Letter from the Masthead: Fall 2024
Hola, bonjour, marhaban, privet, nǐ hǎo, and hello! Whether you’re reading this from a rondavel in Botswana, a reihenhaus in Germany, a rickshaw in Cambodia, or...
Martians in the Gobi: Mongolia’s New Approach to Space Policy
Introduction In March, Mongolia was welcomed into the international space community by successfully sending two nanosatellites, Ondosat-Owl-1 and Ondosat-Owl-2,...
The Evolving Zainichi Identity and Multicultural Society in Japan
Introduction The notion of ethnic homogeneity has served a potent role in building modern nation-states. Governments have often used perceived ethnic homogeneit...
Trading the Rope: How Chinese Dual-Use Investment is Destabilizing South Asia
Earlier this year, Chinese state-owned Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group delivered the first of eight Hangor-class submarines to Pakistan continuing the decad...
A New Regime: The Middle East after Masoud Pezeshkian’s Election in Iran
On May 19, 2024, former Iranian president Ibraheem Raisi, among other comrades, died in an aircraft accident in Iran. Either he was killed in a natural accident...
Portraits of Erasure: The Ethnic Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh
Two Artsakhtsis displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh in Goris, Armenia with the few possessions they managed to bring with them. | Credit: Anoush Baghdassarian. One ...
1st Place — The State in the Salt Marsh: The Conception, Construction, & Conquest of the Rann of Kutch
Introduction In 1965, India and Pakistan fought a four-day war over a patch of salty, barren territorypopulated by greater numbers of wild asses than men. In th...
2nd Place — Trapped Empire: British Strategy at the End of the Palestine Mandate
Introduction “Historians have traditionally attacked the British for either failing the Jews, failing the Arabs, or failing the Empire.”1 British policy at the ...
3rd Place — Reexamining Bureaucracy in the Context of Somalia’s Telecom Success
Since the overthrow of former President Siad Barre (1991), Somalia has had neither a state nor a bureaucracy.1 After three decades marked by failed peace confer...
Destitute and Desolate: Colombia’s Compassion to Venezuela’s Vulnerability
This essay won 1st Place in the 2024 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “Evaluate an example of a fore...