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 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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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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By 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.
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By 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.
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By 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.
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By 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.
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By 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.
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By 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.
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By 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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By Joe Kyle
As the preeminent institution for maintaining European security, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) must address the growing sphere of Russian influence in non-NATO member states.
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By Erik Woodward
The low-lying atoll nations of the South Pacific Ocean are sinking. An interpretation of international law suggests that a deterritorialized state could be a legally permissible international entity.
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By Meg King & Jake Rosen
In a process rife with uncertainty and at times high with tension, the United States, Canada, and Mexico managed to reach terms for a broad new trade arrangement to replace NAFTA.
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