Sweden’s NATO Bid and Turkey-Kurdish Relations
Powerful organizations of world leaders rarely let new members into their ranks. On October 23, 2023, Turkey—a member of NATO since 1952—submitted Sweden’s bid ...
Lifting the 60 Year Embargo: Cuba’s Successes Make the Country a Model, Not an Enemy
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy announced an embargo on all trade with Cuba. This proclamation followed an organized effort by the United States to isolate t...
Ensuring Rare Earth Elements for National Security
In August of 2022, President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act enacted some of the largest-ever subsidies and rebates to incentivize the domestic production and c...
YIRA World Fellows Panel 2023: TRANSCRIPT
Each year, the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs selects a group of 16 extraordinary leaders from across the world to spend four months in residence at Yale...
The Ignored Cries of Tigray’s Women in Ethiopia
This essay won 1st place in the 2023 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “What is a current issue in internationa...
As China Saves Water, It Drains South Asia
This essay won 2nd place in the 2023 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “What is a current issue in international relation...
Beyond the Headlines: The Underreported Tragedy of the Anglophone Crisis
This essay won 3rd place in the 2023 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “What is a current issue in international relation...
A Technological Travesty: E-waste in the Philippines
This essay won an Honorable Mention in the 2023 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “What is a current ...
Invisible Children: How the media has failed to draw attention to one of Russia’s most pernicious war tactics
This essay won an Honorable Mention in the 2023 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “What is a current ...
Analyzing Taiwan’s Readiness and Response to PRC Offensive Cyber Operations
Offensive cyber operations (OCOs) are a critical component of the PLA’s zero-sum “intelligentized” warfare strategy against Taiwan, which the Russian war in Ukr...