Putin and USAID: The Makings of a Grip Too Tight on Power
In September 2012, the Russian government, headed by President Vladimir Putin, mandated that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) cease operati...
Letter from the Editors (Vol. 3, Issue 1)
Dear Reader: Welcome to the fourth issue of the Yale Review of International Studies. It is hard to believe that it has been nearly two years since a small but ...
Stories from South Tel Aviv: The Plight of African Asylum Seekers in Israel
In 1948, the newly established Jewish and democratic State of Israel asserted in its Declaration of Independence that “The State of Israel will be open for Jewi...
Constitution as Reconciliation? Exogenous Influences on Post-Conflict Kosovo
“Kosovo is the love child of an international affair. We don’t know who we are. We don’t know what parent to look up to. We are a bastard child.” – Shkelzen Mal...
The Northern Distribution Network and Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The United States has committed to withdrawing from Afghanistan by 2014. Given the sheer amount of equipment and number of personnel currently on the ground, t...
Conversion and Settlement in Pre-Mandate British Foreign Policy
I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem, In England’s green & pleasant Land[1] With thes...
Review: China Airborne by James Fallows
With a recent glut of books from political commentators attempting to explore the modern Chinese economy, China Airborne by James Fallows stands out for it...
An Arendtian Analysis of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
On May 10th, 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first president of South Africa to have been elected by citizens of all races. The selection of a black...
Cold War Nationalisms: Metropolitan Encounters, WWII, and the Politics of Frantz Fanon and Ho Chi Minh
On 7 May 1954, a victory rang out in a northwestern province of Vietnam that reverberated throughout the colonial world. For the first time in modern memo...
Review: Why Nations Fail
To forgo reading Why Nations Fail – a weighty but intensely engaging investigation of the determinants of economic prosperity – is, it seems, to risk being left...