Prosecuting Heads of State: The Legacy of the Charles Taylor Trial
With the Special Court of Sierra Leone (SCSL) requesting time to deliberate both on the prosecution and defense’s appeals earlier this year, the fight to convic...
Transforming Education: Massive Online Open Courses
Access to classroom learning is far from universal, and even those enrolled in formal educational institutions may be looking for greater, free, and more conven...
Announcing the 2013 Acheson Prize Winners
“The passing decades confirm Dean Acheson’s place as the clearest thinking, most effective Secretary of State of the twentieth century. As a writer he has...
(1st Place) The United Nations Congo Intervention: A Force of Decolonization
“1960 was the decolonization year. It was this year that the decolonization process started in full force, and he [Hammarskjold] felt that what happened to the ...
(2nd Place) Caribbean Zomia: Maroonage and State Evasion in the Jamaican Highlands
In The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, James C. Scott proposes a paradigm shift in the historical understanding of pop...
(3rd Place) Unstable Ground: The 1968 Mexico City Student Protests
What happens when a revolution is turned on its head? When the lines between dominators and dominated become blurred? When it is no longer clear who is writing ...
Introducing the 2013 Acheson Prize Judges
The 2013 Dean Gooderham Acheson ’15 Prize for Outstanding Essays in International Studies was judged by a distinguished panel of scholars. Ryan Crocker (le...
Letter from the Editors (Acheson Prize, Vol. 3, Issue 2)
Dear Reader: We’re immensely proud to present the 20l3 Acheson Prize issue of the Yale Review of International Studies. This issue follows a full year of planni...
(Hon. Mention) The Cold Arts of War Visual Shorthand for the ‘Long Telegram’
Just as the distrust, antagonism, and apparent irreconcilability of the Cold War polarized global affairs into communist-Soviet and capitalist-Western camps, so...
(Hon. Mention) The Non-Nicaraguan Reader: Poetry Workshops and the Nicaraguan Revolution
The Nicaraguan Revolution was a revolution in culture. After 500 years of imperialism, cultural policy was to rescue indigenous practices and progressive intell...
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