Alumni Essay Title Collection

Perspectives Across Cohort Years

Committee on Global Thought shares its distinct collection of essay titles from previous cohorts, showcasing their diverse perspectives, ideas and areas of research from around the world. Browse a broad range of subjects that reflect a spirit of knowledge, inquiry and critical thought, offering new ways to understand, reflect and contribute to our evolving society.

Cohort Essay Title Collection

First Name: Erzsébet (Elisabeth)
Last Name: Ábrám
Essay Title: From Aid to Agency: System‑Level Investing as a New Mindset for African Development

First Name: Zara
Last Name: Akhbari
Essay Title: Everyone Eats But Brazil: How Farmer Education Perpetuates Brazil’s Role as an Agro-Exporter

First Name: Moe
Last Name: Alatawi
Essay Title: Data Renaissance: Human-Centric Metrics for an AI Age

First Name: Sarah
Last Name: Asbai
Essay Title: From Manufacturer to Creator: Chinese Brands as Drivers of Soft Power in Western Markets

First Name: Chuyue (Jessie)
Last Name: Bian
Essay Title: The Conditional Transformation of Dollar Dominance: Structure, Pressures, and the Emerging Polycentric Monetary Order

First Name: Diewo
Last Name: Camara
Essay Title: The Burden of Being Believed: Gender, Culture, and Credibility in U.S. Asylum Law

First Name: Clateo
Last Name: Caprotti
Essay Title: The Infrastructure of Power: Private Philanthropy and Cultural Governance in New York and Turin

First Name: Han
Last Name: Chia
Essay Title: Neither Prevention nor Resolution: ASEAN, Norms, and the 2025 Thai-Cambodia Conflict

First Name: Alexia
Last Name: Dehe
Essay Title: The Arts as Resistance: Reimagining Education Beyond Neoliberal Rationality

First Name: Erin
Last Name: Della Puca
Essay Title: Soft Sciences, Soft Skills, and Space Research: A Mini-Ethnographic Case Study

First Name: Wan Ying (Jade)
Last Name: Duong
Essay Title: From Silicon Valley to the Global South: How Have U.S. Blockades on China Shaped Chinese Tech Strategy?

First Name: Ammara
Last Name: Elsevier
Essay Title: Political Provocation and Content Creation: The Appeal of “Tradlife” in Trump’s America

First Name: Zihan (Amos)
Last Name: Fan
Essay Title: Tech Nationalism, Selective Gatekeeping, and the Political Economy of U.S.-China AI/Chip Rivalry

First Name: Alex
Last Name: Haegeman
Essay Title: Factories, Finance, and the China Frame: The Limits of American Reindustrialization and the Rise of AI

First Name: Sirinut (Gene)
Last Name: Jaratchontsuntorn
Essay Title: Global Norms and Local Realities: The Limits of Global AI Governance in Thailand

First Name: Carolin
Last Name: Klein
Essay Title: A New Defense of Abortion: Rethinking Thomson’s Thought Experiments Through the Real Costs of Pregnancy and Childbirth

First Name: Toni
Last Name: Meiswinkel
Essay Title: Invisible in a Storm: The Istanbul Convention in a Climate-Altered Reality

First Name: Aziz
Last Name: Mugren
Essay Title: Can UBI Alone Keep Capitalism Viable in the Age of AI Abundance and Concentrated Ownership by Preserving Both Work Incentives and Social Legitimacy?

