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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...

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...

Asia/Essays/Spring Issue

Collective China Crisis: An Analysis of China’s Threatening Rise and a Revival of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

Posted on April 2020 by Bryan Liceralde

Introduction Russian attempts to interfere in Western politics are well-documented. But, despite the similarities in policy, Chinese attempts at interference us...

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...

Asia/Essays/Spring Issue

How to Scare a Giant: Resolve Signaling in South China Sea Maritime Disputes

Posted on March 2020 by James Boehme

Written by: James Boehme, Tufts University Summary Introduction Vast quantities of International Relations scholarship published over the past several decades h...

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...

Essays/Europe/Winter Issue

Securitized in Solidarity: How Germany Exploited the Arab Spring To Normalize Schengen Border Externalization

Posted on March 2020 by Allison Meakem

Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Allison Meakem, Brown University Introduction During the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel recei...

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-...

Essays/Spring Issue

Authoritarian Environmentalism, Democracy, and Political Legitimacy

Posted on March 2020 by Mayson Glenne Obrien,

By: Mayson Glenne Obrien, University of Texas Our planet is warming at an alarming rate, due largely to human actions, such as burning fossil fuels and repurpos...

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