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Ambitions Are Not Opportunities: South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s Failed North Korea Policy
Ambitions Are Not Opportunities: South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s Failed North Korea Policy

What went wrong with President Moon’s ambitious policy of engagement? Jackson’s own Eunjung Irene Oh explains.

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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsJanuary 14, 2022Fall 2021, Asia
Afghanistan Was Not Korea: Withdrawal Critics Understate the Costs of War
Afghanistan Was Not Korea: Withdrawal Critics Understate the Costs of War

Andrew Doris explains why analogies to peacetime garrisons understate the costs of the Afghanistan intervention.

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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsJanuary 13, 2022Fall 2021, Middle East
The Ayotzinapa Case at Seven Years: A Political and Moral Test for Mexican President López Obrador
The Ayotzinapa Case at Seven Years: A Political and Moral Test for Mexican President López Obrador

López Obrador’s credibility and legacy will be determined by his response to the Ayotzinapa case, seven years ago. Olivia Mozdzierz explains why.

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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsJanuary 12, 2022Fall 2021, North America
Editors' Note: The Fall 2021 Edition

We’re pleased to publish our latest edition. Read more.

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Yale Journal of International AffairsJanuary 12, 2022Fall 2021
On Justice Denied: Interrogating Amnesty and Amnesia in Post-conflict Lebanon
On Justice Denied: Interrogating Amnesty and Amnesia in Post-conflict Lebanon

Lebanon’s system of impunity started with the 1991 General Amnesty. Ryan Saadeh explains how.

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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsNovember 23, 2021Middle East
Investigating the Role of Emotion in Contemporary Wartime Journalism
Investigating the Role of Emotion in Contemporary Wartime Journalism

What do media organizations owe war reporters, given the psychiatric risks they take?

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Yale Journal of International AffairsNovember 4, 2021
A Battle for ‘Barren Land’: Rethinking Chinese Interests in the Sino-Indian Border Dispute
ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsAugust 25, 2021Asia
It Takes Two: How Immediate Bilateral Action Will Help Curb Illicit Arms Trafficking from the U.S. to Mexico
It Takes Two: How Immediate Bilateral Action Will Help Curb Illicit Arms Trafficking from the U.S. to Mexico

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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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsAugust 23, 2021North America
A Song at the Tomb: Preserving Music in Mazar Festivals
A Song at the Tomb: Preserving Music in Mazar Festivals

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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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsJuly 9, 2021Asia
Book Review: China’s Foreign Policy Since 1978
Book Review: China’s Foreign Policy Since 1978

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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Book ReviewYale Journal of International AffairsJune 30, 2021Asia
#EndSARS 2020: The Social Movement that Rebirth Activism in Nigeria
#EndSARS 2020: The Social Movement that Rebirth Activism in Nigeria

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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Op-EdYale Journal of International AffairsMay 15, 2021Africa
How Beijing Uses Diversionary Nationalism to Manage Social Movements
How Beijing Uses Diversionary Nationalism to Manage Social Movements

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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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsMay 15, 2021Asia
Economics of Indian Farmers’ Movement: A Study of Agrarian Distress and a Vicious Debt Cycle
Economics of Indian Farmers’ Movement: A Study of Agrarian Distress and a Vicious Debt Cycle

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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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsMay 15, 2021Asia
Banking up The Wrong Tree: Have the Climate Protests Against Financial Institutions Missed their Mark?
Banking up The Wrong Tree: Have the Climate Protests Against Financial Institutions Missed their Mark?

By Noah Yosif

Why has climate activism not yet led to significant divestment in fossil fuels from banks?

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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsMay 15, 2021
The Dilemma of Affirmative Rehumanization: Words Are Just the Beginning
The Dilemma of Affirmative Rehumanization: Words Are Just the Beginning

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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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsMay 15, 2021Africa
The Impact of the Me Too Movement's Journalism
The Impact of the Me Too Movement's Journalism

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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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsMay 15, 2021
Global Black Lives Matter: Addressing America’s Legacy of Racism through a New Public Diplomacy
Global Black Lives Matter: Addressing America’s Legacy of Racism through a New Public Diplomacy

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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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsMay 15, 2021North America
Voices from Afrin: First-hand Accounts of Turkish Crimes Against the Kurds and Policy Proposals From Those Affected
Voices from Afrin: First-hand Accounts of Turkish Crimes Against the Kurds and Policy Proposals From Those Affected

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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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsMay 15, 2021Middle East
Marching for Justice: Conflicting Perspectives of Peaceful Assemblies in International Investment Law and International Human Rights Law
Marching for Justice: Conflicting Perspectives of Peaceful Assemblies in International Investment Law and International Human Rights Law

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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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsMay 15, 2021
A Step Forward for Palermo’s Trafficking Protocol, This Time Integrating Frontier Technology
A Step Forward for Palermo’s Trafficking Protocol, This Time Integrating Frontier Technology

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.

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ArticleYale Journal of International AffairsMarch 26, 2021Comment
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