Yale UNICEF holds conference on child trafficking
Yale UNICEF, an undergraduate organization committed to raising awareness for international children’s issues, hosted its annual spring conference on Saturday, ...
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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...
Yale set to host conference on Cyberwarfare and Artificial Intelligence
The Johnson Center for American Diplomacy and the Jackson Institute will host their annual conference on April 6th and 7th, bringing together leading foreign po...
Fifty lies and a truth: Experiencing controversy in Ukraine and Georgia
Russian BMP-2 of the 58th Army of the North Caucasus Military District in South Ossetia during the 2008 South Ossetia War. This past Spring Break I had the oppo...
From Russia With Love: Mercenaries, Trolls, Oligarchs, and the Story of Yevgeniy Prigozhin
Two months ago, on the night of February 7th 2018, T-72 tanks, BRDM armored personnel carriers, and trucks carrying 122mm howitzer artillery and BM-21 rocket la...
Refugee and Immigrant Student Education holds spoken word festival
The Yale student group RISE (Refugee and Immigrant Student Education) hosted its second annual spoken word festival on March 2. RISE, formerly known as Students...
Hybrid War: A Definition and Call for Action
If one were to divide violent conflict into two broad categories, on one side would lie traditional, so-called “conventional” warfare, and on the other, asymmet...
Book Review: The Diffusion of Military Power by Michael C. Horowitz
Summary In his book ‘The Diffusion of Military Power” Michael C. Horowitz presents an adoption-capacity theory that seeks to explain when and how states success...
First undergraduate international policy competition held at Jackson Institute
On Saturday, February 10th, the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs hosted the first iteration of the Yale International Policy Competition, founded by Elisabe...