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RannOfKutch
Acheson Prize

1st Place — The State in the Salt Marsh: The Conception, Construction, & Conquest of the Rann of Kutch

Posted on September 19, 2024 by Daevan Mangalmurti

Introduction In 1965, India and Pakistan fought a four-day war over a patch of salty, barren territorypopulated by greater numbers of wild asses than men. In th...

BritishMandate
Acheson Prize

2nd Place — Trapped Empire: British Strategy at the End of the Palestine Mandate

Posted on September 19, 2024 by Aaron Schorr

Introduction “Historians have traditionally attacked the British for either failing the Jews, failing the Arabs, or failing the Empire.”1 British policy at the ...

SomaliaTelecom
Acheson Prize

3rd Place — Reexamining Bureaucracy in the Context of Somalia’s Telecom Success

Posted on September 19, 2024 by Beata Fylkner

Since the overthrow of former President Siad Barre (1991), Somalia has had neither a state nor a bureaucracy.1 After three decades marked by failed peace confer...

ColombiaVenezuela
High School Essay Contest

Destitute and Desolate: Colombia’s Compassion to Venezuela’s Vulnerability

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Manar Hadi

This essay won 1st Place in the 2024 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “Evaluate an example of a fore...

IndiaTibet
High School Essay Contest

India’s Tibet Policy: Empowering the Snow Lion to Stand Up to the Dragon

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Abana Dhillon

This essay won 2nd Place in the 2024 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “Evaluate an example of a fore...

IndusRiver
High School Essay Contest

The Flow of Diplomacy: Lessons from the Indus Water Treaty

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Dhwani Jambunathan

This essay won 3rd place in the 2024 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “Evaluate an example of a fore...

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High School Essay Contest

Setting it all Ablaze: John Howard’s 1998 Letter to B.J. Habibie

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Andrew Liu

This essay won an honorable mention in the 2024 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “Evaluate an exampl...

Phenom Penh Construction
High School Essay Contest

From Rising Sun to New Dawn: Japan’s Efforts in Cambodia’s Reconstruction

Posted on September 3, 2024 by David Liu

This essay won an honorable mention in the 2024 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “Evaluate an example of a foreign polic...

Prof. Westad
Interviews/Asia

‘Today’s world will not be a repeat of the Cold War:’ Professor Odd Arne Westad on the Evolution of Geopolitics

Posted on September 3, 2024 by Abla Abdulkadir

Odd Arne Westad is a Norwegian scholar of modern international and global history, with a specialization in the history of Eastern Asia since the 18th century. ...

Phillipines Journalists
Column/Asia

The Quandary of Expression: A Deep Dive into Freedom of Speech and the Press in the Philippines

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Robin Gabrielle Cu

Timothy Snyder, author of ‘On Tyranny,’ once said, “To abandon truth is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true then no one can criticize power, because there is...

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