By Nikias Stefanakis
The short answer is “no”—our standards for declaring corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives a success are not good enough. Collectively, international development supporters seem content to draw positive conclusions about CSR initiatives before there has been enough evidence of their long-term success.
Read MoreBy Stephanie L. Schmidt
Four years after independence, South Sudan is still struggling to establish a new political system. This article lays out a strategy for developing interventions to achieve substantive rule of law goals by analyzing the context, national capacities, and needs and desires of the population.
Read MoreBy Enni Kallio
“A New Generation: Life in Rwanda Twenty Years after the Genocide” by Enni Kallio was the winner of YJIA’s 2015 Photo Essay Contest.
Read MoreUnderlying many of ASEAN’s initiatives is an emphasis on “ASEAN centrality”—the notion of ASEAN’s leading role in the regional architecture—a principle that has framed the way ASEAN has approached its external relations, in particular with the major powers, to ensure that its interests are protected and the regional stability preserved. Notwithstanding ASEAN’s best efforts, such an approach has not always resulted in success.
Read MoreAn interview with Ambassador Johnnie Carson, Former Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs (2009-2013) on the 2015 Nigerian Presidential Elections.
Read MoreBy Eliot Pence
No one truly knows what we are doing in development. We have spent billions of dollars and do not have much to show for it. Critics often point out that China has contributed more than any other country in reducing global poverty, despite having received nearly no development assistance.
Read MoreAn Interview with Patrick Murck, Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation
Murck discusses electronic payment systems, bitcoin, the Bitcoin Foundation, and other forms of cryptocurrency.
Read MoreBy Anders Fridén
Sweden should join NATO as soon as possible in order to provide a credible territorial defense, balance the security interests of Sweden and other regional actors, enhance the influence of the country within the European security context, and reap the benefits of coordinated defense and interoperability that participation in NATO would provide.
Read MoreBy Jennifer J. Carroll
While we should acknowledge the experience and knowledge of regional experts, even those distracted by right-wing actors, no one has more authority to characterize what Ukrainian activists are up to than those activists themselves, and they are telling a different story. We should listen.
Read MoreBy Mela Louise Norman
Michèle Flournoy is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Ms. Flournoy also served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2009 to 2012.
Read MoreBy Lauren Eades
Since December 2006 when then-president Felipe Calderón declared war on the cartels, over 100,000 Mexicans have been murdered, at least 30,000 have disappeared, and kidnappings have skyrocketed—with 132,000 kidnappings taking place in 2013 alone.
Read MoreAn Interview with Graeme Reid, LGBT Program Director at Human Rights Watch
Yale African Studies MA Candidate Alexander Killen interviews Reid about LGBT rights on the international stage.
Read MoreBy Peter Oesterling
As anthropogenic climate change alters the world’s ecosystems, one effect has been glacial recession across the Andes, the Himalayas, the Alps, and the Rocky Mountains.
Read MoreBy Yale Journal of International Affairs
An Interview with Eric Rubin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, European and Eurasian Affairs
Read MoreBy Narayan Kaudinya
Baltistan is a mountainous region straddling the Northern India–Pakistan border, adjacent to the disputed territory of Kashmir. During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the Ladakhi Scouts, an infantry regiment of the Indian army specialized in mountain warfare, took control of several villages of the Baltistan region in Pakistan. Since then, a part of Baltistan remains under Indian control.
Read MoreBy Sugato Mukherjee
Kawah Ijen is one of the many volcanoes that dominate the landscape of East Java in the Indonesian archipelago. But Ijen is markedly different from the others—it is home to the largest acidic crater lake on Earth. The beautiful lake is the site of rich elemental sulfur, which 350-400 miners quarry manually each year.
Read MoreBy Dr. Michael D. Gambone and John J. McGarry
Despite their well-documented and unsavory reputation, private military security companies (PMSCs) remain critical to U.S. foreign policy. Hard-won reform has emerged concurrently with greater U.S. dependence on private military security contractors.
Read MoreBy Aiden Warren and Alexander Dirksen
This article will argue that while the Obama administration promised considerable change in the areas of transparency, intelligence gathering, and national security, it has differed very little from the Bush administration.
Read MoreBy Joy Gordon
For many years, the Security Council of the United Nations was seen as paralyzed and ineffectual. But in the aftermath of the Cold War, the Council became much more active, and in some cases, was accused of overreaching. Some have argued that this puts the Council’s legitimacy into question. A series of recent European court rulings have provided support for this view, in that they find that some of the Security Council’s enforcement actions are inconsistent with international law.
Read MoreBy Pia Rebello Britto, PhD and Briance Mascarenhas, PhD
Globalization presents diverse potential opportunities for expansion and collaboration. There is a need for international transformative leaders who are well-grounded in their disciplines, who have a broader vision that transcends countries and cultures, and who have a desire and ability to bring about positive change.
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