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Americas/Comments

“Our Territory is Not for Sale:” Indigenous Led Anti-Extraction Social Movements in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Posted on February 2020 by Alexa Reilly

An Excerpt of An Honors Thesis for the Department of International Relations at Tufts University Alexa Reilly Introduction: Indigenous Movements and Multination...

Essays/Spring Issue

Crossing a Bridge of Memory: Historical Memory and Populist Rhetoric in Post-Communist Czechoslovakia

Posted on March 2019 by admin

Written by Ben Gardner-Gill “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetti...

Comments/Winter Issue

Why Does the Military Stay in Power after Coups?

Posted on March 2019 by admin

Written by Maegan Liew Chew Min Introduction In The Republic, Plato likened auxiliaries to watch-dogs, and warned of them turning into wolves that turn upon the...

Comments/Winter Issue

The Dragon in the River of Shrimp: The Reality and Perception of Chinese Investment in Cameroon

Posted on March 2019 by admin

Written by Mbella Beseka BRI critics have denounced China’s efforts to invest and build diplomatic relations with African countries as veiled attempts to recolo...

Comments/Winter Issue

U.S.-China Relations Today: A Return To The Cold War?

Posted on January 2019 by admin

A Comparative Analysis between Current US-China Relations and US-Soviet Competition during the Cold War “It is in the spirit, the spirit of ’76, that I ask you ...

Comments/Winter Issue

Are Democratic Values Breaking the Ice?: Attitudes in the Frozen Caucasian Conflict

Posted on January 2019 by admin

Written by Karen “Ken” Krmoyan Abstract After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been waging war on the disputed region of Nagorno...

Comments/Winter Issue

Henry Kissinger and the Roots of Shuttle Diplomacy: Realpolitik, Bilateral Relations, and Domestic Motivations

Posted on January 2019 by admin

Written by Sarah Lu Introduction Former US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger considered himself a formidable force in US diplomac...

Comments/Winter Issue

From Encounter to Exodus: Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar

Posted on January 2019 by admin

Written by Kassandra Neranjan and Sakshi Shetty According to the United Nations, the Rohingya are amongst the most persecuted minorities in the world. The Rohin...

Comments/Winter Issue

Tiananmen in 1989: Tailoring Chinese Dissidents for American Consumption

Posted on January 2019 by admin

Written by Yixin Claire Ren “Events do not deliver their meanings to us. They are always interpreted.”—The Gate of Heavenly Peace While the 1989 student movemen...

Comments/Winter Issue

The Insidious Nature of E-Waste and the Onus on GAFA

Posted on January 2019 by admin

Written By Amelia Pollard Abstract This research paper evaluates the externalities that have ensued from the rise in consumption of electronic products. The atr...

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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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