The Mongolian “Hoop Dream” — Creation of American Soft Power Through Basketball
“Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you.” – Michael Jordan Introduction Recent years have seen the slow erosion of US influence i...
Tag: American foreign policy
Looking Beyond Ukraine: How decisive U.S. action in the Ukraine crisis can help Taiwan
Near the Ukrainian border and in Crimea – a peninsula forcibly annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014 – the buildup of Russian military forces is a point of gro...
Shaping Saddam: How the Media Mythologized A Monster — Honorable Mention
This essay first appeared in the Acheson Prize 2018 Issue of the Yale Review of International Studies. Saddam Hussein was not involved in the terrorist attacks ...
Interview with YPG volunteer soldier Brace Belden
In May, YRIS Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Siegel (MY ‘20) had the chance to talk over the phone with Brace Belden, a former soldier for the YPG (In Kurdish, Yekîne...
The Responsibility to Protect through the Realist Lens: Strategic Choice, Inconsistency, and Delegitimation
This piece was originally published in the Spring 2018 issue of the Yale Review of International studies. Photo caption: The flags fly outside of the United Nat...
The Future of Unipolarity
After the bipolar world order ended with the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, what was left, some argued, was a new power distribution within the ...
Should the United States Implement Democracy in the Muslim World?
The Islamist Ennahda party in Tunisian parliament. Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent establishment of Western liberal hegemony, American ac...
Rebuilding Afghanistan in Its Own Failed Image
The Afghani Parliament in 2006. When it comes to the state-building effort in Afghanistan, there would seem to be plenty to criticize in the realm of poor polic...
Review: Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety
Gideon Rachman’s Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety is a revealing account of the past progress and new challenges facing international politi...