First Name: Tesfamichael
Last Name: Negussie
Essay Title: Debate as Anticolonial Praxis: The Dual Inheritance of Colonial Education

First Name: Sarah
Last Name: Noorbakhsh
Essay Title: Contested Monuments: Tools of Community, Transformation, and Democratic Renegotiation

First Name: Osarum
Last Name: Okunbo
Essay Title: Memory, Masking, and Market: The Historical Survival and Contemporary Commodification of Yoruba Spiritual Traditions

First Name: Maria
Last Name: Remy
Essay Title: The Dollar Princess Revisited: Marriage as Capital Conversion in the Global Elite, 1870-2026

First Name: Jit Yong
Last Name: Sim
Essay Title: When the World Order Breaks Down: Adapting to Hegemonic Volatility in Qatar and Singapore

First Name: Tabitha
Last Name: Swanson
Essay Title: America Will Lose the AI Race with China… Unless it Creates a Universal Healthcare Program

First Name: Naveen
Last Name: Venkatanarayanan
Essay Title: How Can We (Re-)Define AI Literacy to Account for the Iterative Nature of AI Use and What are the Implications for AI Literacy Pedagogy and Assessment?

First Name: Leander
Last Name: Weigelt
Essay Title: Modeling How Rising Energy Demand Affects Investor Owned Utilities’ Capacity Expansion, Investment Needs, and Emissions in the United States

First Name: Yujun
Last Name: Wong
Essay Title: Bodies, Bunks, and Becoming: Reframing Migrant Worker Subjectivity through the Singaporean Soldier

First Name: Jianyu (Evelyn)
Last Name: Wu
Essay Title: The Politics of the Face: The Algorithmic Visibility of White Beauty and Its Influence on Chinese Faces on Xiaohongshu

First Name: Haozhen
Last Name: Xu
Essay Title: Eastern Promises: Sino-Japanese Narratives in Infrastructural Investments in Africa and Southeast Asia

First Name: Xiaoyi (Nita)
Last Name: Yu
Essay Title: When Care Becomes a Liability: Organizational Gateways and Women’s Career Advancement in Japan, China, and the United States

First Name: Ziqin (Joanna)
Last Name: Zhang
Essay Title: The Future of Volunteer-Based Education and Sustainable Development in East Africa

First Name: Morgan
Last Name: Alexander
Essay Title: Justice on the Grass: Lessons in Transitional Justice from the ICTR and Gacaca Courts in Post-Genocide Rwanda

First Name: Soulet
Last Name: Ali
Essay Title: East Asian Racial Supremacies: Blood Purity Ideology and the Construction of the part of the 2024 cohort by graduated in 2025, so we are including her in the class of 2025 graduates

First Name: Anton Miguel
Last Name: Alonte
Essay Title: Legacies of Rule: Colonial Roots of Elite Families and Corruption in the Philippines

First Name: Zareen
Last Name: Bedita
Essay Title: When Space comes Alive: Memory, Identity, and the Synergy of Art and Architecture in Protest

First Name: Chloe
Last Name: Bonnefil
Essay Title: The Rhythm of Resistance: Kanaval, Dominican Tensions, and the Construction of Haitian Identity

First Name: Dorian Christopher
Last Name: Chang
Essay Title: Toward a Global Post-ESG Disclosure Framework: Embedding Systemic Risk and Sustainability into Financial Governance

First Name: Meiru
Last Name: Chen
Essay Title: When AI Decides: The Making of a Utopian Dream or Dystopian Divide

First Name: Vivian
Last Name: Chen
Essay Title: Beyond Symbols: Navigating Cultural Sensitivity and Representation in Advertising in China

First Name: Lena
Last Name: Cole
Essay Title: Building Resilient Economies of Care

First Name: Angela
Last Name: Corbett
Essay Title: British Tabloids' Impunity: A Thesis Examining the Role of British Tabloids and Immigration Ahead of the 2016 Brexit Referendum

First Name: Luhui
Last Name: Gao
Essay Title: The Multilingual Machine Dreams in One Tongue: AI and the Cultural Hegemony of High-Resourced Languages

First Name: Mercedes
Last Name: Garcia-Kenny
Essay Title: Sovereignty in the Global South: State-Led Oil vs. Deregulated Lithium in Argentina’s Geopolitical Landscape

