Category: Publications
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Case Studies
Case 363. Negotiating Peace and Justice: Womenâs Leadership, Participation, and Representation in the Process to End Civil War in Guatemala
This case examines womenâs involvement in the peace process to end the Civil War in Guatemala. Mayesha Alam and GĂŠnesis Torres-AlcĂĄntara provide background on the civil war and how it specifically impacted women, and analyze how womenâs groups organized to achieve their goals in the peace process. This case study is meant to be instructive [âŚ]
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Global Commons Working Group
Enemies Foreign and Domestic: Confronting Kleptocrats at Home and Abroad
As Putin and his kleptocratic regime of oligarchs wage a devastating war in Ukraine, the costs of corruption have never been so starkly visible. Beyond Russia, recent examples of corruption in China, Afghanistan, the Northern Triangle, the Solomon Islands, and elsewhere, prove that rampant corruption poses a significant threat to aspirations for a greener, healthier, [âŚ]
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Case Studies
Case 359. The Road Not Taken: How the Iran-India Pipeline Fell Victim to new Delhi’s Grand Strategy Shift
This case study explores the twists and turns in Indiaâs relations with Iran between 2005 and 2012. It is designed to illustrate the material and ideational factors that drove a rising middle power like India to make policy choices with a backdrop of a major shift in its grand strategy. A secondary focus is how [âŚ]
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Case Studies
Case 360. Sports Diplomacy in Africa: The NBA and the Basketball Africa League
This case examines the creation of the Basketball Africa League and its impact on sports diplomacy. Based on the authorâs experience as a historian, writer, and consultant working at the intersection of global sports, communications, and diplomacy, this case provides a framework through which students can learn about the NBAâS different basketball diplomacy efforts in [âŚ]
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Case Studies
Case 361. Dollarization Diplomacy: The Case of Ecuador and El Salvador
This case examines Ecuador and El Salvadorâs decision to âdollarize,â that is, to make the U.S. dollar their official currency. Britta Crandall, a visiting professor of Latin American Studies at Davidson College, explores the very different conditions and motivators that led to the decision to dollarize in each country, and how those decisions played out. [âŚ]
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Global Commons Working Group
Peace Through Food: Ending the Hunger-Instability Nexus
In the twentieth century, humankind made phenomenal steps to increase food production. But today, complex and interrelated issues drive an increase in food insecurity globally, and propel conflict, migration, and human insecurity. Nearly a billion people, at a minimum, are malnourished or suffer the pains of hungerâwhile the world wastes a third of food produced. [âŚ]
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Case Studies
Case 352. Ireland’s Election to the UN Human Rights Council: Power, Influence, Reputation
Elections to UN bodies provide an important window into the work of the worldâs largest and most important international organization. This case examines the role of a comparatively small state, Ireland, and its successful election to the UN Human Rights Council in November 2012.The case begins with background on the role of elections at the [âŚ]
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Case Studies
Case 353. Circumventing the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: Henry Kissinger, Anatoly Dobrynin, and Back-Channel Diplomacy
This case study explores the back-channel relationship between Henry Kissinger, who served as Nixonâs national security advisor (and later secretary of state), and Anatoly Dobrynin, the Soviet Unionâs ambassador to the United States from 1962 to 1986. During the Nixon administration (1969-1974), the Kissinger-Dobrynin channel became the primary forum for candid discussion of the major [âŚ]
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Case Studies
Case 354. Resolving the Libyan Crisis: An ISD International Negotiation Simulation
On the night of April 26, 2007, riots erupted in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Groups consisting largely of ethnic Russians, who make up approximately one third of Tallinnâs population, protested in the streets, clashed with police forces, and looted and destroyed stores. Two days later, once the violence subsided, one person had died, more than 150 [âŚ]
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Case Studies
Case 355. Estonia: The First Battle in the Modern Disinformation War. Lessons for Democracies Fighting Warfare
On the night of April 26, 2007, riots erupted in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Groups consisting largely of ethnic Russians, who make up approximately one third of Tallinnâs population, protested in the streets, clashed with police forces, and looted and destroyed stores. Two days later, once the violence subsided, one person had died, more than 150 [âŚ]
