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Category: Americas

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-...

Americas/Comments

A Review of Contemporary US Sports Diplomacy: How American Foreign Interests are Cushioned by its Professional Leagues

Posted on March 2020 by Blake Bridge

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...

Americas/Comments

“Our Territory is Not for Sale:” Indigenous Led Anti-Extraction Social Movements in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Posted on February 2020 by Alexa Reilly

An Excerpt of An Honors Thesis for the Department of International Relations at Tufts University Alexa Reilly Introduction: Indigenous Movements and Multination...

Americas/Comments

Is it ethical for the American people to be represented by billionaires?

Posted on November 2019 by Blake Bridge

North America and the Caribbean Desk Written by: Blake Bridge, Davenport College ’23 The most common American critique of the 2016 presidential election w...

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YRIS Acheson Prize Issue

The Yale Review of International Studies is currently soliciting submissions for our annual Acheson Prize Issue. The author of the winning essay will receive a monetary prize of $700, second place will receive $300, and third place will receive $200. We are accepting any essay related to international affairs under 40 pages double spaced. A panel of Yale professors will judge the essays, and the competition is exclusively open to Yale undergraduates. Students can submit their essays by email to yris@yira.org. Submissions are due on April 15.

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