First Name: Mila
Last Name: Greco
Essay Title: The Influence of the Digital Age on Humanitarian Aid Organizations: A Comparative Analysis of Marketing Strategies used by International Organizations

First Name: Alexandra
Last Name: Hussey
Essay Title: Blue States, Green Challenges: The Struggle to Pass Climate Education Policy in New York and Oregon

First Name: Haakon Quang-Trung Buu (Haakon)
Last Name: Huynh
Essay Title: Between Protest and Polls: Vietnamese Diasporic Politics in the United States and Norway

First Name: Aveen
Last Name: Jamal
Essay Title: From Tragedy to Transformation: Defining an Inclusive New-Normal for the Garments Industry in Bangladesh

First Name: Bianca
Last Name: Jituboh
Essay Title: Shared Sufferance Across the Atlantic: Black Women’s Struggle Against Maternal Mortality and Systematic Healthcare Failures in the UK and US

First Name: Soo Kyung
Last Name: Kim
Essay Title: Balancing Autonomy and Surveillance: How Has the Shift to Remote Work Impacted Employee Autonomy and Workplace Monitoring?

First Name: Angelica
Last Name: Levy Ephraums
Essay Title: Contesting Collective Memory and Israeli Statehood: Moving Beyond the Singular Nation-building Narrative

First Name: Lulke
Last Name: Linich
Essay Title: Caught Between Giants: Agency, Hierarchy, and Survival in the Caucasus States

First Name: Nathaniel
Last Name: Luke
Essay Title: Marine Protection Area Expansion in Trinidad & Tobago: Arguments Against Big Oil, and Pro-Economic and Environmental Rights

First Name: Alyssa
Last Name: Lytvynova
Essay Title: History of Social Catastrophes as Key Fertility Determinants in Ukraine

First Name: Natalia
Last Name: Maglione
Essay Title: Energy Security Redefined: China’s Strategic Leadership and Route to Global Energy Influence

First Name: Salma
Last Name: Malaikah
Essay Title: Between Oil and Obligation: Cultural Hurdles to Sustainability in Saudi Arabia and the United States

First Name: Tova
Last Name: Marshall
Essay Title: From Vandalism to Fine Art: Graffiti’s Commodification in the Creative City Economy

First Name: Sola
Last Name: Morota-Alakija
Essay Title: The Age of Dissonance: How Populist Leaders Have Exploited the Epistemic Void Left By Relativism to Roll Back Democracy

First Name: Phan Anh
Last Name: Nguyen
Essay Title: Neo-colonialism through the Global South Reliance on Northern AI he did a dual degree!

First Name: Aliza
Last Name: Sabih
Essay Title: Re-imaging Multilateralism: A New Trade Architecture for a Global Green Transition

First Name: Maryam
Last Name: Sadr
Essay Title: Global Governance and Multilateralism in the “Post-Global Era”

First Name: Sora
Last Name: Sato
Essay Title: Vulnerable Yet Resilient: Children’s Role in Disaster Recovery

First Name: Elnaz
Last Name: Sharifi
Essay Title: Protest Movements in Iran in the 21st Century: Structural Barriers and Prospects for Regime Change

First Name: Kimberley
Last Name: Sommerand
Essay Title: Influencing the Crisis: How the Digital Attention Economy Fuels Overconsumption and Undermines Climate Action

First Name: Malene Anthony
Last Name: Sommerand
Essay Title: Influencing the Crisis: How the Digital Attention Economy Fuels Overconsumption and Undermines Climate Action

First Name: Celine
Last Name: Sung
Essay Title: A Taste of Sovereignty: Taiwan’s Culinary Fight for Independence

First Name: Leah
Last Name: Tahmassian
Essay Title: Soft Power from the People: How Pandemic Response Portrayal through Social Media Shaped Modern Japanese Idealization

First Name: Xin (Lillian)
Last Name: Weng
Essay Title: Sports-led Gentrification: Urban Displacement in a Global Context

