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Category: Americas

Americas/Comments/Middle East

A Means to End Nuclear Proliferation: An Argument for U.S. Recommitment to an Iran Nuclear Deal

Posted on April 2021 by Diba Ghaed

The City of Music is set to host a round of negotiations on a potential return to the magnum opus of nuclear agreements next week. Vienna, Austria’s capital cit...

Americas/Comments

The Prospect of Radically Inclusive Love in Latin America

Posted on April 2021 by Sofia Godoy

While holding Cuba’s first LGBTQ+ friendly mass, Alexya Salvador, a Brazilian transgender pastor, proclaimed God’s love to be radically inclusive. [1] Her words...

Americas/Essays/Spring Issue

A “Growing Concern”: The Public’s Xenophobia Toward and Discrimination Against Venezuelan Migrants in Ecuador

Posted on March 2021 by Shannon Guerra

Introduction Since 2015, over 4.7 million Venezuelans have left their country and become part of the largest exodus in the history of Latin America (UNHCR, 2020...

Americas/Essays/Europe/Spring Issue

Incentives to Stay Home? Why Foreign Aid Cannot Function Effectively to Deter Immigration or Address “Ethnic Hierarchy”

Posted on March 2021 by Sydni Scott

This paper examines the efficacy of the increasingly popular idea of utilizing foreign aid as a mechanism to deter immigration. This dynamic is evaluated in res...

Africa/Americas/Comments

The Dangers of Private Policing: Lessons from South Africa

Posted on January 2021 by Amelia Pollard

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...

Americas/Arts and Culture/Comments

Critiquing the Canon: Pancho Fierro and Peruvian costumbrismo

Posted on November 2020 by Ariana Habibi

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...

Americas/Comments

Below Us: A Very Brief History of Modern U.S.-Latin America Relations and Trump’s Legacy

Posted on November 2020 by Joaquín M. Lara Midkiff

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...

Americas

Fault Lines in the Legal Basis for America’s ‘Snapback’

Posted on October 2020 by Yagnesh Sharma and Pranav Agarwal

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...

Americas

21st-Century Powder Keg: How Bolivia’s Military Coup Puts South American Democracies At Risk

Posted on August 2020 by Ivana Ramirez

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...

Americas/Essays/Spring Issue

Community Solar Development in Bolivia: A Path Towards Climate Resilience, Decolonization, and Political Empowerment

Posted on April 2020 by Celia Bottger

Analyzing the interactions between capitalism, colonialism, and the field of international development in Latin America, this paper explores small-scale, commun...

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