Mauritius prime minister dissolves parliament, calls for election
South and Central Asia Desk Written by: Minahil Nawaz, Yale College ’21 On 6th October 2019, Mauritius’s Prime Minister, Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, dissolved...
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Japanese Colonial Ideology in Korea (1905-1945)
Written by: Yi Wei, University of Toronto Japanese colonial ideology operated in Korea from the times of the Korean protectorate, in 1905, to the end of the Sec...
Private Military Security Companies Role in State Responsibility
Written by: Jordan Patel, University of Toronto It was argued in 2003, when the laws that regulated private military security companies (PMSCs) in Iraq were rat...
James Comey Visits Yale
Written by: Juanita Garcia, Hopper College ’22 The Brady-Johnson program in Grand Strategy and the Yale College Democrats invited former FBI director Jame...
Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Returning Home
Written by: Sara S. Al Aloul, American University of Beirut Abstract The impact of the Syrian crisis had not only spilled over into neighboring countries, but o...
From Culturalism to Nationalism: Reexamining the Role of the May Fourth Movement in the Development of Chinese Nationalism
Written by: Xuemeng Bai, University of Toronto The May Fourth movement, one of the most politically, socially and academically diverse periods in Chinese histor...
Palestinian Nationalism through Anderson’s Imagined Communities: An evolution of Imperialism, Nationalism and Colonialism
Introduction Both limited and sovereign, Benedict Anderson’s theory encompasses a wide range of nationalisms, using such concepts as print capitalism and offici...
The EU-Turkey deal: a new form of human trafficking?
Written by: Sireen Haddad and Shatha Sabra, University of Haifa We are both Palestinians, currently studying for an undergraduate degree in law at the Universit...
Samantha Power Revisits Yale
Written by: Samantha Larkin By one o’clock, a dozen students had already taken the most coveted seats in Yale Law School’s Levinson Hall. Soon to be joined by c...
Clinging to the Past: A “Downtown Abbey” Film Review
Written by: Muriel Wang, Trumbull College ’20 This piece was published as part of YRIS’s new arts column. Be warned: spoilers ahead for the Septembe...