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Nov 4, 2024 · You Are What You Eat: How Free Trade Shapes Obesity Rates. Join BPR! the Brown Political Review is Brown's entirely student-run political publication. Across our ten boards, undergraduates explore the most pressing political issues of our day.
The Linguistic Colonialism of English - Brown Political Review
Apr 25, 2017 · The Linguistic Colonialism of English. Some argue that the historical and current bloodshed of Western imperialism has transformed the English language into a universal tool of communication. Through centuries of colonialism, neocolonialism, Cold War expansionism, and, most recently, globalization, the West has spread its preferred systems of ...
Personal Space and American Individualism - Brown Political Review
Oct 31, 2018 · Personal space is defined as the invisible bubble that surrounds a person’s body during an interaction. In 2001, researchers analyzed the distance that people of different cultures maintained when talking with someone, and found that people from the US and the UK maintained the largest personal distance (81.43 cm), whereas people from Latin ...
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Brown Political Review is Brown University’s entirely student-written and student-run, nonpartisan magazine for political journalism. Founded in 2012, BPR aims to bring high-quality reporting on regional, national, and international politics to Brown, the Providence community, and beyond. Brown Political Review publishes a print magazine four …
Radicalism and Revolution: An Interview with Bernardine Dohrn
Feb 20, 2021 · Bernardine Rae Dohrn (b. 1942) is a retired law professor from Northwestern University and the former leader of the Weather Underground Organization, a radical-left militant group prolific during the Vietnam War Era. The Weather Underground was responsible for the bombings of various government buildings, including the Pentagon, the United States Capitol Building, and a number of police ...
The Chaebol: A Curse in Disguise - Brown Political Review
Mar 26, 2023 · Hailed as the “Miracle on the Han River,” South Korea’s rapid growth transformed the economy of one of the poorest countries in the world to one of the largest and most innovative. Today, the country is one of the largest exporters in the world, with exports totaling 40 percent of GDP in 2016—a massive rise from just four percent in 1961. In the same period of time, average income in ...
The Ethics of Modern Warfare - Brown Political Review
Nov 25, 2016 · The ethics of war can be very complicated, but for the most part, many people agree that preemptive strikes can be justified if, and only if, it can reasonably be determined that the attack would spare more casualties than it would cause. This holds true for civilians as well as combatants. For instance, if the US could obtain credible ...
Borders and Identities - Brown Political Review
Apr 7, 2016 · Borders are central to this identity creation. The physical border of the “wall” serves as an embodiment of the difference, real or imagined, between the US and Mexico. In recognizing that split and exaggerating the differences between the two countries, Trump forces the bifurcation of the two to the foreground of the argument.
Perception in Politics: An Interview with Robert Jervis
Shilpa Sajja | September 29, 2020. Robert Jervis is a professor of international politics at Columbia University. He studies the intersection of psychology and international relations. His work challenges popular notions about nuclear deterrence by noting the complexities that perception and misperception introduce to deterrence and foreign ...
Institutional Gaslighting: Investigations to Silence the Victim and ...
Apr 5, 2019 · When someone expects to trust the judgment of an institution, but the institution then betrays justice, survivors are gaslighted. For instance, Harvard University’s Office for Dispute Resolution (ODR) was created to pose as an impartial investigative process to Harvard students, faculty, and affiliates, particularly for sexual or gender-based harassment.