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Acheson Prize/Essays

Importing Arms, Exporting the Revolution: Mehdi Hashemi and His Fatal Leak to Ash-Shiraa

Posted on April 2019 by admin

Written by Rosa Shapiro-Thompson The story that broke in the small Lebanese weekly, Ash-Shiraa, on November 3, 1986, led to the exposure of a tangled story of s...

Acheson Prize/Essays

Historical Mirrorism: Reckoning with Migration and Integration in Italy

Posted on April 2019 by admin

Written by Trinh Truong “Friendship is indispensable to man for the proper function of his memory. Remembering our past, carrying it with us always, may be the ...

Acheson Prize/Essays

“A Transcript from Nature”: De-Essentializing Narratives of Imperialism in William Daniell’s The European Factories, Canton

Posted on April 2019 by admin

Written by Oriana Tang Beginning in 1514 with the arrival of the first Portuguese traders, the port of Canton in southeastern China became what postcolonial sch...

Acheson Prize/Essays

Developing Socially Conscious Curricula for Somali Schools: Teaching Human Rights Where Religious, Clan Customary, and International Law Collides

Posted on April 2019 by admin

Written by Noora Reffat INTRODUCTION Since 1983, the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation (DHAF) has served Somalia by promoting peace, health, and education in Hope Villag...

Acheson Prize/Essays

Reverse Cap-and-Trade for Refugees: A Proposal to Ameliorate the Refugee Crisis in the European Union through a System of Quotas and Markets

Posted on April 2019 by admin

Written by Jordan Farenhem Introduction From 2014 to 2017, over 1.8 million refugees were accepted by member states of the European Union.[1] In 2015 alone, ove...

Essays/Spring Issue

Hydropolitics in the Indus Basin: The Indus Water Treaty & Water Mismanagement in Pakistan

Posted on March 2019 by The Editors

Written by Uzair Sattar and Atrey Bhargava Introduction Pakistan could be water scarce by 2025.[1] In recent months, this prediction has generated headlines and...

Essays/Spring Issue

The Efficacy of UN Peacekeeping in Reducing Violence against Civilians

Posted on March 2019 by admin

Written by Min Byung Chae Introduction The fall of the Communist bloc in 1991 brought high hopes for the international community. In particular, there arose an ...

Essays/Spring Issue

Culinary Relations: Gastrodiplomacy in Thailand, South Korea, and Taiwan

Posted on March 2019 by admin

Written by Anna Lipscomb Abstract: Cuisine is an integral part of a nation’s culture and identity, as it captures the essence of its history, traditions, and va...

Essays/Winter Issue

Contradiction and Ambivalence: Mexico’s Cold War and the United States

Posted on December 2018 by admin

Image Caption: Former Mexican President López Mateos (left) was one of several presidents to navigate a complex and often contradictory Cold War forei...

Essays/Winter Issue

The Disappearance and Murder of Claudina Velasquez: A Story of Gender Stereotyping by Guatemalan Authorities

Posted on December 2018 by admin

Image Caption: Velásquez Paiz et al. v. Guatemala in the Inter-American Court revealed Guatemala’s failure to address stereotyping and gender-ba...

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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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