Letter from the Editors (Vol. 4, Issue 2)
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...
Janet Yellen and International Impact at the Federal Reserve
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...
Beware of Dog: Bluff and Denial in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
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 ...
Conditional Convenience: Venezuelan Support for FARC Since Hugo Chávez
Throughout his time in power, Venezuelan president Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias had a profound effect on the continuity and development of Colombia’s largest guerri...
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...