Portraits of Erasure: The Ethnic Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh
Two Artsakhtsis displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh in Goris, Armenia with the few possessions they managed to bring with them. | Credit: Anoush Baghdassarian. One ...
1st Place — The State in the Salt Marsh: The Conception, Construction, & Conquest of the Rann of Kutch
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...
2nd Place — Trapped Empire: British Strategy at the End of the Palestine Mandate
Introduction “Historians have traditionally attacked the British for either failing the Jews, failing the Arabs, or failing the Empire.”1 British policy at the ...
3rd Place — Reexamining Bureaucracy in the Context of Somalia’s Telecom Success
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...
Destitute and Desolate: Colombia’s Compassion to Venezuela’s Vulnerability
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...
India’s Tibet Policy: Empowering the Snow Lion to Stand Up to the Dragon
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...
The Flow of Diplomacy: Lessons from the Indus Water Treaty
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...
Setting it all Ablaze: John Howard’s 1998 Letter to B.J. Habibie
This essay won an honorable mention in the 2024 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “Evaluate an exampl...
From Rising Sun to New Dawn: Japan’s Efforts in Cambodia’s Reconstruction
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...
‘Today’s world will not be a repeat of the Cold War:’ Professor Odd Arne Westad on the Evolution of Geopolitics
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. ...