Juncker vs Tusk: European Titans
Image Caption: Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, and Donald Tusk, President of the European Council shake hands. The two men at the hea...
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The Complexity of Slums: Mapping, Planning, Drafting Laws, Destroying Myths
Image Caption: The slums of Caracas, Venezuela demonstrate some of the difficulties in defining the concept of a ‘slum’ and how researchers struggle...
Qawwali as Media from its Traditional to its Modern Form
Image Caption: Qawwali musicians gather for a performance in Fatehpur Sikri, India. Religious injunctions in regards to music in Islam are teleological, or purp...
Integration in South America: A Brief Analysis of the MERCOSUR Case in Light of the European Experience
Image Caption: Some political scientists have judged MERCOSUR’s progress on integration against the benchmark set by the EU, but such a comparison may res...
Will Nguyen to be Reunited with Family
Image Caption: Yale graduate Will Nguyen is released by Vietnam after more than a month in detention for joining a protest against ‘special economic zones...
Saudi Arabia and Oil Depletion
Image Caption: As Saudi Arabia’s production and export of oil slows down, the nation will have to undergo a number of significant changes as it adjusts. S...
Review: On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis’ most recent book certainly puts the ‘grand’ in Grand Strategy. It spans roughly 2,500 years of history and draws upon the works and deeds of ...
Yale alum William Nguyen arrested in Vietnam protests against special economic zones
Image Caption: Active police presence in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam photographed by YRIS Editor Muriel Wang William Nguyen graduated from Yale College in 2008 an...
Caught between Baghdad and Erbil: The Political Struggle of Iraqi Turkmans
Image Caption: A man in traditional Turkman clothing sits in Altun Kupri, a town near Kirkuk, Iraq. In the summer of 2014, Arshad al-Salihi, head of the Iraqi T...
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
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, ...
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