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High School Essay Contest

Ensuring Cooperation for Central Asia’s Water Woes

Posted on May 2022 by Evan Burkeen

1st Place, High School Essay Contest 2022 On April 28, 2021, border personnel from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan fired on each other, marking the beginning of a bor...

Comments/Middle East

Allies First, Deals Second: An Analysis of the Iran Deal

Posted on April 2022 by Rohan Krishnan

From the onset of the Biden presidency, the administration has promised the American people a renewed agreement, or “Iran Deal,” to cull nuclear proliferation b...

Acheson Prize

Are Protests Effective?: Examining the Impact of Protests Against Gender-Based Violence on Legislation in Nigeria

Posted on June 2021 by Feyi Falana

1. INTRODUCTION On May 28, 2020, Vera Uwalia Omosuwa, a 22-year-old college student in Edo State, Nigeria was raped and sexually assaulted while studying in a c...

Acheson Prize

The Zapatista Army: A Feminist Revolution Existing within the Patriarchy

Posted on June 2021 by Grace Miller

Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico’s President from 1988 to 1994, was seated comfortably with close family and friends at a resort in Huatulco, Oaxaca the evenin...

Acheson Prize

Paratexts and Plurality: Mediation in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon

Posted on June 2021 by Rebecca Amonor

TO THE DIVERSE AND DYNAMIC PEOPLE OF LAGOS, NIGERIA—ANIMALS, PLANT, AND SPIRIT These are the opening words of Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon (2014) and the dedication ...

High School Essay Contest

Japanese Culture and Government: How Culture Influences Politics, Governance, and Priorities

Posted on May 2021 by Yewon Chang

3rd Place, High School Essay Contest 2021 臭い物に蓋 — Put a lid on what smells bad. This Japanese saying reflects the nation’s culture of desiring to melt...

High School Essay Contest

Hope In a Whirlwind of Adversity: Rio De Janeiro’s Favelas

Posted on May 2021 by Anthony Rumbos

1st Place High School Essay Contest 2021 Along the alleys and narrow streets that line Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, the informal settlements whose distinctive red ...

Comments/Europe

Secularism, Separatism, and Silencing: How Islamophobia is Codified in the Name of ‘Laïcité’

Posted on April 2021 by Gianna Griffin

The French word, ‘laïcité’, represents the constitutional principle of secularism in France. The model of separating religion from public life has long been a c...

Essays/Spring Issue

Grassroots Medical Humanitarianism: Locally-led NGOs in Gaza, Humanitarianism’s Critics, and Agency

Posted on April 2021 by Adinda Wisse

This piece was published in the Spring Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) Introduction Humanitarianism has been often lauded as a form of compassion, solidarity, a...

Americas/Comments

The Prospect of Radically Inclusive Love in Latin America

Posted on April 2021 by Sofia Godoy

While holding Cuba’s first LGBTQ+ friendly mass, Alexya Salvador, a Brazilian transgender pastor, proclaimed God’s love to be radically inclusive. [1] Her words...

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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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