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...
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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-...
A Review of Contemporary US Sports Diplomacy: How American Foreign Interests are Cushioned by its Professional Leagues
North America and the Caribbean Desk Written by: Blake Bridge, Davenport College ’23 In our current age of challenged liberalism and shifting world power, the n...
“Our Territory is Not for Sale:” Indigenous Led Anti-Extraction Social Movements in the Ecuadorian Amazon
An Excerpt of An Honors Thesis for the Department of International Relations at Tufts University Alexa Reilly Introduction: Indigenous Movements and Multination...
Is it ethical for the American people to be represented by billionaires?
North America and the Caribbean Desk Written by: Blake Bridge, Davenport College ’23 The most common American critique of the 2016 presidential election w...