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...
(Hon. Mention) Mapping Divided Berlin: The Politics of Under- and Over- Representation
When East Germans, looking at atlases of their country in the years 1960 to 1989, searched for maps of their capital, they often found images such as that in fi...
(Hon. Mention) “Hope Springs Eternal?” Agenda and idealism in the symbolization of the S.S. Hope
To be in a situation where people might die, or live in misery, if you weren’t there, is meaningful…I thought the HOPE needed me. Now I think I need...
(Hon. Mention) Teetering on the Edge: Iraq’s Precarious Hold on Democracy
The Iraqi government’s response to the Arab Spring-inspired “Day of Rage” protests in 2011 reflects the fine line the country often crosses between taking neces...
The 2013 Acheson Prize for Outstanding Essays in International Studies
“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...
The China Skeptic’s Talking Points Memo
Little more than three decades since the opening of China’s economy under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, the country has emerged as the greatest force reshapi...
Tweeting to Win: Al-Shabaab’s Strategic Use of Microblogging
Today, we live in a world of networked global communities, drawn together by the recent technological boom. This unprecedented degree of interconnectivity...
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