Explaining the Camp David Summit: An Individual-Based Approach to Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Introduction From September 5, 1978 to September 17, 1978, the American President Jimmy Carter, the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the Egyptian Presi...
Holding onto Hope: Palestinian Authority Institution-Building in the Post-Oslo Era Peace Process
The 1993 Oslo Accords, which marked Israel’s recognition of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the formation of the Palestinian National Authorit...
The Role of Law: American Rule of Law Reform Abroad and the Central and East European Law Initiative
Within ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, some 5,000 American lawyers and judges traveled to newly independent post-communist countries as par...
King Democracy: Do Democratic Nations Mitigate Conflict Over Transboundary Freshwater Resources Better than Other Nations?
Abstract The prospect of water wars and conflict over water are ideas that are frequently dramatized in media and also studied by scholars. It is well-establish...
Confronting the ‘Post-Conflict’ Label: An Exploration of Ethno-Sectarian Identity in Northern Ireland and Cyprus
Note: this paper was excerpted from a longer thesis, which is accessible here: brody-thesis-final. Introduction “There is something uniquely...
First Place – Wrestling with Rootlessness, Individual and Political: Tracking Refugees from Crisis Toward a New Language and New Politics
Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena: homelessness on an unprecedented scal...
Second Place – From Pan-Arabism to Pan-Africanism: Sonic Solidarities in Francophone North Africa, 1930-Present
Soit que l’on considère le Maroc du point de vue social, comme membre de la grande famille musulmane, soit que, par sa nature géographique, on l’intègre ...
Third Place – Repatriating Machu Picchu: On the Yale Peruvian Expedition and the Imperialism of Archaeology
Stone within stone, and man, where was he? -Pablo Neruda, “Heights of Machu Picchu”, 1944 One of the most astounding displays of national unity in...
Honorable Mention – Disaggregating the Coercive Apparatus: The Competing Calculi of Parallel Security Institutions in Egypt and Tunisia
“Our revolution is your revolution,” yelled General Rachid Ammar to more than 1000 demonstrators in the Tunis public square, relieving the infamous coercive app...
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