The editorial board is pleased to present the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of the Chicago Journal of Foreign Policy. It can be found here ..read more

By Sam Fisher, University of Chicago It has been a little over a year since Germany’s Green Party killed all of their country’s nuclear energy, and keeping that promise may kill their electoral future too. Germany’s Green Party has been fighting for the end of nuclear energy since its founders were protestors obstructing nuclear plant construction sites in the 70s. After nearly five decades of activism and political pressure, and a nuclear disaster in Japan to help, they were finally able to pass a historic law to end all German nuclear energy by 2022.[1] But, by the time it came to close the ..read more

The editorial board is pleased to present the Winter 2024 issue of the Chicago Journal of Foreign Policy. This issue, our first in over a year, would not have been possible without the hard work of our staff at the University, and contributors both at the University and across the country. It can be found at this link. Articles Ensuring Gracefulness in Withdrawals: The dynamics of the Early 1970s American Withdrawal from South Korea By Juan Leal Mendoza Myanmar in the Dragon’s Shadow: Chinese Patronage and Ascent of the United Wa State Party By Jason Huang The Suez and Algeria Problem as One ..read more

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 too poor to sustain the very cost of empires. The longer an empire holds together, the poorer and more economically backward it tends to become.[1] - Jane Jacobs The escalating proxy war in Ukraine and mounting tensions with China necessitate a return to an American for ..read more

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 military theorist Giulio Douhet once postulated that by targeting civilians, a state could break enemy morale and force their enemy to sue for peace[1]. However, the strategic bombing efforts on both sides of World War Two proved the contrary, that bombing galvanized civilians against capitulation. However ..read more

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 create the conditions of terrorism. The project utilized statistics from the Global Terrorism Database and World Bank in the descriptive analysis, negative binomial regression, and comparative analysis. Specifically, this research uses the net ODA received (current US dolla ..read more

By Ignazio Marco Widodo, Stanford University This article appeared in CJFP's Winter 2024 publication. Just one month after Hamas shocked Israel with its violent attack on October 7th, around 1,200 Israelis[1] and 10,000 Palestinians have already been killed in the conflict[2]. For countless protestors, these numbers speak for themselves. The vast majority of the international community is steadfast in calling for Israel to allow lasting humanitarian ceasefires in the interest of minimizing civilian casualties[3]. In the United States, however, protestors carry with them an additional message ..read more

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 be nationalizing the Suez Canal, throwing the West into a “crisis” that would be theorized and analyzed by international policy specialists for decades to come. The Algerian War of Independence is typically dated to 1954, when the military branch of the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liber ..read more

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 reporting on bombings, such as motives rooted in the family or social life. Gendered language – within and outside scholarship – has dismissed female terrorists as acting for family or sexual honor, and largely placed them on the outsides of political action and motives ..read more

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 State Army (UWSA), with three more on the way.[1] In February 2020, the UWSA confirmed the presence of helicopters within its ranks, though claimed that they were for civilian purposes only.[2] Some brigades of the UWSA are armed with QBZ-95 assault rifles, the same modern rifle currently in service within ..read more