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Essays/Acheson Prize

2nd Place – Sinking their Claws into the Arctic: Prospects for Sino-Russian Relations in the World’s Newest Frontier

Posted on May 4, 2014 by TaoTao Holmes / 0 Comment

“The Arctic is not only the Arctic Ocean… It is the place where the Eurasian, North American, and Asian Pacific regions meet, where the frontiers come close to ...

Essays/Acheson Prize

3rd Place – Four Ways to Matter in Pakistan: How Four of Pakistan’s Most Important Politicians Retained Power in Exile, 1984-2014

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Akbar Ahmed / 0 Comment

Former Pakistani President and Chief of Army Staff Pervez Musharraf entered self-imposed exile in April 2009. Given that he knew he’d face criminal charges in P...

Acheson Prize/Essays

3rd Place – The Invisible Ring and the Invisible Contract: Corporate Social Contract as the Normative Basis of Corporate Environmental Responsibility

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Dilong Sun

In Book I of the Republic, Plato proposes one of the most troubling and puzzling ethical questions in Western philosophical tradition through the “Ring of...

Essays/Acheson Prize

Honorable Mention – Women of War: The Female Fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Erin Alexander / 0 Comment

Since the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War in 1983, Tamil women have occupied a key role in the conflict. In the struggle for the anticipated state of Tamil Ee...

Essays/Acheson Prize

Honorable Mention – How Did the Chicken Cross the Pacific? Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Appeal to China’s Culinary Tradition in Creating Its Fast Food Empire

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Jack Linshi / 0 Comment

The story of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in China begins on November 12, 1987 at around 9:30 AM in central Beijing. On the side of QianmenxiRoad, nestled on th...

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Letter from the Editors (Vol. 4, Issue 3)

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Editorial Board / 0 Comment

This year, we were humbled again by student interest in the Dean Gooderham Acheson Prize for Outstanding Essays in International Studies. The more than one hund...

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Acheson Prize

Announcing The 2014 Acheson Prize

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Editorial Board / 0 Comment

“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...

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Letter from the Editors (Vol. 4, Issue 2)

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Editorial Board / 0 Comment

Dear Reader: In this issue of the Yale Review of International Studies, the seventh since our founding, we’re proud to continue and renew our commitment to prov...

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Janet Yellen and International Impact at the Federal Reserve

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Allison Lazarus / 0 Comment

Barack Obama recently announced his nomination of Janet Yellen as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Though the Fed chair has always wielded extensive po...

Essays

Beware of Dog: Bluff and Denial in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Samuel Obletz

In December 2003, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was hiding in a spider hole. It was a stark decline for a dictator responsible for ensnaring the United States ...

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