The McGill International Review - Canada's premier undergraduate journal of international affairs

Ethnic clashes in Mali are tenser than ever, bringing about dozens of deaths in recent months – but what forces can truly be blamed for the violence?
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If we were to look into the issues that Canadian voters, particularly Indigenous voters, experience when accessing the right to vote, what could it tell us about our democratic values and sociocultural beliefs? The very moment we see…
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The political and cultural differences between rural and urban areas are perennial, yet this divide has been particularly charged since Trump. Is the fascination fundamentally political, cultural, or something else entirely?
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The democratic composition of Taiwan is a cause of alarm for the CPC since the CPC seeks to repel any democratic influence from its bounds. Yet the proximity between China and Taiwan makes this a daunting task for the CPC. By choosing to…
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The arrests at Morice River were a symptom of the inability of the provincial government to respect First Nations governance and authority. Unist’ot’en people may have broken BC law when they defied the injunction, but RCMP officers broke…
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In about two months, on March 29th of this year, the United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union. This day has been coined “Brexit Day,” and stands as the culminating point of the complex processes of negotiation and contentious…
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The inability of the EU to make decisions concerning distribution, asylum procedures, and courses of action has resulted in repercussions for both the countries and the refugees themselves, thousands of whom continue to suffer in…
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The Uyghur people, a predominantly Muslim, ethnic minority who are native to China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, are suffering under an oppressive regime in which cultural and religious identity is punished. There have …
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With the rise of right-wing populism in the West, the word "immigration" is often used with a heavily negative connotation. Many politicians in North America or Europe, such as Donald Trump or Marine Le Pen, like to generalize immigrants as…
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An analysis of the origins of the Afghan insurgency, the current situation, the external influences in the war and the domestic political and security situation to examine what's next in the never ending Afghan conflict.
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