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Bates College Journal of Political Studies

Bates College Journal of Political Studies

Current Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1 (2025) Fall 2025

Full Issue

Bates College Journal of Political Studies: Volume II, Issue 1, Fall 2025
Bates Initiative for Government Studies

Articles

Conflating Disease, Morality, and Sex: Regulating Military Fitness in the War Years
Hanna Ranis

Combating Human Rights Abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Karan Kuppa-Apte

Institutionalizing (?) the South: The New Development Bank
Kyra Friederich

Reshaping Globalization from Within: China’s Vision through BRICS and Beyond
Kyra Friederich

Recurring Patterns in Democratic Backsliding: The United States, Hungary, and Israel
Leah Brouda

Rethinking Coercion: Moving Beyond Moralized Accounts of Coercion
Lorenz N. Soukup

Patenting Health: How Intellectual Property Rights Jeopardise Medical Research
Lorenz N. Soukup

Spirituality Activism and Identity as a Site of Transformation Based on Gloria Anzaldùa’s Vision of Resistance
Maria Torres Rey

On the Persistence of Justice: Is justice always the bedrock of a political constitution?
Miles Kaufman

Why Democracy Hasn’t “Ghanaway”: On the Persistence of Ghanaian Democracy
Miles Kaufman

Trump vs. The Fourteenth Amendment
Rye MacCurtain

Trump, the Authoritarian Influencer: BRICS, the Rise of the Right, and the Fall of Multilateralism
Sophia Usmani

SLBMs vs ASW: The Race for Deterrence
Theodore M. Rosen

Exploring Saudi Arabia’s Failed War in Yemen Through a Civil-Military Relations Lens
Zachariah Richards

Editors

Editors in Chief: Karan Kuppa-Apte; Maria Clara Machado Corrêa
Managing Editors: Jameson Eigel; Hanna Ranis; Lena LaPierre
Staff Editors: Aahana Dutta; Aanya Ghosh; Hannah Hanson; Levi Lux; Mariana Nolasco Alcantara; Abigail Rudnitsky; Cate Sauri; Wyatt Teaford; Maria Torres Rey; Raven Zhang