A New Regime: The Middle East after Masoud Pezeshkian’s Election in Iran

Posted on November 8, 2024 by Alabbas F. Alsudani

On May 19, 2024, former Iranian president Ibraheem Raisi, among other comrades, died in an aircraft accident in Iran. Either he was killed in a natural accident...

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Letter from the Masthead: Fall 2024

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Editorial Board

Hola, bonjour, marhaban, privet, nǐ hǎo, and hello! Whether you’re reading this from a rondavel in Botswana, a reihenhaus in Germany, a rickshaw in Cambodia, or...

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Portraits of Erasure: The Ethnic Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh

Posted on September 27, 2024 by Kathryn Hemmer

Two Artsakhtsis displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh in Goris, Armenia with the few possessions they managed to bring with them. | Credit: Anoush Baghdassarian. One ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...