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

In early April, President Trump stated that the US should withdraw its military forces from Syria. Secretary of Defense Mattis seems to have persuaded Trump to postpone this plan for at least six months, citing strategic necessity, with…
Read More...

Introduction Secretary of Defence John Bolton has long had a bad impression of international law. He has that argued that allowing international legal institutions a substantial degree of control over the policy of a sovereign state…
Read More...

The Chinese question is nothing new in Indonesia. Two decades after the post-Suharto reforms, Chinese-Indonesians enjoy greater political freedom and no longer face the coercive assimilation and legislative discrimination they endured…
Read More...

The dominant narrative of the 2016 U.S presidential elections was that of a revolt against “the establishment”, an ill-defined but popular term that conjures images of out-of-touch political elites, backroom deals shrouded in cigar smoke,…
Read More...

A doctored image of Parkland shooting survivor and activist Emma Gonzalez ripping the US constitution went viral recently, particularly with ultra-conservative social media users that sought to discredit the young activist. A…
Read More...

In March, journalists from UK newspapers The Guardian and The Observer released an in-depth news story about an obscure data-analytics firm called Cambridge Analytica. In an enormous information leak, Cambridge Analytica harvested the…
Read More...

Today, Japan is by all metrics a first world country: It is an advanced democracy with the world’s fourth largest economy, its citizens enjoy the world’s highest life expectancy, and it leads the world in industries such as steel,…
Read More...

Of the variety of behavioral and developmental disorders that affect students today, one of the most prominent is Auditory Processing Disorder (APD). Often confused with, or misdiagnosed as, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention…
Read More...

In early March, Sergei and Julia Skripal were found unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury. What looked to passers by like a pair nodding off after a night out were eventually recognized by a passing doctor and nurse to be victims of…
Read More...