China’s hukou system, the national household registry, renders society into the urban-haves and the rural-have-nots. The hukou functions as an arbiter of entitlements by granting holders of urban status the benefit of public education, pensions, and healthcare, among other services that are lacking for rural-hukou holders. I argue that the hukou system is the chief

Kumaon is a mountainous division of a newly independent Indian state, Uttarakhand. The rural region with dramatic topography and the hill people who live there are often represented as ‘backwards’ by scholars, historians, and politicians alike. Although once subjected to an extractive history of British colonial and Indian national imperatives, the hills region now thrives

Jackson School Journal (JSJ): Could you start with a brief description of the focus of your research? Weber: My research explores the tricky relationship between national sovereignty and international cooperation through a history of U.S. military basing in Latin America during World War II. When U.S. strategists first tried to build military bases in Latin

Jackson School Journal (JSJ): Let’s start by learning a little more about you. Could you tell us about your academic career? Bessner: In college I went to Columbia and I interned at the Council on Foreign Relations my senior year, which got me oriented towards US foreign policy. I majored in modern European history and

Jackson School Journal (JSJ): What first led you to pursue a State Department career? What was your first position? Fowler: When I was in high school I lived abroad with AFS (The American Field Service), and that experience opened my horizons beyond the United States. I became very interested in learning more about international affairs

This paper evaluates the current and past diplomatic relationships between Afghanistan and its surrounding nations in the context of Afghanistan’s key position at the crossroads of Central Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East. In this paper, I address the regional and global diplomatic concerns surrounding Afghanistan’s development, specifically through the lens of utilizing Afghanistan’s

This paper addresses the formation of the law and legal system of Japan during the Meiji Restoration in the nineteenth century in the context of the historical relationship between religion and the state in Japan. I will examine how the post-World War II restructuring of Japan, led by Allied powers, affected the Japanese legal structure,