Prosecuting Heads of State: The Legacy of the Charles Taylor Trial
With the Special Court of Sierra Leone (SCSL) requesting time to deliberate both on the prosecution and defense’s appeals earlier this year, the fight to convic...
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Transforming Education: Massive Online Open Courses
Access to classroom learning is far from universal, and even those enrolled in formal educational institutions may be looking for greater, free, and more conven...
Letter from the Editors (Acheson Prize, Vol. 3, Issue 2)
Dear Reader: We’re immensely proud to present the 20l3 Acheson Prize issue of the Yale Review of International Studies. This issue follows a full year of planni...
Seeing What We Want, When and Where We Want It
Lakhdar Brahimi’s credentials are impeccable, fruit of the Algerian statesman’s long career, and he’s as able a candidate as any to serve as United Nations spec...
Putin and USAID: The Makings of a Grip Too Tight on Power
In September 2012, the Russian government, headed by President Vladimir Putin, mandated that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) cease operati...
Letter from the Editors (Vol. 3, Issue 1)
Dear Reader: Welcome to the fourth issue of the Yale Review of International Studies. It is hard to believe that it has been nearly two years since a small but ...
Stories from South Tel Aviv: The Plight of African Asylum Seekers in Israel
In 1948, the newly established Jewish and democratic State of Israel asserted in its Declaration of Independence that “The State of Israel will be open for Jewi...
The Northern Distribution Network and Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The United States has committed to withdrawing from Afghanistan by 2014. Given the sheer amount of equipment and number of personnel currently on the ground, t...
Dismissing Bo Xilai: A Red Canary in the Coal Mine Ahead of China’s Leadership
The dismissal of Bo Xilai from his position as the CPC Chongqing Committee Secretary after the Wang Lijun incident has received widespread coverage in internati...
Letter from the Editor (Vol. 2, Issue 2)
Welcome to the Summer 2012 issue of the Yale Review of International Studies. It has been an exciting couple of months for YRIS—we just wrapped up our speaker s...