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Middle East
2012, Vol. 5 No. 2
The Awakening: How Revolutionaries, Barack Obama, and Ordinary Muslims are Remaking the Middle East
By Peter Bergen
Published by Cornell International Affairs Review
When we interviewed him in 1997, he said a number of things to us, which I think represent kind of an alternative vision of the Middle East that most Muslims have projected. And this vision you know during the course of this interview, which was... Read Article »
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Foreign Policy
2012, Vol. 5 No. 2
The War Lovers (Again): What the Foreign Policy Advisers of Presidential Candidates May Tell Us About Future U.S. Foreign Policy
By Elizabeth Sanders
Published by Cornell International Affairs Review
Evan Thomas's recent book, The War Lovers, chronicles the "monumental turning point" of the U.S. declaration of war against Spain in 1898, and the small circle of men who pressed for war, and for an American empire. The central figures, for Thomas... Read Article »
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Arms Control
2012, Vol. 5 No. 2
Banning Evil: Cluster Munitions and the Successful Formation of a Global Prohibition Regime
By Denise Garcia
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The rise and entry into force of the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) that prohibits cluster bombs constitutes a global prohibition regime. I argue that this new prohibition regime and the arising new international norm set by the CCM,... Read Article »
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Human Rights
2012, Vol. 5 No. 2
The Consequences of Rape During Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
By Elizabeth Dettke
Published by Cornell International Affairs Review
"I rape because of the need. After that I feel like a man." These are the words of a rebel soldier who ruthlessly roams the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in search of his next victims. Rape has been used in the past during warfare... Read Article »
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2012, Vol. 5 No. 2
Deconstructing the Camarena Affair and the Militarized United States-Mexico Border
By Benjamin Schenk
Published by Cornell International Affairs Review
Recently, the state of the United States-Mexico border has assumed primary importance in American domestic politics. And with that, the border has been conflated with notions of security. This paper will investigate the root causes of the border... Read Article »
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Political Economy
2012, Vol. 5 No. 2
Hot Cocoa: Agricultural Economics and the Ivorian Civil Wars
By John Biberman
Published by Cornell International Affairs Review
For roughly a decade, Côte d'Ivoire has been bitterly divided by a civil war between its dry Muslim north and its fertile Christian south. Many commentators have attempted to ascribe cultural or social origins to this war, casting it as an... Read Article »
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Lgbt Rights
2012, Vol. 5 No. 2
Korean LGBT: Trial, Error, and Success
By Jonathan Kim
Published by Cornell International Affairs Review
South Korea does not have a strong and visible lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender social movement in the public, despite active issue advocacy organizations, political representation from the Democratic Labour Party, and popular television shows... Read Article »
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