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Comments/Europe

Looking Beyond Ukraine: How decisive U.S. action in the Ukraine crisis can help Taiwan

Posted on January 2022 by Abby Schnabel

Near the Ukrainian border and in Crimea – a peninsula forcibly annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014 – the buildup of Russian military forces is a point of gro...

Acheson Prize

Shaping Saddam: How the Media Mythologized A Monster — Honorable Mention

Posted on June 2018 by admin

This essay first appeared in the Acheson Prize 2018 Issue of the Yale Review of International Studies. Saddam Hussein was not involved in the terrorist attacks ...

Interviews

Interview with YPG volunteer soldier Brace Belden

Posted on May 2018 by admin

In May, YRIS Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Siegel (MY ‘20) had the chance to talk over the phone with Brace Belden, a former soldier for the YPG (In Kurdish, Yekîne...

Essays

The Responsibility to Protect through the Realist Lens: Strategic Choice, Inconsistency, and Delegitimation

Posted on April 2018 by admin

  This piece was originally published in the Spring 2018 issue of the Yale Review of International studies. Photo caption: The flags fly outside of the Uni...

Comments

The Future of Unipolarity

Posted on April 2018 by admin

After the bipolar world order ended with the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, what was left, some argued, was a new power distribution within the ...

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Should the United States Implement Democracy in the Muslim World?

Posted on April 2018 by admin

The Islamist Ennahda party in Tunisian parliament. Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent establishment of Western liberal hegemony, American ac...

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Rebuilding Afghanistan in Its Own Failed Image

Posted on April 2018 by admin

The Afghani Parliament in 2006. When it comes to the state-building effort in Afghanistan, there would seem to be plenty to criticize in the realm of poor polic...

Book Reviews

Review: Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety

Posted on April 2011 by editor / 11 Comments

Gideon Rachman’s Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety is a revealing account of the past progress and new challenges facing international politi...

YRIS Acheson Prize Issue

The Yale Review of International Studies is currently soliciting submissions for our annual Acheson Prize Issue. The author of the winning essay will receive a monetary prize of $700, second place will receive $300, and third place will receive $200. We are accepting any essay related to international affairs under 40 pages double spaced. A panel of Yale professors will judge the essays, and the competition is exclusively open to Yale undergraduates. Students can submit their essays by email to yris@yira.org. Submissions are due on April 15.

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