First Name: Ziwen Annie
Last Name: Yin
Essay Title: The Rise of the Citizen Journalism: Truth, Bias, and Influence in the Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine Conflicts

First Name: Hania
Last Name: Zhou
Essay Title: Inside China’s Digital Control: Chinese Muslim Social Media Governance and Its Global Implication

First Name: Sehr
Last Name: Ahsan
Essay Title: Divided by Belief: Populist Movements and Religious Identity in India and Pakistan

First Name: Filwa
Last Name: Aldughaither
Essay Title: From the ‘Awakening’ of Repression to the ‘Awakening’ of Reform: A Study of the Causes and Challenges of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030

First Name: Lulu
Last Name: Bird
Essay Title: An Algorithm for America: The American Presidential Election Through the Eyes of TikTok

First Name: Zoraver
Last Name: Cheema
Essay Title: Reimagining Sikh Separatism: A Global Tale of Economic and Diaspora Forces

First Name: Thomas
Last Name: Chen
Essay Title: Living in Cyberspace: A Philosophical Analysis of Inhabiting Virtual Worlds

First Name: Kyoungjin
Last Name: Cho
Essay Title: Beyond the Bite: Food as a Tool of Diplomacy and Nationalism

First Name: Carlos
Last Name: Diaz
Essay Title: Vulnerability and Resilience in Ecuador and Mexico: How Investment in Disaster Preparedness Impacts Developing Nations

First Name: Florence
Last Name: Edmondson
Essay Title: How Does Prison Policy Impact Transgender Women’s Experiences of Incarceration in Male Facilities? A Postcolonial Analysis of Trans Women's Detention

First Name: Dunnia
Last Name: Eljamal
Essay Title: Diplomatic Ties: Tracing the Roots of Unprecedented Support for the Liberation of Palestine

First Name: Shirin
Last Name: Fatima
Essay Title: Shein Hauls, the Threat to Sustainability, and Human Agency through Influencer Marketing

First Name: Timothée
Last Name: Garcenot
Essay Title: The Chinese Growth Model in the Face of Structural Economic Slowdown and the Environmental Crisis

First Name: Nastasya
Last Name: Generalova
Essay Title: The Decline in Attention to Universal Food Security

First Name: Gareth
Last Name: Goh
Essay Title: Beyond Bottom Lines: Reimagining the Business as a Socially Conscious Corporate Citizen through Global Policy Paradigms

First Name: Nilsu
Last Name: Guler
Essay Title: Art as an Instrument of Neoliberal Urbanization: Narratives of Cultural Loss and Social Inequality (Florence, Paris, New York, and Johannesburg)

First Name: Jasrene
Last Name: Hor
Essay Title: Navigating the Nexus of Economics and Geopolitics: An Analysis of Contemporary Economic Warfare

First Name: Parker
Last Name: Hovis
Essay Title: The Alienation of the Soldier

First Name: Xingmin
Last Name: Jian
Essay Title: This Is How Inequality Arises: A Cross Country Analysis on Educational Justice

First Name: Claas Julius
Last Name: Junck
Essay Title: Unveiling Pathways to Effective Policy Making in the Building Sector of New York City: A Realist Case Evaluation of Renewable Energy Credits in Local Law 97

First Name: Andrea
Last Name: Kim
Essay Title: How the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Exercises Power through Global Sports Governance

First Name: Sohee
Last Name: Kwon
Essay Title: ‘I Am Most Anxious’: Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, Franz Boas, and the Exchange of Totem Poles

First Name: Amy
Last Name: Lin
Essay Title: Small States, Loud Voices: The Impact of Twiplomacy for Small States in Asymmetric, Protracted Interstate Conflicts

First Name: Zoe
Last Name: Lo
Essay Title: Neoliberal Tide of Social Resilience Rhetoric in New York City Post-Hurricane Sandy

First Name: Isaac
Last Name: Mahesan
Essay Title: From Discourse to Dogma: Exploring the Role of Language in the Incel Subculture Online

