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

After decades of nearly unquestioning support for the Israeli state, a lethargic linchpin of U.S. foreign policy that effectively ceded debate to security hawks and neoconservatives, the Democratic Party is currently experiencing somewhat…
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Kidnapping foreign citizens in exchange for ransom money has become one of the key methods of financing and fuelling terrorism around the world. The debate surrounding this issue is complex due to its unique moral dimension, since countries…
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On the gray Parisian morning of March 3rd, Mrs. Dupont came down for breakfast to discover that there was no newspaper to accompany it. This was because the book branch of the Confédération générale du travail (CGT) union was on strike…
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The European Union Membership Referendum looms ever closer for the United Kingdom and unsurprisingly, the rhetoric has become increasingly desperate. Boris Johnson, the Leave campaign’s most active, fanatical and often nonsensical advocate,…
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Two states were born at the stroke of midnight on August 14th 1947 from the twilight of the British Raj in the South-Asian subcontinent. One nation evolved into the world’s largest parliamentary democracy. The other nation degenerated into…
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Ahh Victoria Day, a long weekend of sun, barbeques and the celebration of colonial oppression; a perfect combination for a wonderful sunny weekend! In Canada, today we celebrate Victoria Day (but not in Quebec, where it's Journee des…
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97 years ago this week, on May 15th at roughly 11 AM, virtually all workers in the city of Winnipeg were on strike. 30,000 people (including firefighters) walked off the job in a massive showing of class and labor solidarity. It was the…
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The NDP party, while historically significant to Canadian politics, has previously had to deal with the challenge of relating to many middle class and urban citizens, appearing as both rational and organized party, unlike other far left…
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Dating back to the Cold War era, US national security objectives have played a strong part in deciding US state action in Latin American countries – a dynamic that was shifted instead of turned around as the threat of communism waned…
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Iran is not a country known for having free and liberal censorship laws and so it is a shock to many that the new hit series, Shahrzad, has somehow slipped through the net. The most expensive production to date, Shahrzad is a love story…
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