The Dangers of Private Policing: Lessons from South Africa
The recent physical assault of French music producer Michel Zecler makes one thing clear: police brutality is a transnational issue. This year, incidents of pol...
Category: Americas
Critiquing the Canon: Pancho Fierro and Peruvian costumbrismo
Art is not neutral; nor is its history. As it currently stands, the conventional canon of the history of art is rich with Western artists representing other cul...
Below Us: A Very Brief History of Modern U.S.-Latin America Relations and Trump’s Legacy
As we approach the end of President Donald J. Trump’s first term as occupant of the White House, it is valuable to reflect on his relationship with countries to...
Fault Lines in the Legal Basis for America’s ‘Snapback’
On 14 August 2020, the United States of America introduced a draft resolution in the United Nations Security Council (‘UNSC’ or ‘the Council’), to extend the in...
21st-Century Powder Keg: How Bolivia’s Military Coup Puts South American Democracies At Risk
The United States has an unfortunate history of inserting itself into any region that contains a coveted resource. From our expansion into Mexican-owned lands i...
Community Solar Development in Bolivia: A Path Towards Climate Resilience, Decolonization, and Political Empowerment
Analyzing the interactions between capitalism, colonialism, and the field of international development in Latin America, this paper explores small-scale, commun...
The Fall of the Alien Tort Statute: Why the Supreme Court is Moving Away from Prosecuting Human Rights Abuses Abroad
Introduction In 2003, a terrorist detonated a suicide bomb while on board a bus in Haifa. This event was part of a larger series of attacks against Israelis — a...
Democratic Identity in Postwar America: The Politicization of Asian Americans in the Early Cold War
Written By: Sarah Lu, Columbia University A series of unresolved fragments, we come together as a contingent whole. We gain social recognition as a racial colle...
The Organization of American States and Democratic Erosion: The Cases of Venezuela and Nicaragua
Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Leonardo Di Bonaventura, INTRODUCTION Latin America has experienced an unprecedented rise in democratic regimes since the 1990s. I...
El Salvador’s Femicide Crisis
Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Sophie Huttner, Yale ’22 By the time a Salvadoran woman turns thirty, she will more likely than not have experienced gender-...