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Category: Science and Technology

Africa/Africa/Comments/Science and Technology

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Approaches to Cooperation and Conflict Resolution

Posted on March 2023 by Ethan Chiu / 0 Comment

Introduction The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a massive hydroelectric dam under construction on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia. Upon completion, t...

Comments/Science and Technology

Facebook’s Australian News Ban: Implications for Freedom of Political Communication

Posted on February 2022 by Jess Honan

As part of the backlash against the Australian government’s deliberation over whether Facebook should pay media outlets to use their news content in February th...

Americas/Comments/Europe/Science and Technology

Propaganda in the Age of Post-Truth: The Evolution of Political Deception

Posted on May 2021 by Liam Will

“Post-truth” was the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016. It was meant to put a name to what felt like a new and alarming trend in political di...

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 ...

Comments/Science and Technology

The Global Effort for Vaccine Distribution

Posted on March 2021 by Adia Keene

At the end of February 2021, 2.495 million people had passed away as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Over the past year, public health officials have trie...

Comments/Science and Technology

Government Surveillance and the Right to Privacy in the 21st Century

Posted on March 2021 by Jessica Honan

The right to privacy has existed in international law since 1966, but the improved capacity of governments’ surveillance and spying software in the past decade ...

Asia/Comments/Science and Technology

Internet Blackouts as a Political Tool in Kashmir, India

Posted on November 2020 by Jessica Honan

The increasing availability of the internet around the world has made it a platform for expressing and debating political ideas.[1] The internet has allowed for...

Asia/Comments/Science and Technology

TikTok: A Contested Global Space

Posted on November 2020 by Adia Keene and Minahil Nawaz

As pandemic related shutdowns around the world have confined many people to their homes, one social media app has exploded in popularity. TikTok, which allows u...

Comments/Science and Technology

Transportation in Transition

Posted on October 2019 by Marianna Sierra

Latin America Desk Written by: Marianna Sierra, Yale College ’23 With a ground area of just over 1,000 square miles, Peru’s capital has one of the highest...

Comments/Science and Technology/Spring Issue

Failure of Global Governance: The United Nations’ Failure to Stop North Korean Nuclear Weapons

Posted on April 2019 by Diana Myers

“[Nuclear weapons is] the firm guarantee by which our descendants can enjoy the most dignified and happiest life in the world” – Kim Jong Un[1] North Korea has ...

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