By Tom Smee, University of Chicago Arsenal Football Club, one of the world’s biggest sports teams, has retained the same jersey sponsor since 2018: “Visit Rwanda”. This unique sponsorship is symbolic of Rwanda’s decades-long push to rapidly grow the economy through tourism and other non-resource-intensive sectors, especially in
By Seth Poling, University of Chicago Introduction Cyberspace has become embedded in the fabric of large swaths of the globe. Individual actors, groups, and governments use cyberspace to store, process, and transmit billions of data points daily. Some of these data are more valuable than others. Consider a firm’s
By Sam Hagood, University of Chicago Over a thousand days have passed since Putin sent his first troops into Ukraine. The Ukrainian conflict has since claimed the lives of millions; its hunger for materiel and men draws in superpowers and neighbors alike. Allies have shipped ammunition, adversaries have cried foul
By Henry Jacobs, University of Chicago In 2017, then 36-year-old mayor of San Salvador, Nayib Bukele threw an apple at a member of his former party in a closed-door meeting. He was expelled from the party, only to create his own party, Nuevas Ideas, and win the 2019 El Salvador
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
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
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 be
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
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