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Category: Asia

Asia/Comments

Performing Diplomacy: How a Newly Independent ‘Little Red Dot’ Managed Power, Impressions and Feelings on World Stage

Posted on September 2021 by Bryan Kwa

In 1965, when newly independent Singapore was attempting to assert its non-communist and multi-ethnic identity, Singapore faced two problems. First, the threat ...

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...

Asia/Comments

US FON Operations: Challenging Excessive Maritime Claims

Posted on August 2021 by Amrashaa Singh

In April, the USS John Paul Jones carried out a freedom of navigation (FON) operation in India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) 130 nautical miles (nm) west of t...

Asia/YMUN

Savita: An Unexpected Leader

Posted on August 2021 by Vishisht Singhal

2020 was a year that reversed the idea of humanity being a dominant power; it was a year where neither the global economy, global conglomerates, nor global lead...

Asia/Comments/Interviews

Translating Awareness into Action: Human Rights Advocate Daniel Sullivan on the Fight to End Genocide in Myanmar

Posted on June 2021 by Maya Albold, Roaa Shaheen & Natalie Simpson

Rohingya refugees walk to board a naval vessel to be relocated to to the island of Bhasan Char, in Chattogram, Bangladesh, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Az...

Arts and Culture/Asia

Positioning Photography in China: Liang See Tay and Elite Subjects

Posted on May 2021 by Aurelia Dochnal

Background When examining the arrival of western photographers to China in the 19th century, men wielding cameras, armed with a revolutionary means of image-rep...

Asia/Comments/Essays/Spring Issue

Dictatorship of the Vengeful: The Rise of Civic Authoritarianism in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines

Posted on April 2021 by Patrick Peralta

This piece was published in the Spring Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) “The real inversion takes place when, in their desire for a certain majesty, the masses j...

Asia/Comments

War and Nationalism: How North Korea Forges a National Identity from Loss

Posted on April 2021 by Alayna Lee

The upcoming anniversary of the Korean War is a reminder of the United States’ first military loss after 1945. Although the conflict ended with the Korean Armis...

Asia/Comments/Science and Technology

Nuclear Pacific: Ballistic Missile Defenses Drive an Arms Race in the Pacific

Posted on April 2021 by Cameron Freeman

American military leaders’ argument is simple: Pacific adversaries (particularly North Korea) have large and growing ballistic missile arsenals. To combat this ...

Asia/Comments

The Price of Progress: Indonesia’s Omnibus Law and the Environmental Sacrifice of Economic Expansion in Asia

Posted on April 2021 by Maya Albold

On October 5, 2020, the Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat (MPR) — Indonesia’s main parliamentary body—passed a long-awaited “omnibus bill” amending existing produc...

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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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