In a surprise announcement this past Thursday, the Ethiopian government led by Prime Minis...

Africa/Africa

No Such Thing as Free Internet

Posted on April 2022 by Adia Keene

In October of 2021, Google announced that it would invest $1 billion into African internet infrastructure over five years[1]. On March 18th of this year, the fi...

Hong Kong Skyline
Asia/Essays/Spring Issue

The National Security Law, “One Country Two Systems,” and Hong Kong’s National Security Apparatus: The Coup De Grace to Hong Kong’s Ideological Independence and Democratic Autonomy

Posted on April 2022 by Pieter van Wingerden

Abstract This paper examines the future of the “One Country Two Systems”’ principle amid China’s recent encroachments on Hong Kong’s democratic autonomy a...

map of Iran and Israel
Essays/Middle East/Spring Issue

Why did the Islamic Republic continue clandestine cooperation with Israel?

Posted on April 2022 by Rana Nejad

Abstract It is often believed that Iran’s Islamic Republic and the State of Israel became estranged after Ayatollah Khomeini arose to power during the Islamic R...

Asia/Comments

Menustration Myths: Period Poverty and Education in South Asia

Posted on April 2022 by Anjali Mangla

Imagine a girl being told she cannot enter places of religious worship, cannot enter the kitchen, must be “purified,” and cannot touch boys. This situation is a...

Comments/Middle East

Allies First, Deals Second: An Analysis of the Iran Deal

Posted on April 2022 by Rohan Krishnan

From the onset of the Biden presidency, the administration has promised the American people a renewed agreement, or “Iran Deal,” to cull nuclear proliferation b...

Africa/Comments

Power or Water: Ethiopia’s Hydroelectric Dam & Rising Tensions along the Nile River

Posted on April 2022 by Kaleb Assefa

Estimated to cost almost 5 billion dollars at completion and holding 74 billion cubic meters of water at capacity, Ethiopia’s new hydroelectric dam will produce...

Africa

Bracing Against the Tide: ECOWAS and Recent Military Coups in West Africa

Posted on March 2022 by Thomas Lowe

A historical center of global trade, culture, and learning, West Africa is now the world epicenter of military coup d’etats. Over the last seven decades, the re...

Americas/Asia/Comments/Europe

Sanctions on Russia: Implications for the Financial World Order

Posted on March 2022 by Jasmine Keung

Following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Western sanctions have failed to act as an effective deterrent against Russian aggression. Today, as Vladimir P...

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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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