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Skyler Bohnert

Skyler is a U1 student pursuing a degree in Political Science and History. His main areas of interest include US foreign policy, international organizations, and countries that are underappreciated in the media.

The New Nation: Bougainville’s Struggle for Independence

Skyler Bohnert Mar 25, 2022

In 2027, the world will see the first newly independent country since South Sudan in 2011. Bougainville, an autonomous province in Papua New Guinea (PNG), voted almost unanimously for independence in a 2019 referendum, and their government…
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Bezos in Space: The Underwhelming Reality of Space Tourism

Skyler Bohnert Mar 9, 2022

The average human is nowhere near able to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to reach suborbit — something Musk acknowledged when he briefly predicted a loan system that sounds a little too much like indentured servitude — and any…
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Between Two Giants: How Three Island Nations Control the Pacific

Skyler Bohnert Dec 3, 2021

Why does the US care so much about three of the world’s smallest, most remote nations? The answer is that it doesn’t — at least, not outside the bubble of preserving US imperialism against a rising Chinese threat.
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Fear, Corruption, and Apathy: The Struggle for Nigerian Democracy

Skyler Bohnert Nov 9, 2021

Democracy survives when its voters believe and participate in the system. In Nigeria, the history of violence, lack of change, and inability to ensure fair elections has pressured voters to believe that democracy is broken — and they’re…
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