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Category: Americas

Americas/Comments/Europe

Greenlanders’ Response to Climate Crisis Will Determine Island’s Independence and International Recognition

Posted on November 2022 by Maxwell Cota / 0 Comment

Global warming has made Greenland’s melting ice sheets the largest contributors to rising sea levels. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a majo...

Africa/Americas/Asia/Comments/Europe/Middle East

Environmental Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative: Geopolitics and Climate Change

Posted on November 2022 by Ethan Chiu / 0 Comment

In his 1958 campaign speech, former United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared, “We are busily engaged in the construction of a gigantic road system ...

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...

Americas/Asia/Comments/Interviews

CFR President Richard Haass on World Order and the Challenges of the Future

Posted on August 2021 by Alex Abarca, Faisal Bandar & Liam Will

Richard Haass has served as the president of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2003. He is an experienced diplomat and policymaker and has written or edite...

Americas/Comments/Europe/Science and Technology

Propaganda in the Age of Post-Truth: The Evolution of Political Deception

Posted on May 2021 by Liam Will

“Post-truth” was the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016. It was meant to put a name to what felt like a new and alarming trend in political di...

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...

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