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Category: Americas

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...

Americas/Essays/Spring Issue

The Fall of the Alien Tort Statute: Why the Supreme Court is Moving Away from Prosecuting Human Rights Abuses Abroad

Posted on April 2020 by Allison Merkel

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...

Americas/Essays/Winter Issue

Democratic Identity in Postwar America: The Politicization of Asian Americans in the Early Cold War

Posted on March 2020 by Sarah Lu

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...

Americas/Comments/Essays/Winter Issue

The Organization of American States and Democratic Erosion: The Cases of Venezuela and Nicaragua

Posted on March 2020 by Leonardo Di Bonaventura

Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Leonardo Di Bonaventura, INTRODUCTION Latin America has experienced an unprecedented rise in democratic regimes since the 1990s. I...

Americas/Essays/Winter Issue

El Salvador’s Femicide Crisis

Posted on March 2020 by Sophie Huttner

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-...

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