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Essays/Europe

A REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS OF ‘JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG’

Posted on August 2020 by Michael Levinson

The haunting German folk-song, “Wenn Wir Marschieren,”[1] serves as a cautionary point about collective German complicity in the Holocaust, and is used as ...

Essays/Europe

The Role of State Identity in Pandemic Response: The Case of Belarus and Georgia

Posted on June 2020 by Jahnavi Mukul

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the newly independent republics of Belarus and Georgia began the task of building their nation-states. The politic...

Asia/Comments/Essays/Winter Issue

The Evolving Zainichi Identity and Multicultural Society in Japan

Posted on June 2020 by Min Byung Chae

Introduction The notion of ethnic homogeneity has served a potent role in building modern nation-states. Governments have often used perceived ethnic homogeneit...

Acheson Prize/Asia/Comments/Essays

Can the Personal be Political?: A Critique of Gandhi’s Nonviolence in the Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement

Posted on May 2020 by Isabella Epstein Yale'21

Part I. Introduction  In 1841, Hong Kong became a British colony, having been ceded by China after the First Opium War. The British reaffirmed their sovere...

Acheson Prize/Comments/Essays/Europe

Brother-and-Sister Brotherhood: Sexual Harassment and Gender-Mixed Barracks in the Norwegian Armed Forces

Posted on May 2020 by Antonia Ayres-Brown Yale'21

The sun never rose the first day Kari began her service in the Norwegian Armed Forces.[1] Daylight didn’t appear at Setermoen Camp, a northern army base situate...

Acheson Prize/Essays

Cosmopolitan Culpability: The Dynamics of Mitigated Punishment and Migration

Posted on May 2020 by Keerthana Annamaneni Yale'20

A version of this article originally appeared in Inquiries Journal.Annamaneni, Keerthana. “Towards a Theory of Leniency for Immigrants.” Inquiries J...

Acheson Prize/Essays/Europe

Revisionist Memory: How the far-right Alternative for Germany is seeking to reshape the nation’s collective memory to promote a Eurosceptic, German-centric foreign policy agenda

Posted on May 2020 by Jesse Nadel

Throughout the history of modern Germany, an unwavering government commitment to the remembrance of the National Socialists’ atrocities has permeated an ingrain...

Acheson Prize/Asia/Essays

Military Modernizers: US Military Aid and the Indonesian Civic Action Program, 1958-1965

Posted on May 2020 by Gregory Jany, Yale '21

On March 12, 1958, an unidentified plane parachuted 20 cases of arms into the middle of a field in Pekanbaru, a city that became a major conflict zone in the In...

Essays/Europe

Franco-Era Spain and its Usage of Soft Power

Posted on May 2020 by Viktoria Wulff-Andersen

There is no doubt that juxtaposing themes such as cruelty and mercy, fear and love present throughout life and media contributed to the two-dimensional divide b...

Essays/Spring Issue

LDS Charities and Faith-Based Humanitarian Aid

Posted on April 2020 by Grace Shamlian

The women’s organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or LDS Church) has a motto: charity never faileth. It comes from the Book of Mormon...

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