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

Though it’s become a common refrain in development studies, other fields and members of the public are often unaware of how problematic voluntourism is.
Read More...

A four-month period in 2018 saw a series of murders in Iraq from which a significant pattern emerged. The victims of these crimes were all high-profile young women, many of whom were known to speak out for womens' rights and freedoms. These…
Read More...

Writing in Turkey has become a difficult task. Most of the sincere journalists have been arrested and put on trial while the newspapers left are attached to the state and glorify the AKP.  Erdogan claims that “Most of those you say are in…
Read More...

The trajectory of events around the North Pole may be uncertain but with market forces and geopolitical strategy at play, one can be sure that national and corporate agendas will show increasing attention to the frozen frontier.
Read More...

As the US government pushes regime change in Venezuela, it has emphasized the long-asserted narrative that the Venezuelan government is connected to global terror networks. The narrative not only works to legitimize US activities in the…
Read More...

Mr. Trump and his campaign team may well have committed crimes on their way to the West Wing, and they should be held accountable for those misdeeds as equals under the law. But to invalidate the 2016 election on grounds of foreign…
Read More...

This afternoon, President Trump announced that the United States would be formally recognizing Israel’s claims to the Golan Heights, a mountainous region  between Syria and Israel. Currently considered Syrian land under occupation by much…
Read More...

The recent escalation of Venezuela’s political and economic crisis has sparked vibrant discussion on the origins of the nation’s downfall. Mounting discontent over the country’s bleak future and ever-worsening economic situation has reached…
Read More...

This year, Ukraine’s tumultuous polity will be shaken once again as the country heads to the polls: March 31st will mark Ukraine’s first post-revolutionary election.
Read More...

The past 40 years have seen other refugee crises come and go in many other countries, but the way in which Canada went about providing aid in 1979 stood out as unique and innovative. The way Canada handled the Southeast Asian refugee crisis…
Read More...