By Zenna Johar
The United Nations recently called for its member states to show increased commitment to building sustainable and inclusive societies through the implementation of seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The third goal is to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages” by reducing premature mortality from non-communicable diseases.
Read MoreAn Interview with Ambassador Dennis Ross
Yale Journal of International Affairs (YJIA) caught up with the president’s former Middle East expert, Dennis Ross, to understand why Kerry’s shuttle diplomacy reached an impasse.
Read MoreBy Charlotte Juergens
In his old age, my great grandfather Pat recorded his memories of D-Day on tape. A former war correspondent with Stars and Stripes, Pat had attached himself to the 29th Division Infantry shortly before the initiation of Operation Overlord
Read MoreAn interview with David Dollar
In this interview, David Dollar, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former World Bank country director for China and Mongolia from 2004 to 2009, speaks with the Yale Journal of International Affairs (YJIA) about the TPP’s relevance to the Asia Pacific region, also touching on Vietnam’s growing strength and China’s future role in global trade.
Read MoreBy Mina Al-Oraibi
Ten years ago today, 9.7 million Iraqis ignored the naysayers and, braving threats of violence and bombs, voted in a referendum on their new constitution.
Read MoreBy Juan Zero
On August 27, 2015, seventy-one refugees were found to have suffocated to death in a frozen food truck that was abandoned on the Austria-Hungary border.
Read MoreDavid Biette spoke with the Yale Journal of International Affairs in April 2015, several weeks before the United States assumed the chairmanship of the Arctic Council. The interview reflects the wide-ranging set of issues facing the region, including security posturing, new frontiers in international law, and environmental considerations.
Read MoreBy Luis Ferreira Alvarez
On April 21, 2015, an estimated half a million Brazilians took to the streets to call for President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment over the billions embezzled from Petrobras (Brazil’s semi-public energy company). Yet President Rousseff did not even have to leave office to lose her power. Four days earlier, Rousseff gave her vice president, Michel Temer, who is from a different political party, control over her political agenda with Congress, effectively leaving her a lame-duck president with four years remaining in her second term. To regain control, Rousseff will need to focus her efforts on two priorities: lifting a stagnant economy and mitigating the fallout from Petrobras’ massive corruption scandal.
Read MoreBy Nikias Stefanakis
The short answer is “no”—our standards for declaring corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives a success are not good enough. Collectively, international development supporters seem content to draw positive conclusions about CSR initiatives before there has been enough evidence of their long-term success.
Read MoreBy Stephanie L. Schmidt
Four years after independence, South Sudan is still struggling to establish a new political system. This article lays out a strategy for developing interventions to achieve substantive rule of law goals by analyzing the context, national capacities, and needs and desires of the population.
Read MoreBy Enni Kallio
“A New Generation: Life in Rwanda Twenty Years after the Genocide” by Enni Kallio was the winner of YJIA’s 2015 Photo Essay Contest.
Read MoreUnderlying many of ASEAN’s initiatives is an emphasis on “ASEAN centrality”—the notion of ASEAN’s leading role in the regional architecture—a principle that has framed the way ASEAN has approached its external relations, in particular with the major powers, to ensure that its interests are protected and the regional stability preserved. Notwithstanding ASEAN’s best efforts, such an approach has not always resulted in success.
Read MoreAn interview with Ambassador Johnnie Carson, Former Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs (2009-2013) on the 2015 Nigerian Presidential Elections.
Read MoreBy Eliot Pence
No one truly knows what we are doing in development. We have spent billions of dollars and do not have much to show for it. Critics often point out that China has contributed more than any other country in reducing global poverty, despite having received nearly no development assistance.
Read MoreAn Interview with Patrick Murck, Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation
Murck discusses electronic payment systems, bitcoin, the Bitcoin Foundation, and other forms of cryptocurrency.
Read MoreBy Anders Fridén
Sweden should join NATO as soon as possible in order to provide a credible territorial defense, balance the security interests of Sweden and other regional actors, enhance the influence of the country within the European security context, and reap the benefits of coordinated defense and interoperability that participation in NATO would provide.
Read MoreBy Jennifer J. Carroll
While we should acknowledge the experience and knowledge of regional experts, even those distracted by right-wing actors, no one has more authority to characterize what Ukrainian activists are up to than those activists themselves, and they are telling a different story. We should listen.
Read MoreBy Mela Louise Norman
Michèle Flournoy is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Ms. Flournoy also served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2009 to 2012.
Read MoreBy Lauren Eades
Since December 2006 when then-president Felipe Calderón declared war on the cartels, over 100,000 Mexicans have been murdered, at least 30,000 have disappeared, and kidnappings have skyrocketed—with 132,000 kidnappings taking place in 2013 alone.
Read MoreAn Interview with Graeme Reid, LGBT Program Director at Human Rights Watch
Yale African Studies MA Candidate Alexander Killen interviews Reid about LGBT rights on the international stage.
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