Volume 16, Issue 1: Spring 2021

Cover and Table of Contents (PDF)

Global Black Lives Matter: Addressing America’s Legacy of Racism Through a New Public Diplomacy (PDF)

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.

The Impact of the Me Too Movement’s Journalism (PDF)

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.

Economics of the Indian Farmers’ Movement: A Study of Agrarian Distress and a Vicious Debt Cycle (PDF)

By Samir Bhatnagar

Samir Bhatnagar argues that concerted efforts from the state are required to expand farmers’ access to institutional credit in India.

Op-Ed: #EndSARS 2020: The Social Movement that is Rebirthing Activism in Nigeria (PDF)

By Ehi Agbashi, Nivana Tesfayohannes, Temiloluwa Adeyemi, and Osasenaga Aghayere

Why was #EndSARS a powerful moment in Nigerian history? And what comes next?

Marching for Justice: Conflicting Perspectives of Peaceful Assemblies in International Investment Law and International Human Rights Law (PDF)

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.

How Beijing Uses Diversionary Nationalism to Manage Social Movements (PDF)

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.

Banking up the Wrong Tree: Have the Climate Protests Against Financial Institutions Missed their Mark? (PDF)

By Noah Yosif

Noah Yosif, a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that climate activists should target central banks, rather than private individual banks.

The Dilemma of Affirmative Rehumanization: Words are Just the Beginning (PDF)

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.

Voices from Afrin: First-hand Accounts of Turkish Crimes Against the Kurds and Policy Proposals from those Affected (PDF)

By Anoush Baghdassarian and Sherin Zadah

Anoush Baghdassarian, a Juris Doctor candidate at Harvard Law School, and Sherin Zadah, an upcoming graduate student at Columbia University, shed light on crimes committed against the predominately Kurdish community in Afrin, Syria.

Op-Ed: Revisiting Kennan’s Questions (PDF)

By Joseph Gayeski

Joseph Gayeski, Yale Jackson graduate student, explores what contemporary diplomats can learn form the Cold War strategist George F. Kennan.

A Step Forward for Palermo’s Trafficking Protocol, This Time Integrating Frontier Technology (PDF)

By Sophie Zinser and Dr. Hannah Thinyane

Sophie Zinser, a Consultant at Diginex Solutions, and Hannah Thinyane, a Principal Research Fellow at United Nations University Institute in Macau, employ frontier technology to tackle human trafficking.