First Name: Morgan
Last Name: McBride
Essay Title: The Theft of Democracy in Post-Communist Europe: Democratic Backsliding Through the Lens of Organized Crime and Populist Politics

First Name: Jillian (JiJi)
Last Name: Mielke
Essay Title: Not My Climate Change, Not My Migrants

First Name: Emmanuel
Last Name: Ohiri
Essay Title: A Call for Reflexive Multilateralism: Centering Cities in the Management of Planetary Human Migration

First Name: Luisa
Last Name: Prado Affonso Moreira
Essay Title: How can AI be Integrated into Conditional Cash Transfer Programs, and What Are the Potential Benefits and Challenges of Doing So? A Case Study of the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program

First Name: Riccardo
Last Name: Ravasi
Essay Title: From Rite to Might: How Contemporary Authoritarian Regimes Endure and Expand Through Nationalistic Rituals

First Name: Ana Sofia
Last Name: Salas Betancourt
Essay Title: Global Discourses in Local Contexts: A Critical Analysis of Mexico's Cultural Heritage Restitution Policy during Andrés Manuel López Obrador's Presidency

First Name: William
Last Name: Simqu
Essay Title: Canals in Crises: To What Extent Are Climate Change and War Reshaping Maritime Shipping Routes, and How Is International Trade Likely to Be Affected as a Result?

First Name: Linlin
Last Name: Tan
Essay Title: Framing the Dragon: An Analysis of the ‘China Threat’ Narrative in the United States

First Name: Saloni
Last Name: Uttam
Essay Title: What AI Owes the World: Investigating Peacetech and Charting a New Course for AI-based Conflict Prediction

First Name: Wouter
Last Name: van Bodegraven
Essay Title: Unraveling the Cobalt Conundrum: Ethical Imperatives of Conflict Mining in the Global Energy Transition

First Name: Amanda
Last Name: Villa
Essay Title: The Climate Zeitgeist: Exploring the Nexus of Mental Health and Climate Change for Effective Policy Solutions

First Name: Jie Rui Terence
Last Name: Wong
Essay Title: Charting the Tides: Unraveling the Proliferation of Maritime Contestation and its Dynamics

First Name: Nancy
Last Name: Zhou
Essay Title: Toss, Treat, and Trade: Governing the International Waste Flow and Its Indemnity in Exchange

First Name: Christina
Last Name: Aldeanueva
Essay Title: A Financial David and Goliath: How A Cyber Collective Redefined Investment Behavior

First Name: Oluwagbemisola
Last Name: Anifowose-Eso
Essay Title: Right to the New City – Investigating the Regeneration of the London Docklands and Contentions Over Space During the Regeneration Period

First Name: Hannah
Last Name: Brown
Essay Title: Persistent Lookism: An Analysis of Discrimination Against Cleft Individuals in Countries of Different Economic Standings

First Name: Megan Zen Min
Last Name: Chin
Essay Title: The Global Spectacle of “Nature”: An Eco-Critical Analysis of Planet Earth II

First Name: Ting Fang
Last Name: Chu
Essay Title: Unpacking Racial Harmony: The Pursuit of Multiracialism and its Consequences on Singapore’s Social Order

First Name: Costanza Ludovica
Last Name: Crivelli Visconti
Essay Title: The Neoliberal Power Shift in U.S. Space Policy: Its Effects on the Republican Legitimacy of the Liberal International Order

First Name: Alix
Last Name: Dazin
Essay Title: The place of universities in a degree-optional world

First Name: Nisma
Last Name: Hamid
Essay Title: Thawra and Theyab: The Transnational Proliferation of Sudanese Aesthetic Symbolism

First Name: Aisha
Last Name: Javaid
Essay Title: Females Figuring it out: How FemTech is Transforming Women’s Health

