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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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 Joseph Gayeski
How his history of Franco-Russian relations begs questions that he himself struggled to answer.
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By Andrew Rennemo
Regulatory diplomacy that replaces political provocation with cooperation on technical issues, such as securities fraud, antitrust, and illicit trade, could be a first step toward restoring a measure of stability in the U.S.-China relationship.
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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 Shiman
Current U.S. regulations aiming to counter money laundering and terror financing likely impact financing for the poor more than criminals. Cost-benefit analyses would make this clear and provide a path forward.
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By Maria Santarelli
The United States should mitigate the suffering of Venezuelans within its own borders by granting Temporary Protected Status.
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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 Dr. Rafael Leal-Arcas
There is a paradigm shift in global environmental governance. Dr. Rafael Leal-Arcas explains how investment in smartgrids is a way to democratize energy.
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By Nile Gardiner
China’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a wake-up call for Europe. The Chinese Communist Party’s less-than-transparent handling of the outbreak of the virus, and its subsequent efforts to pass blame to the West, have hardened anti-China sentiment in many European capitals.
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By Sophie Kaldor
On June 15, 2020, Maria Ressa, one of the Philippines’ most prominent journalists, was found guilty of “cyber libel.” Human rights groups have condemned this verdict as a politically motivated prosecution by the Duterte government. On March 3, 2020, Ressa sat down with Sophie Kaldor from the Yale Journal of International Affairs for an interview, in which they discussed the links between social media and rising authoritarianism in the Philippines, global terrorism, and disinformation.
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By Krista Mangiardi
From 2017-2019, I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Gansu, China. Having been on the ground, I believe that whether the closure is due to China’s development or to escalating U.S.-China tensions, the program should continue.
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