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...
Italy, Europe and the Euro Crisis: Partnership for Reform or Discord for Disaster
Little more than two years ago, European news outlets and politicians spoke about the prospect of economic downturn and financial unrest as if it were only caus...
India 2012: Economic Performance & Challenges
The creation of a functional financial system is essential to the growth of developing countries. In the decades following its independence, the Indian governme...
Blackwater and Private Military Contractors
BLACKWATER On March 31, 2004, an enraged mob attacked and overturned a vehicle in the streets of Fallujah, Iraq.[1] Four men were dragged from the wreck and bea...
Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The question “who is to be blamed” wafts uneasily through the entire tapestry of Changez’s tale. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid, leaves the reade...
Health and the Huaorani
Nestled at the heart of the thick and humid Amazon jungle in Ecuador, the Huaorani tribe lives a quiet and conflicted existence, walking a perilous tightrope be...
I am a Seed of Peace: Music and Israeli-Arab Peacemaking
Seeds of Peace International Camp for Coexistence, a summer camp for teenagers from conflict regions around the world, particularly the Middle East, creates a s...
Dismissing Bo Xilai: A Red Canary in the Coal Mine Ahead of China’s Leadership
The dismissal of Bo Xilai from his position as the CPC Chongqing Committee Secretary after the Wang Lijun incident has received widespread coverage in internati...
Letter from the Editor (Vol. 2, Issue 2)
Welcome to the Summer 2012 issue of the Yale Review of International Studies. It has been an exciting couple of months for YRIS—we just wrapped up our speaker s...
Ghosts of the Recent Past
The recent international disagreements over Iran’s nuclear advances and related economic sanctions signal an all-time low in Iran’s relationship with the West. ...