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Spring Issue/Essays/Americas

A “Growing Concern”: The Public’s Xenophobia Toward and Discrimination Against Venezuelan Migrants in Ecuador

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Shannon Guerra

Introduction Since 2015, over 4.7 million Venezuelans have left their country and become part of the largest exodus in the history of Latin America (UNHCR, 2020...

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Spring Issue/Essays

The Empowerment of Women: Implications for Development and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Aly Logue

Abstract When investigating why some countries develop and become prosperous and others remain in poverty and conflict, experts have discovered that women can m...

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Spring Issue/Essays/Americas/Europe

Incentives to Stay Home? Why Foreign Aid Cannot Function Effectively to Deter Immigration or Address “Ethnic Hierarchy”

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Sydni Scott

This paper examines the efficacy of the increasingly popular idea of utilizing foreign aid as a mechanism to deter immigration. This dynamic is evaluated in res...

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Spring Issue/Essays

The Naxalite Insurgency in India: Addressing the Limitations of Greed and Grievance in Conflict Resolution

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Stuti Roy

I. Introduction The Indian state and academic analysis often adopt – unintentionally or otherwise – Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler’s global theoreti...

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Column/Asia

How Buddhist Nationalism Defines Myanmar’s Politics

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Amrashaa Singh

The military-led coup in Myanmar has met with widespread protests by people of diverse backgrounds, including Buddhist monks. The demonstrations by the monks ho...

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Column/Africa

Neocolonialism in Action: Vaccine Acquisition and Hesitancy in the West and Sub-Saharan Africa

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Roaa Shaheen

Amidst the cries for proper prevention protocols and the cycle of false alarms and viral resurgence, a new player has emerged in the global struggle against COV...

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Column/Science and Technology

The Global Effort for Vaccine Distribution

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Adia Keene

At the end of February 2021, 2.495 million people had passed away as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Over the past year, public health officials have trie...

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Column/Asia

Tyranny of the Majority: Sri Lanka and Buddhist Majoritarian Politics

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Shreyashree Nayak

Buddhism as a religion is a proponent of equality and typically condemns discriminatory and hierarchical structures in society. However, the involvement of Budd...

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Column/Europe

Why We Need to Uncover White Savior Logic of Volunteer Tourism

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Will Waddingham

Yearly, around 1.6 million tourists, most of whom are young, white and from Western countries, go on holidays to volunteer in the Global South.[1] These so-call...

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Column/Science and Technology

Government Surveillance and the Right to Privacy in the 21st Century

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Elizabeth Zietz

The right to privacy has existed in international law since 1966, but the improved capacity of governments’ surveillance and spying software in the past decade ...

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