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Category: Americas

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

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Americas/Spring Issue/Essays

Community Solar Development in Bolivia: A Path Towards Climate Resilience, Decolonization, and Political Empowerment

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Celia Bottger

Analyzing the interactions between capitalism, colonialism, and the field of international development in Latin America, this paper explores small-scale, commun...

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Americas/Spring Issue/Essays

The Fall of the Alien Tort Statute: Why the Supreme Court is Moving Away from Prosecuting Human Rights Abuses Abroad

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Allison Merkel

Introduction In 2003, a terrorist detonated a suicide bomb while on board a bus in Haifa. This event was part of a larger series of attacks against Israelis — a...

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Americas/Winter Issue/Essays

Democratic Identity in Postwar America: The Politicization of Asian Americans in the Early Cold War

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Sarah Lu

Written By: Sarah Lu, Columbia University A series of unresolved fragments, we come together as a contingent whole. We gain social recognition as a racial colle...

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Americas/Winter Issue/Essays/Column

The Organization of American States and Democratic Erosion: The Cases of Venezuela and Nicaragua

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Leonardo Di Bonaventura

Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Leonardo Di Bonaventura, INTRODUCTION Latin America has experienced an unprecedented rise in democratic regimes since the 1990s. I...

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Americas/Winter Issue/Essays

El Salvador’s Femicide Crisis

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Sophie Huttner

Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Sophie Huttner, Yale ’22 By the time a Salvadoran woman turns thirty, she will more likely than not have experienced gender-...

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Americas/Column

A Review of Contemporary US Sports Diplomacy: How American Foreign Interests are Cushioned by its Professional Leagues

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Blake_Bridge

North America and the Caribbean Desk Written by: Blake Bridge, Davenport College ’23 In our current age of challenged liberalism and shifting world power, the n...

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Americas/Column

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

Posted on February 6, 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...

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