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Yonsei Journal of International Studies

Yonsei Journal of International Studies

A peer-reviewed, student-run academic journal of the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University (ISSN: 2005-9809)

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  • Issues
    • Strategic Currents: Power, Trade, and Influence in a Multipolar World (Volume 16, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2024)
    • Geopolitics & Economics: Emerging Trends and Regional Strategies (Volume 16, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2024)
    • Crossroads: Law, Power, & Society (Volume 15, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2023)
    • Within and Beyond the Peninsula (Volume 15, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2023)
    • In Retrospect: Looking to History to Understand the Present (Volume 14, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2022)
    • Redefining Allegiance and Activism (Volume 14, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2022)
    • Identities (Volume 13, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2021)
    • Social Adaptation (Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2021)
    • International Outlooks (Volume 12, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2020)
    • East Asia: Past, Present, and Future (Volume 12 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2020)
    • Eclectic Engagement (Volume 11 Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2019)
    • Asia Revival (Volume 11 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2019)
    • Problems, Challenges, and Perspectives (Volume 10 Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2019)
    • Reflecting on History, Readying for the Future (Volume 10 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2018)
    • Nations in Transition (Volume 9 Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2017)
    • Politics & Culture (Volume 9, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2017)
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Volume 2, Issue 1 (Spring/Summer 2010)

  • Table of Contents
  • Letter from the Editor (Holly Stephens, Pages 5-7)
  • Meet the Contributors (PEAR, Pages 9-13)

Papers

  • Costs and Benefits of the Payments for Environmental Services Program in Costa Rica: the Trade-off between Poverty Reduction… (Kimberly Lyon, Odette Mucha and Hannah Skelly, Pages 17-36)
  • Politics and Religion in Contemporary Burma: Buddhist Monks as Opposition (Syed Mohammed Ad’ha Aljunied, Pages 37-49)

Essays

  • Velayat-e Faqih in Contemporary Iran (Josiah Marineau, Pages 93-100)
  • The Implications of Obama’s Foreign Policy for Domestic and International Human Rights (Erica Rosenfield , Pages 101-108)

Reviews

  • Shipyards, the Seed of Democracy and its Struggle under Park Chung Hee: Questions of Continuity (Luis Botella, Pages 111-114)
  • A World without Agency: the Absence of Free Will in Tessa Morris-Suzuki’s Exodus to North Korea (Joseph Mondello, Pages 115-117)

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