By Sophie Zinser and Dr. Hannah Thinyane
Integrating leaps in technology into the existing multilateral initiatives, local legal policies, and social movements against human trafficking will be the most effective way to address the problem at scale.
Read MoreBy Joseph Gayeski
How his history of Franco-Russian relations begs questions that he himself struggled to answer.
Read MoreBy Andrew Rennemo
Regulatory diplomacy that replaces political provocation with cooperation on technical issues, such as securities fraud, antitrust, and illicit trade, could be a first step toward restoring a measure of stability in the U.S.-China relationship.
Read MoreBy Paul Lendway
Using a national survey experiment consisting of rural white Republicans – a group that tends to oppose expanding redistributive programs – this study shows that informational and empathy-enhancing interventions are effective at increasing support for expanding Medicaid and Medicare benefits in the United States.
Read MoreBy Jacob Shiman
Current U.S. regulations aiming to counter money laundering and terror financing likely impact financing for the poor more than criminals. Cost-benefit analyses would make this clear and provide a path forward.
Read MoreBy Maria Santarelli
The United States should mitigate the suffering of Venezuelans within its own borders by granting Temporary Protected Status.
Read MoreBy Jacob Kurien and Bernard Yudkin Geoxavier
What steps should China take to successfully promote RMB internationalization? Jacob Kurien and Bernard Yudkin Geoxavier provide updated recommendations.
Read MoreBy Dr. Rafael Leal-Arcas
There is a paradigm shift in global environmental governance. Dr. Rafael Leal-Arcas explains how investment in smartgrids is a way to democratize energy.
Read MoreBy Nile Gardiner
China’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a wake-up call for Europe. The Chinese Communist Party’s less-than-transparent handling of the outbreak of the virus, and its subsequent efforts to pass blame to the West, have hardened anti-China sentiment in many European capitals.
Read MoreBy Sophie Kaldor
On June 15, 2020, Maria Ressa, one of the Philippines’ most prominent journalists, was found guilty of “cyber libel.” Human rights groups have condemned this verdict as a politically motivated prosecution by the Duterte government. On March 3, 2020, Ressa sat down with Sophie Kaldor from the Yale Journal of International Affairs for an interview, in which they discussed the links between social media and rising authoritarianism in the Philippines, global terrorism, and disinformation.
Read MoreBy Krista Mangiardi
From 2017-2019, I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Gansu, China. Having been on the ground, I believe that whether the closure is due to China’s development or to escalating U.S.-China tensions, the program should continue.
Read MoreBy Tae Eom
On December 18, 2018, at Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square, I encountered a drawing of a young Korean man whose eyes conveyed that he had many stories to tell. I realized it was part of a temporary memorial arranged for the young man, Kim Yong-gyun. I took out my phone to search for his name on the Internet.
Read MoreBy Charles Smythe
A growing consensus among U.S. military leadership and policy makers is that offensive strategies have an advantage over defensive strategies in cyberspace. However, this consensus is based on a series of misperceptions.
Read MoreBy Aaron Baum
This paper recommends that ASEAN countries create investment screening mechanisms close to OECD recommendations and that ASEAN itself encourages working- and Ministerial-level engagement on investment screening via a new Sectoral Ministerial Body that will track regional investment trends.
Read MoreBy Ryan Nabil
In the long term, as the gap between Russian and Chinese economic and military capabilities widens, the basis of Russia-China relations—trade, security cooperation, and stability in the post-Soviet space—are likely to weaken. Moscow’s management of the changing Russia-China relations will shape Russia’s future relations with China and the West.
Read MoreBy Tony Formica
Extremist groups have been on the rise for the past four years, and an uptick in extremist-related violence has followed in their wake.2 Prominent social media platforms have been tacitly implicated in these attacks, facilitating extremist recruitment, disseminating propaganda, and spreading disinformation.
Read MoreBy Karim Khalifeh and Karam Alhamad
One of Syria’s most vulnerable populations, its political detainees, now faces an impending humanitarian disaster amidst the global coronavirus outbreak. Few have voiced concern over Syria’s political prisoners, who may be left to die in Assad’s detention centers.
Read MoreBy Rana Mitter
As China emerges out of its transitional decades, where does the country stand now? Historian Rana Mitter reviews Frank Langfitt’s The Shanghai Free Taxi and Jonathan Chatwin’s Long Peace Street, two books giving colorful accounts of China’s shifting images of everyday life, view toward history, and relationship with the world.
Read MoreBy Matt Trevithick
Staffan de Mistura, an Italian-Swedish diplomat with a 40-year career in the United Nations, last served as the UN Special Envoy for Syria from 2014 to 2018. He sat down with Executive Editor Matt Trevithick of the Yale Journal of International Affairs shortly after President Trump’s announcement of a withdrawal of US forces from Syria in October 2019.
Read MoreBy Julian TszKin Chan and Weifeng Zhong
Can we predict governments’ policy moves through changes in propaganda messages? Julian Chan and Weifeng Zhong take a machine learning approach to predict China’s stance on key political issues.
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