A Chance for A Sustainable Future – We Should Take It
In May 1st, I landed in a seaside city in China after almost forty hours of traveling. This was four months after the then “mysterious pneumonia-like” virus rai...
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Abubacarr Tambadou’s Case Against Myanmar: A Watershed Moment for International Law
In the eyes of scholars and policymakers who subscribe to the tenets of political realism, unconditional solidarity with any group beyond one’s borders, particu...
The Dutch Far Right is Booming. Here is Why and How it Should be Stopped.
In a country known around the world for its liberal reputation, the Dutch Far Right is booming. “Forum for Democracy” is an explicitly white nationalist party l...
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...
Shifting Justitial-Prophetic Roles of Churches and the Unfinished Business of National Reconciliation in South Africa
When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we h...
Brinkmanship as Climate Policy: Trials and Tribulations
In October 1962, the Soviet Union began to install long-range, nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba – an unprecedented expansion of Soviet reach.[1] President Kennedy...
Collective China Crisis: An Analysis of China’s Threatening Rise and a Revival of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Introduction Russian attempts to interfere in Western politics are well-documented. But, despite the similarities in policy, Chinese attempts at interference us...
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...
How to Scare a Giant: Resolve Signaling in South China Sea Maritime Disputes
Written by: James Boehme, Tufts University Summary Introduction Vast quantities of International Relations scholarship published over the past several decades h...