By Faizah Zakaria
After the advent of Sukarno’s “Guided Democracy” in Indonesia more than fifty years ago, renowned scholar of Indonesian politics Herbert Feith asked why democracy in Indonesia failed.
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An Interview with Albie Sachs, Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Yale Sociology PHD student Denise Lim interviews Sachs on consociationalism, the process of constitution making, the formation of the Constitutional Court, “Sufficient Consensus,” and bringing South Africa together.
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By Arthur de Liedekerke
Poland’s recent announcement that it would move thousands of troops from the country’s western border to its eastern one—a historic realignment—highlights the consternation that the Ukrainian crisis has sparked among countries in the region.
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By Isaac S. Medina
For centuries, the great civilizations of India and China have been separated by the natural barrier of the Himalayas, largely keeping the two civilizations from encroaching on one another’s sphere of influence.
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Interview by Tara Chandra
With over 40 feature film credits to her name, Nandita Das is an award-winning Indian film actor and director who has leveraged her international profile to campaign on social issues concerning women, children, and marginalized communities.
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By Jack Miller
Since the late 1990s, a comprehensive discussion relating to changes in the nature of warfare and the military development of conventional state actors has been progressing in U.S. policy circles.
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By Yale Journal of International Affairs
An Interview with Raila Odinga, Former Prime Minister of Kenya
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By Chris Lockyear
As hundreds of thousands of people in South Sudan struggle to survive the brutal conflict there, South Sudan’s labor minister recently dealt a potentially devastating blow: he ordered all international workers to leave the country.
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By Kelly Hunte
Accounting systems must be developed in both donor and recipient countries which would accurately capture non-financial aid flows in order to analyze the true impact and ensure that the aid flows are effectively linked to the national priorities of the recipient country.
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By Benjamin Locks
Since 2007, many Mexicans and international observers have blamed drug traffickers from Mexican cartels—and former President Felipe Calderón’s heavy-handed response—for the reign of violence that has left more than 60,000 people dead through 2012, according to Human Rights Watch.
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By David Babayan
While the Southern Caucasus appears distant from China both politically and geographically, Beijing has had position there. If the current trend continues, China could become one of the most influential players in Caucasian geopolitics.
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By Todd Robinson, Paul F. Diehl, and Tyler Pack
The apparent use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime in Syria and the potential development of nuclear weapons by Iran have brought “red lines” to the forefront of public discourse and policy-making. In the former, U.S. President Obama threatened retaliatory measures were Syria ever to use chemical weapons against rebels in its civil war.
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By Moctar Aboubacar
The field of international development cooperation is being increasingly influenced by “emerging donors,” countries like South Korea which are capitalizing on their own development history to engage developing countries with innovative policy experiences.
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By Probal DasGupta
Around 2005, South Asia was a patchwork of two dictatorships, two monarchies, and three democracies—including one engaged in a civil war.
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Yale Journal of International Affairs interviews UN Special Adviser Adama Dieng. Dieng served as Registrar for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as well as the Supreme Court of Senegal and was Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists.
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By Kari Lipschutz
This paper uses the Nigerian case to illustrate the serious effect this type of institutional crisis can have on the ability to mitigate the negative externalities of resource development.
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By Andrew Taffer
Since the end of World War II, China has been involved in more territorial disputes than any other state. The vast majority of them, 17 out of 23 according to M. Taylor Fravel, have been settled by bilateral agreements, “usually by compromising over the sovereignty of contested land.”
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By Nathan Hopson
Perhaps this is unfair—there are, of course, many topics “missing,” because no journal or news source can cover everything—and it certainly reflects my own biases. But my question remains: where is Japan?
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Yale Journal of International Affairs interviews Xingzui Wang, Vice President of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation.
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Yale Journal of International Affairs interviews Luis Moreno-Ocampo, an Argentine lawyer and the former first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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