By looking to Argentina, the U.S. could improve its asylum system and greatly reduce its costs, argues Liam Comer-Weaver.
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Annie Crabill reviews Stephen Macekura’s 2020 book The Mismeasure of Progress, a critical history of the growth paradigm in economics.
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Andrew Doris explains why analogies to peacetime garrisons understate the costs of the Afghanistan intervention.
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Sheridan Gunderson explains the origins of the Israeli West Bank barrier and the art the adorns it.
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Brianda Romero Castelán reviews Joanne Meyerowitz’s A War on Global Poverty, a timely addition to the literature on gender and development.
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Lebanon’s system of impunity started with the 1991 General Amnesty. Ryan Saadeh explains how.
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What do media organizations owe war reporters, given the psychiatric risks they take?
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Hundreds of thousands of American firearms are smuggled into Mexico each year. Mexican diplomat María Rodríguez-Domínguez explains how the two countries can confront the illicit trade.
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By Hacer Berra Akcan
What are mazar festivals, and why do they matter to Uyghur identity? Hacer Berra Akcan explains why they deserve protection.
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By Annie Crabill
Book Review of China’s Foreign Policy Since 1978: Return to Power, by Nicholas Khoo (2020, Edward Elgar)
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By Ehi Agbashi, Nivana Tesfayohannes, Temiloluwa Adeyemi, and Osasenaga Aghayere
Why was #EndSARS a powerful moment in Nigerian history? And what comes next?
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By Zhenyu Zhang
Zhenyu Zhang, a research assistant at Cornell University, explores how Beijing employs diversionary nationalism as a tactic to distract from possible instability.
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By Samir Bhatnagar
Samir Bhatnagar argues that concerted efforts from the state are required to expand farmers’ access to institutional credit in India.
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By Noah Yosif
Why has climate activism not yet led to significant divestment in fossil fuels from banks?
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By Hyppolite Ntigurirwa
Hyppolite Ntigurirwa, a Yale University 2020 World Fellow, uses ethnographic data to demonstrate how words can contribute to post-genocide reconciliation in Rwanda.
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By Merve Hannah O’Keefe
Merve Hannah O’Keefe, a graduate student at Monash University, explains how Me Too reporting has affected journalists covering sexual violence, survivors, and perpetrators.
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By Nellie Petlick
Yale Jackson graduate student Nellie Petlick explores how the United States could reinvent its public diplomacy strategy to directly address topics of race and racism abroad.
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By Anoush Baghdassarian and Sherin Zadah
The authors shed light on crimes committed against the predominantly Kurdish community in Afrin, Syria.
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By Laura Edwards
Laura Edwards of the University of Pennsylvania draws attention to the rise in investment treaty claims involving protestors, and developments to codify the right to protest in international human rights law.
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