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Category: Essays

Essays

The Outsiders: How The Lives of Margaret Thatcher and Angela Merkel Created Modern Europe

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Dhruv Aggarwal / 0 Comment

“We want the Community to move forward as twelve… Europe is strongest when it grows through willing co-operation and practical measures, not compulsion or burea...

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The ‘Modern Galahad’ and the ‘Apostle of Kultur’: Representations of the East African Campaign and the Imperial Gendering of British War Culture, 1914-1918

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Matthew Hershey

Although Kiboriani and Buigiri were called “Women’s Camp,” the [German military] man placed in charge of them was quite unfit to have the charge of ladies. His ...

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A YIRA Photoessay: The Social and Economic Development of Rio De Janeiro Prior to its World Sporting Events

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Editorial Board / 0 Comment

In March 2014, seven Yale undergraduates traveled to Rio de Janeiro as part of the Yale International Relations Association spring break delegation to Brazil. T...

Essays/Acheson Prize

1st Place – The Historiography of Postwar and Contemporary Histories of the Outbreak of World War I

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Tess McCann / 0 Comment

The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the A...

Essays/Acheson Prize

2nd Place – Sinking their Claws into the Arctic: Prospects for Sino-Russian Relations in the World’s Newest Frontier

Posted on May 4, 2014 by TaoTao Holmes / 0 Comment

“The Arctic is not only the Arctic Ocean… It is the place where the Eurasian, North American, and Asian Pacific regions meet, where the frontiers come close to ...

Essays/Acheson Prize

3rd Place – Four Ways to Matter in Pakistan: How Four of Pakistan’s Most Important Politicians Retained Power in Exile, 1984-2014

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Akbar Ahmed / 0 Comment

Former Pakistani President and Chief of Army Staff Pervez Musharraf entered self-imposed exile in April 2009. Given that he knew he’d face criminal charges in P...

Acheson Prize/Essays

3rd Place – The Invisible Ring and the Invisible Contract: Corporate Social Contract as the Normative Basis of Corporate Environmental Responsibility

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Dilong Sun

In Book I of the Republic, Plato proposes one of the most troubling and puzzling ethical questions in Western philosophical tradition through the “Ring of...

Essays/Acheson Prize

Honorable Mention – Women of War: The Female Fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Erin Alexander / 0 Comment

Since the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War in 1983, Tamil women have occupied a key role in the conflict. In the struggle for the anticipated state of Tamil Ee...

Essays/Acheson Prize

Honorable Mention – How Did the Chicken Cross the Pacific? Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Appeal to China’s Culinary Tradition in Creating Its Fast Food Empire

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Jack Linshi / 0 Comment

The story of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in China begins on November 12, 1987 at around 9:30 AM in central Beijing. On the side of QianmenxiRoad, nestled on th...

Essays

Beware of Dog: Bluff and Denial in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Samuel Obletz

In December 2003, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was hiding in a spider hole. It was a stark decline for a dictator responsible for ensnaring the United States ...

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