Bates College Journal of Political Studies
Volume 3, Issue 1 (2026) Spring 2026
Full Issue
Bates College Journal of Political Studies: Volume III, Issue 1, Spring 2026
Bates Initiative for Government Studies
Articles
Everybody Wants to Rule the World: How Ballistic Missile Defenses Can Reduce the Risk of War
Aanya Ghosh
Guerillas, MANPADs, and How to Shift a Conflict in Favor of the Weaker Side
Augustus MFXU Giller
The Costs of Selective Intervention: Why the Obama Administration Chose to Intervene in Libya Over Syria
Rayanne Attar
Weaknesses of Opponents, Strengths of the Taliban: The Success of the Taliban Insurgency
Isabella Ryan
Advancing SDG 7.2: China's Global Renewable Energy Transition
Maria Clara Machado Corrêa
Economic Security and Strategic Rivalry: Industrial Policy and the U.S.–China Security Dilemma
Nurielle Rahav
Where India Sits in International Political Economy
Sophia Usmani
MONEY AND STATE POLITICS: STATE LEGISLATURE PARTISAN DYNAMICS AND IDEOLOGY OUTCOMES FOLLOWING CITIZENS UNITED V. FEC
Jillian E. Pastore
Executive Retrenchment: An Exploration of Gender Identity Policy in the Second Trump Administration
Robert H. Cropp
Exploring Health Policy as a Critical Mechanism of Expression of Right-Wing Government Policy
Aleisha Martinez Sandoval
Editors
- Editors in Chief
- Karan Kuppa-Apte
- Maria Clara Machado Corrêa
- Managing Editors
- Aahana Dutta
- Kyra Chen Lie Friederich
- Augustus Giller
- Staff Editors
- Rowan Drant
- Hannah Hanson
- Eliza Loring
- Rye MacCurtain
- Amelia McAvoy
- Cate Sauri
- Khadija Shayagan
- Jamie Shelton
- Winston Singh
- Cathy Shi
- Wyatt Teaford
- Maria Torres Rey
- Aarav Worah
- Raven Zhang