Letter from the Editors (Vol. 5, Issue 1)
Dear Reader: It is with great pleasure that we present you with this fall’s intercollegiate edition of the Yale Review of International Studies. Now in its seco...
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Letter from the Editors (Vol. 4, Issue 3)
This year, we were humbled again by student interest in the Dean Gooderham Acheson Prize for Outstanding Essays in International Studies. The more than one hund...
Letter from the Editors (Vol. 4, Issue 2)
Dear Reader: In this issue of the Yale Review of International Studies, the seventh since our founding, we’re proud to continue and renew our commitment to prov...
Janet Yellen and International Impact at the Federal Reserve
Barack Obama recently announced his nomination of Janet Yellen as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Though the Fed chair has always wielded extensive po...
The Business of Love: Inside Shanghai’s “Marriage Market”
Female, born in October 1974. Shanghai. 1.66m in height, unmarried. PhD at the London School of Economics & Political Science, now works at a famous univers...
No Respite – The Euro Crisis and the CFSP
Looking at the European Union from an outside perspective—let’s say from Yale— leads almost inevitably to one question: When will they finally solve their econo...
Letter from the Editors (Vol. 4, Issue 1)
Dear Reader: We’ve been thrilled — though hardly surprised — to see just how broad and deep Yale’s pool of student scholarship in inter- national studies runs. ...
Down with Non-Complicity
There’s a whole range of reasons to be sensibly skeptical of American involvement in the Syrian conflict – our national interest there is poorly defined, we hav...
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...
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...