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Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

“Sanctions Are Not A Substitute for Policy:” Dr. Anna Borshchevskaya Speaks on Russia-Ukraine

“Sanctions Are Not A Substitute for Policy:” Dr. Anna Borshchevskaya Speaks on Russia-Ukraine

Megan Michaels, Contributor April 5, 2022

“Vladimir Putin has catastrophically miscalculated the initial outcome of the war,” Dr. Anna Borshchevskaya stated when asked by Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of History Thomas Schwartz about...

OP-ED: Chinese FDI in Africa is Modern-Day Colonialism

OP-ED: Chinese FDI in Africa is Modern-Day Colonialism

Pipa Powers, Contributor September 13, 2021

African nations have long experienced exploitation and colonialism at the hands of powerful Western nations. Following the aftermath of Western colonialism, various countries attempted to rebuild the African...

What Biden's Syria Strike Means for the Rest of the Middle East

What Biden’s Syria Strike Means for the Rest of the Middle East

Indraneel Pai, Contributor April 8, 2021

Just 36 days into his presidency, Joe Biden launched airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias in Syria, marking the first major military operation of the new administration. The bombings killed 22 people. "I'm...

Biden’s Challenge of an Ascendant China

Biden’s Challenge of an Ascendant China

Mark Grujic, Contributor December 28, 2020

President-elect Biden will soon be navigating the greatest foreign policy challenge of our time, an increasingly powerful and assertive China. Although his approach to China will be a defining point of...

The Alexander Hamilton Society Grades Trump’s Grand Strategy

The Alexander Hamilton Society Grades Trump’s Grand Strategy

Rachael Osman November 13, 2019

On Oct. 30, the Alexander Hamilton Society hosted its first event of the year featuring Professor Peter Feaver and his take on President Donald Trump’s Grand Strategy. Every semester, the Alexander...

Recap: President Trump’s Foreign Policy Dealings

Recap: President Trump’s Foreign Policy Dealings

Gavin Yuan May 2, 2018

     In January of 2017, President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated under the foundation of what he heralded as an “American First” foreign policy. He promised to bring his business savviness as...

How We Are All Complicit in the Worst Humanitarian Crisis since WWII

How We Are All Complicit in the Worst Humanitarian Crisis since WWII

Sahil Soni December 9, 2017

  In February of this year, the United Nations declared famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen, claiming that the crisis endangering 20 million people is the largest humanitarian disaster...

The Tragic Reality of the Syria Deal

The Tragic Reality of the Syria Deal

Michael Zoorob September 14, 2013

In what began as an ad lib comment by John Kerry — that Assad surrender his chemical weapons to the international community, or else! — and culminated in a Russian-brokered deal to do just that, Syria...

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