On Street-Side Sexism: Global Awareness for a Global Problem
Global awareness has recently risen about the street harassment experienced by women worldwide. Though there is little consistency in street climates towards wo...
Cuba as a Humanitarian Model in the 21st Century
A quick Google search of “Cuba Humanitarian Aid” generates countless pages of do-gooders soliciting donations for aid to Cuban citizens. The general perception ...
A Case for Clandestine Diplomacy: The Secret UK-US-Libyan Talks
Introduction From the Cuban Missile Crisis to today’s Israeli-Palestinian conflict, clandestine diplomacy has played an integral role in international relations...
Science and Technology in Modern China: A Historical and Strategic Perspective on State Power
Introduction “Carry out the policy of opening to the outside world and learn advanced science and technology from other countries. China cannot develop by...
The New Ottoman Citizen: Moderate Islamism and Kurdish Reforms in The Context of Neo-Ottoman Citizenship
The June 8, 2013 cover of The Economist featured the face of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, superimposed on the reclining, robed body of a 16th ce...
The Importance of the Diaspora’s Investment in Haiti
Introduction Since 1990, the Haitian government has transformed—with laborious displays of violence—19 times.[1] The trend is part of a cycle of sustained polit...
The Bodhisattva and Those Who Burned: On Self-Immolation and the Silence of the Dalai Lama
On December 4th of last year, Kunchok Tseten made his final decision. Leaving behind his wife and two children, ages three and four, Tseten strode to the center...
Imperial Contradiction: Australian Foreign Policy and the British Response to the Rise of Japan, 1894-1904
Introduction: Imperial Contradiction Can any nation depend for its defence upon a foreign policy entirely conducted by statesmen responsible to another nation? ...
Yale Model United Nations XLI Position Paper Award
The following essay was submitted as a position paper for the 41st Yale Model United Nations conference and was selected by the secretariat as an outstanding tr...
Freedom for Authoritarianism: Patriotic Hackers and Chinese Nationalism
Introduction In 2005, against the backdrop of increasing tensions between China and Japan, servers hosting the website of Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, Japanese Mini...