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Category: Spring Issue

Essays/Spring Issue

The Empowerment of Women: Implications for Development and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan

Posted on March 2021 by Aly Logue

Abstract When investigating why some countries develop and become prosperous and others remain in poverty and conflict, experts have discovered that women can m...

Americas/Essays/Europe/Spring Issue

Incentives to Stay Home? Why Foreign Aid Cannot Function Effectively to Deter Immigration or Address “Ethnic Hierarchy”

Posted on March 2021 by Sydni Scott

This paper examines the efficacy of the increasingly popular idea of utilizing foreign aid as a mechanism to deter immigration. This dynamic is evaluated in res...

Essays/Spring Issue

The Naxalite Insurgency in India: Addressing the Limitations of Greed and Grievance in Conflict Resolution

Posted on March 2021 by Stuti Roy

I. Introduction The Indian state and academic analysis often adopt – unintentionally or otherwise – Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler’s global theoreti...

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...

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...

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...

Essays/Europe/Spring Issue

Integration in Latvia: Exploring a Thematically-Interconnected Discourse in an Ethnically-Divided Society

Posted on March 2020 by Colin Bushweller

By: Colin Bushweller; University of Vermont 1. Introduction “Our Latvia is not yet ready. We are still building it and on the way. Latvia should never be ready....

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