The Sword Also Means Cleanness
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. By Scott Anderson. Doubleday, 2013, 592 pp. $28.95. It begins with hi...
Correcting Distorted Incentives in China’s Health Care System
After Chairman Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, China’s political transition was accompanied by an equally important economic transition and rapid liberalization. De...
The Business of Love: Inside Shanghai’s “Marriage Market”
Female, born in October 1974. Shanghai. 1.66m in height, unmarried. PhD at the London School of Economics & Political Science, now works at a famous univers...
Dictatorial Tendencies: Chaudhry and Pakistan’s Supreme Court
Necessity is the sister of tyranny, and nowhere is such a bond stronger than in Pakistan. In 1958, just eleven years after Pakistan’s founding, Chief Justice Mu...
“A Completely Muddleheaded, Confused, Angry Young Guy”: An Interview with James Reston Jr.
This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. James Reston is the author of 15 books, three plays, and numerous articles in national magazines. He was awa...
Obliteration and Affirmation: The Language of Suprematism in Malevich
Following the First World War, the prevailing modernist trend in art underwent a startling transformation. While it initially appeared that painting was traveli...
Information and Communication: Two Sides of Information Communication Technologies
Global Usage of Information Communication Technologies In the past twenty years, the world has experienced tremendous progress in the accessibility of informati...
No Respite – The Euro Crisis and the CFSP
Looking at the European Union from an outside perspective—let’s say from Yale— leads almost inevitably to one question: When will they finally solve their econo...
Letter from the Editors (Vol. 4, Issue 1)
Dear Reader: We’ve been thrilled — though hardly surprised — to see just how broad and deep Yale’s pool of student scholarship in inter- national studies runs. ...
Politics in Period Costume: The Popular Front in the Works of Eric Hobsbawm
All of us inevitably write out of the history of our own times when we look at the past and, to some extent, fight the battles of today in period costume. But t...
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