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...
Egypt Unshackled: Can Egypt and Israel Keep the Cold Peace?
The popular protests that deposed Hosni Mubarak left in its wake critical questions: will the newly-democratizing Egypt continue on the path of former dictator ...
Soviet Lessons from Afghanistan: Insights for Post-2014 Support
Afghanistan is often referred to as the Graveyard of Empires. In completing the mission that began in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the United Stat...
The Myth of the Failed State: Political Order and Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
In 2001, the term “state failure” became one of the structuring concepts of political thought and policy-making in the Western world. Although the term itself –...
You must be logged in to post a comment.