By Michael F. Duggan, Ph.D. This article appeared in CJFP's Winter 2024 publication. Introduction Successful imperialism wins wealth. Yet, historically, successful empires such as Persia, Rome, Byzantium, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, have not remained rich. Indeed, it seems to be the fate of empires to become
By Andrew Gary, University of North Carolina This article appeared in CJFP's Winter 2024 publication. Background Several years prior to the Second World War it had been theorized that through the destruction of civilian cities, air power would be able to win a war on its own. Italian
By Hannah Pennington This article appeared in CJFP's Winter 2024 publication. Abstract This research examines how Official Development Assistance (ODA) increases Al- Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) terrorism in Yemen from 2010 to 2020. This project adds to the discourse about how foreign aid and development assistance
By Isa Rosario-Blake, University of Chicago This article appeared in CJFP's Winter 2024 publication. North Africa was changing rapidly in the year 1956. In March, both Morocco and Tunisia were granted independence from France. In July, the President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that he would
By Lucy Tobier, Swarthmore College This article appeared in CJFP's Winter 2024 publication. Abstract Female terrorist and suicide bomber participation has been on the rise since the 1980s, increasing rapidly since the early 2000s. Previous media coverage and scholarly work have largely focused on individual-level factors when
By Jason Huang, Northwestern University This article appeared in CJFP's Winter 2024 publication. In 2013, a report byJane’s Information Group[1] claimed that China had delivered two Mil Mi-17 ‘Hip’ military helicopters armed with TY-90 (Tianyan-90) air-to-air missiles to the United Wa
By Juan Leal Mendoza, University of Chicago[1] This article appeared in CJFP's Winter 2024 publication. Abstract The Nixon administration’s partial withdrawal from South Korea in 1971 was unprecedented for American peacetime foreign policy in East Asia. It can be partially attributed to Nixon’s ambition to
By Tayson Reese, University of Chicago Given the global proliferation of and increasing reliance on uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs) in emerging global counterterrorism efforts over the 21st century, a contentious debate has emerged among scholars of international relations on the fundamental efficacy of UAVs as tools of counterterrorism. This discourse
By Jack McGlinn, University of Chicago “War is the continuation of politics by other means” - Carl von Clausewitz, On War “The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War The second space race is on. As scientific understanding grows and the potential discovery of
By Francisco Gutierrez, University of Chicago The 2020s can unfortunately be considered a time of immense strife: the University of Chicago’s own Doomsday clock has inched us closer and closer to midnight, or global catastrophe. As of this year, we stand only 90 seconds from midnight. This is due
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By Tayson Reese, University of Chicago Introduction On September 7, 2013, at Nazarbayev University In Kazakhstan, Xi Xinping, the President of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CCP), and essentially the preeminent leader of modern China, announced the Chinese government’s
By Alejandra Sarmiento, University of Chicago In the ever-shifting landscape of global geopolitics, the United States and China find themselves at the forefront of a complex and multifaceted relationship. Recent tensions between these two economic powerhouses have captured the world's attention, with implications reaching far beyond their