The Student Journal of International Affairs at The New School
We live in a fantastically complex age in which we must analyze and challenge the very foundations of modernity. Our ultimate authorities invest a majority of its funds in the military and do little to support the safety and life […]
While the United States (US) sanctions regime continues to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report this month on the human rights situation unfolding in Venezuela. What could have been […]
“Years later I discovered that the United States had been crossed thousands of times by frightened Black children traveling alone to their newly affluent parents in Northern cities, or back to grandmothers in Southern towns when the urban North reneged […]
I recently went to visit a friend in eastern Turkey. He lives in a smaller town of 76,000 people, which is surrounded by dry farmland. It was oppressively hot, and the heat radiating off of the pavement seemed to have […]
“Children of war,” a term that appears on numerous glossy magazine covers, an intriguing subject for after party discussions, while decorating the white washed walls of elite circles encompasses insurmountable tragedy and violence. War looms large in the South with […]
When our IFP group met during the Spring semester for Amharic class, I our coordinators described that the two months tend to be a three-part emotional roller coaster, starting with pure excitement and joy of being in a new place […]
As the IFP experience comes to a close, our small team of 10 has spent the last few weeks in Rio filming, photographing, and making as many connections as possible. While each of us is engaged in individual research and […]
Your flip flop, little does it know, could have a second life as an animal sculpture, after it’s discarded and deemed to be trash. That is Davis Ndungu’s calling. Ndungu is the founder of Recycled Flip Flops Studio (RFFS), a […]
CW: This article contains accounts of human trafficking, sexual assault, and violence against women and children. On the pristine beaches of Trinidad and Tobago, you can find tourists, fishermen, and camps. Yet, surrounded by the cascading leaves of coconut trees, […]
More than a third of UN member states continue to criminalize homosexuality, including seven nations where consensual gay sex is punishable by death. In February 2019, the Trump administration vowed to end this discrimination globally. The media responded with […]
(The photos that appear in this piece were taken by the author during a trip to Havana’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. The artworks were made by Cuban painters in the last century.) When University of Havana sociologist Magela Romero […]
