Brinkmanship as Climate Policy: Trials and Tribulations
In October 1962, the Soviet Union began to install long-range, nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba – an unprecedented expansion of Soviet reach.[1] President Kennedy...
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The Organization of American States and Democratic Erosion: The Cases of Venezuela and Nicaragua
Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Leonardo Di Bonaventura, INTRODUCTION Latin America has experienced an unprecedented rise in democratic regimes since the 1990s. I...
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh – Genocide, Resistance, and Revelations for Today
Written by: Yicheng Zhang, Tufts University ’21 The novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was written by the Austrian-Jewish writer Franz Werfel in ...
Pride as Regret: The Psychological Well-being of Young Adults Who Are Children of Martyrs
Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Majlinda Zhuniq, University of Pristina Despite the fact that war in Kosovo has ended in 1999, the consequences of the loss of lov...
A Review of Contemporary US Sports Diplomacy: How American Foreign Interests are Cushioned by its Professional Leagues
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...
Why Attacking Farmers Won’t Solve the EU’s Environmental Crisis
By: Nathalie Bussemaker, Morse’21 With Greta Thunberg at the helm, millions of Europeans have rallied to the banner of climate activism. According to a 20...
Mounting tensions in the Middle East Following U.S. Killing of High-ranking Iranian Military leader
Written by: Jamari O’Neal, Hampton University Qasseem Soleimani On Friday, January 3, 2020, missiles struck the Baghdad International Airport killing seve...
A Pashtun Awakening Against All Odds
By Minahil Nawaz, TD’21 On January 28, 2020, Pakistani authorities detained two members of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) in the northwest city of Peshawar...
“Our Territory is Not for Sale:” Indigenous Led Anti-Extraction Social Movements in the Ecuadorian Amazon
An Excerpt of An Honors Thesis for the Department of International Relations at Tufts University Alexa Reilly Introduction: Indigenous Movements and Multination...
Life Beyond the Trash: The Story of E-waste in Agbogbloshie
Sub-Saharan Africa Desk Written by: Adoma Addo, Berkeley College ’23 Accra is a city of contradiction, from the kente-patterned skyscrapers in Airport Cit...