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. ...
When Soft Power is Too Soft: Confucius Institutes’ Nebulous Role in China’s Soft Power Initiative
“Henry Kissinger once told me that he believed that ancient Chinese thought was more likely than any foreign ideology to become the dominant intellectual force ...
Climate Change, Basic Rights, and International Obligations
Introduction: The Impact of Climate Change on Basic Human Rights Climate change poses an immense and growing threat to human rights around the world, but nation...
Truth Commission in Brazil: Individualizing Amnesty, Revealing the Truth
Introduction In 2004, the Brazilian newspaper Correio Brasiliense published a photograph of a man hanging in the Information and Operations Detachments and Comm...
Review: The Quest, But Are We Headed for Failure?
Daniel Yergin’s The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World[1] is his eagerly anticipated follow-up to The Prize, his 1992 Pulitzer-Prize ...
Prospects for Future Peace in Afghanistan: India as a US Partner
As America prepares to leave Afghanistan, it should help India find a greater and more measured role in the country. The US-India relationship...
Letter from the Editor (Vol. 2, Issue 1)
Welcome to the Winter 2011 issue of the Yale Review of International Studies. Started by a group of undergraduates in the fall of 2010, we are excited for our s...
2011: The Year the World Said No
In 2011 global protest movements, socially organized and electronically connected, ushered in massive political and economic changes. The “Arab Spring” raged in...