When President Trump announced that the United States was suspending the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, reactions to the decision were strong. The news made headlines and generated plenty of thoughts about the future of nuclear weapons as well as the […]
What President Maduro’s Overnight Guaido Opposition means for Venezuela and International Politics There is new self-proclaimed leadership in Venezuela, already making efforts to reinstate democratic order and bring back global resources through back-channel diplomatic relations with countries that are sanctioning […]
In Professor Glenna Gordon’s International Photojournalism course, students learn to engage with the language of visuals and to think critically about photographs and representations. After looking at both traditional photojournalism methods and new forms of image making, students can choose […]
Note: This piece contains a first-person account of human trafficking and sexual violence. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2018 This is an interview of Abraham David, one of several I conducted during my travels in the Amhara region to complete my research […]
Josh Bombart completed a documentary on political song in South America as his thesis project at the International Affairs Program at The New School. Below, read his description of his project and view the film. South America has seen much […]
Finding the Lost Chinese Diaspora in Havana Cheongsam, in Cantonese, is a type of long dress that comes to mind when I tell you that Chinese women wear this! It’s very traditional, very formal, and in the past was reserved […]
This past summer was beyond exciting, as I had the opportunity to work as an intern with the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations. From June until August, I worked with minister-counsellors responsible for disarmament and […]
Kait’s On the Ground series aims to showcase the personal consequences of current conflicts and political hot-topics. In a world of frenzied media focused on escalating tensions and violence between state and non-state actors, the human voice of average citizens […]
The Universal State and the Universal Threat The rise of the Islamic State has united the various actors in the Middle East and North Africa that are otherwise fighting tooth and nail against each other throughout the scorched battlefields of […]
The world is currently facing a new critical security issue represented in the rise of the terrorist organization “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (ISIS). In this article I investigate the politicized approach of defining “terrorism,” and I argue that […]
As a journalist and student of international affairs, I find it’s hard to write about Israel-Palestine without writing about the plight of the Palestinians. As a tourist visiting my wife’s family in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, I did not experience […]
