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Americas/Spring Issue/Essays

Community Solar Development in Bolivia: A Path Towards Climate Resilience, Decolonization, and Political Empowerment

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Celia Bottger

Analyzing the interactions between capitalism, colonialism, and the field of international development in Latin America, this paper explores small-scale, commun...

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Africa/Column

Shifting Justitial-Prophetic Roles of Churches and the Unfinished Business of National Reconciliation in South Africa

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Ankushi Mitra

When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we h...

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Americas/Spring Issue/Essays

The Fall of the Alien Tort Statute: Why the Supreme Court is Moving Away from Prosecuting Human Rights Abuses Abroad

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Allison Merkel

Introduction In 2003, a terrorist detonated a suicide bomb while on board a bus in Haifa. This event was part of a larger series of attacks against Israelis — a...

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Column

Brinkmanship as Climate Policy: Trials and Tribulations

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Andy Xie

In October 1962, the Soviet Union began to install long-range, nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba – an unprecedented expansion of Soviet reach.[1] President Kennedy...

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Reviews

Jason Lyall’s “Divided Armies”

Posted on April 17, 2020 by Henry Suckow-Ziemer

What makes an army succeed or fail on the battlefield? Too often this question is answered in general terms; superior technology, greater numbers, a larger and ...

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Asia/Spring Issue/Essays

Collective China Crisis: An Analysis of China’s Threatening Rise and a Revival of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

Posted on April 17, 2020 by Bryan Liceralde

Introduction Russian attempts to interfere in Western politics are well-documented. But, despite the similarities in policy, Chinese attempts at interference us...

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Americas/Winter Issue/Essays

Democratic Identity in Postwar America: The Politicization of Asian Americans in the Early Cold War

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Sarah Lu

Written By: Sarah Lu, Columbia University A series of unresolved fragments, we come together as a contingent whole. We gain social recognition as a racial colle...

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Asia/Spring Issue/Essays

How to Scare a Giant: Resolve Signaling in South China Sea Maritime Disputes

Posted on March 20, 2020 by James Boehme

Written by: James Boehme, Tufts University Summary Introduction Vast quantities of International Relations scholarship published over the past several decades h...

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Americas/Winter Issue/Essays/Column

The Organization of American States and Democratic Erosion: The Cases of Venezuela and Nicaragua

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Leonardo Di Bonaventura

Winter Issue 2019 Written by: Leonardo Di Bonaventura, INTRODUCTION Latin America has experienced an unprecedented rise in democratic regimes since the 1990s. I...

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Column/Reviews/Asia/Middle East/Arts and Culture

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh – Genocide, Resistance, and Revelations for Today

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Yicheng Zhang

Written by: Yicheng Zhang, Tufts University ’21 The novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was written by the Austrian-Jewish writer Franz Werfel in ...

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