From Rising Sun to New Dawn: Japan’s Efforts in Cambodia’s Reconstruction

Posted on September 3, 2024 by David Liu

This essay won an honorable mention in the 2024 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “Evaluate an example of a foreign polic...

Acheson Prize

First Place — On the Shores of Bab-el-Mandeb: Assessing China’s First Overseas Military Base in Djibouti and Chinese Grand Strategic Vision for the Horn of Africa and Indian Ocean

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Monica Wang

Image caption: U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to Camp Lemonnier walk on the deck of the Chinese hospital ship, Ark Peace, in the Port of Djibouti, August 28, ...

Essays

Treasure Not Found in the Ground: Political Institutions and Resource Wealth in Botswana and Gabon

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Matthew Taylor King

School students celebrating Botswana’s 50th independence day. Photo by Mahyar Sheykhi. This piece originally appeared in the Intercollegiate Issue 2017 of...

Essays

Biopolitics in the Borderlands: The Securitization of Development in the Global Liberal World Order

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Samuel Singler

U.S. government officials were in Lubumbashi the week of July 14, 2015, to introduce USAID/DRC’s new five-year country strategy to provincial government a...