The Myth of the Failed State: Political Order and Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
In 2001, the term “state failure” became one of the structuring concepts of political thought and policy-making in the Western world. Although the term itself –...
Category: Essays
Growth and Success in Kerala
Introduction to Kerala Kerala stands out among the states of India, not only for its relative poverty, but for the truly remarkable array of basic health ...
Fight in the Cause of God? Dynamics of Religion in Separatist Conflicts
In 1991, Chechnya, an autonomous republic in the mountainous North Caucasus region of the former Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, declared its independence. D...
(1st Place) The United Nations Congo Intervention: A Force of Decolonization
“1960 was the decolonization year. It was this year that the decolonization process started in full force, and he [Hammarskjold] felt that what happened to the ...
(2nd Place) Caribbean Zomia: Maroonage and State Evasion in the Jamaican Highlands
In The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, James C. Scott proposes a paradigm shift in the historical understanding of pop...
(3rd Place) Unstable Ground: The 1968 Mexico City Student Protests
What happens when a revolution is turned on its head? When the lines between dominators and dominated become blurred? When it is no longer clear who is writing ...
(Hon. Mention) The Cold Arts of War Visual Shorthand for the ‘Long Telegram’
Just as the distrust, antagonism, and apparent irreconcilability of the Cold War polarized global affairs into communist-Soviet and capitalist-Western camps, so...
(Hon. Mention) The Non-Nicaraguan Reader: Poetry Workshops and the Nicaraguan Revolution
The Nicaraguan Revolution was a revolution in culture. After 500 years of imperialism, cultural policy was to rescue indigenous practices and progressive intell...
(Hon. Mention) Mapping Divided Berlin: The Politics of Under- and Over- Representation
When East Germans, looking at atlases of their country in the years 1960 to 1989, searched for maps of their capital, they often found images such as that in fi...
(Hon. Mention) “Hope Springs Eternal?” Agenda and idealism in the symbolization of the S.S. Hope
To be in a situation where people might die, or live in misery, if you weren’t there, is meaningful…I thought the HOPE needed me. Now I think I need...
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