First Name: Vanesa
Last Name: Kim
Essay Title: Dressing for a Cause: The Art of Performative Democracy in Argentina

First Name: Megan
Last Name: Low
Essay Title: The future of pandemic response: An analysis on the impact of private actors within global health governance

First Name: Madeline
Last Name: Macdonald
Essay Title: Elevated Purpose: Equitable Placemaking Considerations for Exporting Manhattan’s High Line

First Name: Matheus
Last Name: Marlisson
Essay Title: Re-Imagining Rio as a Global City: Lessons from Favelas on the Role of Urban Space in a Changing World

First Name: Saira
Last Name: Masood
Essay Title: Ayatollah Khomeini: Elevating Islamic Theology into Political Discourse

First Name: Laetoitia
Last Name: Maurat
Essay Title: The Use of Open Source Intelligence at the International Criminal Court

First Name: Skylar
Last Name: Mitchell
Essay Title: Public Television as a Tool of Understanding: How Does Public Television Inform Citizens in a Multicultural, Cosmopolitan Society?

First Name: Sarah
Last Name: Nasir
Essay Title: Misinformation Policy Paradox: Safeguarding Liberal Values While Combating Risk

First Name: Keefe
Last Name: Ng
Essay Title: They’re Watching You: Choosing Instant Messaging Platforms (IMPs) For Usage in Totalitarian/Repressive Regimes

First Name: Anh
Last Name: Nguyen
Essay Title: Renewable Energy Certificates: A “Short-term” Solution to Pursue Net-Zero Carbon Emissions in Vietnam

First Name: Meaghan
Last Name: Ozikizler
Essay Title: Artificial Intelligence: A Double-Edged Sword
A Cross-Cultural Comparison between Europe and the United States

First Name: Alyssa
Last Name: P'ng
Essay Title: Avatar: The Way of Protecting Human Rights in the Metaverse

First Name: Lillian
Last Name: Pravda
Essay Title: Youth Philanthropy: An Untapped Demographic of Leaders and Changemaker

First Name: Diya
Last Name: Radhakrishna
Essay Title: Being Made Beautiful: Constructing Diaspora In Jersey City’s Indian Beauty Parlours

First Name: Sunera
Last Name: Rahman
Essay Title: Change the Story, Save the World: How Storytelling Can Relate Science, Dispel Fears and Empower the Masses

First Name: Paola
Last Name: Rodriguez Tiel
Essay Title: The lessons that 2020 taught the humanitarian community – and why it didn’t need to learn them again

First Name: Alisa
Last Name: Schaible
Essay Title: The necessity for a different digital public sphere – exploring options for the deepening of democracy

First Name: Shabnam
Last Name: Sharmin
Essay Title: Rohingya Crisis: Fading from the Global Consciousness- Calls for a Permanent Solution

First Name: Ephrat
Last Name: Simhon
Essay Title: Will History Change Its Course? The Rise and Fall of the Kurdish Dream of Independence in Iraq

First Name: Ruby
Last Name: Stewart-Liberty
Essay Title: How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affected ‘the West’?

First Name: Tanerfa
Last Name: Tetteh
Essay Title: The Great Exodus: A Vicious Cycle in African Human Development

First Name: Joshua Junyi
Last Name: Tham
Essay Title: Beyond Loot and Restitution: Perspectives on the Future of the Benin Treasures

First Name: Matus
Last Name: Matus
Essay Title: What are the conditions that facilitate the development of successful, sustained multilateral sanctions regimes?

