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Iranian Queers and Laws: Fighting for Freedom of Expression
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president, once declared to the world: “in Iran, we don’t have homosexuals. In Iran we don’t have this phenomenon. I don’t know who has told you we have it.” At the time, Ahmadinejad’s remarks at Columbia University were met with...
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Can a Post-Crisis Country Survive in the Time of Ebola? Issues Arising with Liberia’s Post-war Recovery
Overview We suspect that the first case of the current outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) began with the illness of a two-year old child who died at the end of December 2013. This occurred in Guéckédou prefecture, Guinea, located...
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The Personal and the Political: Gender in International Relations
As we await the December release of our Fall 2014/Winter 2015 issue, The Personal and the Political: Gender in International Relations, watch out for gender-related content coming out online! … If recent century-long trends in social history can be defined by the slow...
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Beijing’s Ménluó Doctrine: If it was good for America, should it be good for China?
Beijing has an incremental foreign policy in the South China Sea, which appears to resonate with America’s Monroe Doctrine. When the increasingly assertive new nation declared that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to the great colonial powers of...
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Ebola: The Teaching and Learning Moment
Winston Churchill famously said, “never let a good crisis go to waste”. The Ebola crisis in West Africa is not a good crisis. It is a terrible catastrophe. Yet there is a lesson in Churchill’s words that must not...
By Barry Bloom
Current Feature: Gender & International Relations
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Personal Violence, Public Matter: Evolving Standards in Gender-Based Asylum Law
In August 2014, the US Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), the highest immigration tribunal in the country, conceded that women fleeing domestic violence could meet the refugee definition and...
Perspectives
A Vexing Issue Revisited: Confronting Africa’s Development Challenges
Over the past decade, African countries have experienced varying economic and political fortunes. Several economies, such as the ones of Ghana, Ethiopia, Rwanda and...
Can a Post-Crisis Country Survive in the Time of Ebola? Issues Arising with Liberia’s Post-war Recovery
Overview We suspect that the first case of the current outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) began with the illness of a two-year old...
Latin America: A Backlash in Human Rights?
As a source of political upheaval, Latin America has to a large extent abandoned international news headlines. Since the two-decade-long democratization process unleashed from 1978 to 2000, countries...
Beijing’s Ménluó Doctrine: If it was good for America, should it be good for China?
Beijing has an incremental foreign policy in the South China Sea, which appears to resonate with America’s Monroe Doctrine. When the increasingly assertive new...
Interviews
World in Review
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Putin a Stranglehold: The Changing Strategies of a Resurgent Russia
It has been a good year for Russian President Vladimir Putin. His country annexed...
Follow the Money: The Rise of Economics in Contemporary Geopolitics
When the Harvard International Review was founded, the world of finance was far from...
East of Mumbai: Naxalism and the Future of India
On a starry, clear night in Mumbai, one can venture out to Marine Drive,...
Western Theory, Global World: Western Bias in International Theory
Scholars of international relations often operate under the assumption that their project is to...