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Category: Americas

Our Americas desk covers all of North, Central, and South America, as well as the Caribbean.

milei yris
Column/Americas

Populism Without a Hegemon: Argentina’s Foreign Policy After the End of Global Certainties

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Nahuel Nicolas Herz

For much of the past two decades, Argentina has enjoyed an outsized reputation among progressive audiences abroad. It was one of the first countries in the worl...

affirmative asylum yris
Column/Americas

A Comparative Analysis of Asylum Interview Delays and Their Impact on the Affirmative Asylum Process

Posted on December 13, 2025 by Jaiden Whitner

The affirmative asylum system in the United States is designed to function as a linear legal pathway in which applicants file Form I-589, attend biometrics appo...

arctic yris
Column/Americas/Europe

The Polar Express. No, not that one.

Posted on December 6, 2025 by Thi Ha Phyo

For just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and...

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Column/Americas

Vanished Voices: The Trafficking Crisis Canada Cannot Ignore

Posted on December 6, 2025 by Chloe Ratner

In late-May of 2013, Ida Angotigirk, a member of the Salluit community in Northern Quebec, disappeared. After nearly a month of Angotirgirk being missing, it wa...

trumpspeechyris
Column/Americas/Asia

Trump’s Intentions Behind the Thailand–Cambodia Ceasefire: A Bid for “President of Peace”—and the Nobel

Posted on November 4, 2025 by Muhammad Salman

For five days in late July 2025, the world witnessed violence erupt once again on the Thailand-Cambodia border, one of the most prominent flashpoints in Southea...

smartpoweryris
Column/Americas

Smart Power in Practice: Statecraft Strategy for a Multipolar World

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Alexandra Anargyrou

Introduction The concept of smart power, first articulated by Joseph Nye in the early 2000s, has become a foundational framework for understanding how states na...

El Capitolio Havana Cuba
Column/Americas

Post-Castro, No Reform: Crafting a U.S. Strategy to Advance Cuban Freedom

Posted on August 21, 2025 by Carlos Perez

When the United States loses sight of its foreign policy goals, decisions that affect millions of people often devolve into emblematic gestures and political th...

yrisbitcoin
Column/Americas/Science and Technology

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Gamble: Lessons for a Digitally Financial Future

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Riley Avelar

This summer, the United States made history. On July 18, Congress signed into law the GENIUS Act, the first major crypto legislation in the nation. What makes t...

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Column/Americas/Asia

The Cold War and Taiwan: A Lesson for Modern U.S. Diplomacy

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Matilda Sophia Mottola

The Cold War may feel like distant history, but its echoes are unmistakable in today’s geopolitical landscape as the United States once again arms foreign allie...

immigration ai yris
Column/Americas/Science and Technology

Code and Control: How AI is Reshaping US Border Control

Posted on June 4, 2025 by Carrie Birdsall

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a key component of the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) technological strategy, particu...

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