First Name: Lily
Last Name: Ullah
Essay Title: Not My Emergency: Analyzing the Role of Individualism in the UK’s Response to the Climate Crisis

First Name: Ma Francesca Luisa
Last Name: Vera
Essay Title: A New Program for a New World: Creating Institutional Spaces for Global Studies at American Universities

First Name: Helena
Last Name: Wacko
Essay Title: Towards a Feminist Future of Cities: Ideas and Lessons from the Socialist Project

First Name: Annelie Odile Maria
Last Name: Wedekind
Essay Title: Gender and Nativism and the Rise of the Right: A Case Study of the Overturning of Roe v. Wade in Western Liberal Democracies

First Name: Xiqing (Kennedy)
Last Name: Zhang
Essay Title: The Impact of Deteriorating U.S.-China Relations on Chinese Students in America Post-2016

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First Name: Ella
Last Name: Abdel-Khalek
Essay Title: Dismantling ‘Lebanon’: How (inter)national narratives about the country sustain inequitable and oppressive global systems

First Name: Irene
Last Name: Akram
Essay Title: Ek Bharat, Shrestha Bharat: Islamophobia in Indian Media and Political Discourse

First Name: Tiko
Last Name: Asatiani
Essay Title: The EU and the Association Trio Dynamics Within the New World Order

First Name: Camila
Last Name: Auvray
Essay Title: Geopolitical Discussions Around Geoengineering: What is the future of our skies?

First Name: Nathalie
Last Name: Balabhadra
Essay Title: Mobilizing the Middle Kingdom: The Implications of China’s Geopolitical Rise on Nuclear Nonproliferation

First Name: Muhammad Alfian
Last Name: Bin Aman
Essay Title: Navigating the Gray Sea: A Case Study of China’s Gray Zone Activities in the South China Sea and Singapore’s Strategic Counter

First Name: Vanessa
Last Name: Bramante
Essay Title: Reconciling and Decolonizing Development in the Brazilian Amazon

First Name: Fang En
Last Name: Chua
Essay Title: Coloniality and Disease: A Tale of Two Singapores

First Name: Olimpia
Last Name: Deambrosis
Essay Title: Animals as Food: A Post-Coronial Review of Animals in the Food System in Preparation for Future Crises

First Name: Clara
Last Name: Grumnet
Essay Title: Between Cruel Optimism and Paralysis: The Question of Agency in the Age of Debt

First Name: Malik
Last Name: Harris
Essay Title: Technology, Politics, People: The (Next) Great Transformation

First Name: Alex
Last Name: Hradecky
Essay Title: From Artificial Intelligence to Populism: A Social Psychology Approach

First Name: Surya
Last Name: Jones
Essay Title: Kinning Robots

First Name: Maria Francesca
Last Name: Keller Sarmiento
Essay Title: Entrepreneurship as a Gateway for the Economic Success of Low-Income Women and Their Communities

First Name: Coen
Last Name: Kleinegris
Essay Title: Climate Change, Central Banks, and the Market: How Addressing the European Central Bank’s Market Failure Could Become a Key Step in Solving the Climate Crisis

First Name: Lukas
Last Name: Kreiter
Essay Title: The Economic, Political, and Social Impact of Artificial Neural Networks

First Name: Edmund
Last Name: Lau
Essay Title: The Contest for Our Digital Future: How has the Trans-Pacific Partnership served American security and economic interests in Southeast Asia amidst an escalating Sino-American strategic rivalry?

First Name: Celine
Last Name: Leibfried
Essay Title: More and more countries are thinking about implementing a Central Bank Digital Currency: What impact might a CBDC have on countries' domestic financial infrastructure and what might CBDCs mean for financial hegemony internationally?

First Name: Wanhui (Lexie)
Last Name: Liu
Essay Title: Social Media in Forging New Relations of Trust in Food Safety Regulation: A Comparative Study between U.S. and China

First Name: Manacoro
Last Name: Mbaye
Essay Title: Digital Lifeworlds: Black Women and the Liberatory Potential of Networked Enclaves

First Name: Fitsum
Last Name: Mehari
Essay Title: Chinese Development Finance to Africa: Trends and Implications 2000 – 2017

First Name: Siti Hilya
Last Name: Nabila
Essay Title: Questioning the Relevance of Global Governance in a Sovereign World

First Name: Anu
Last Name: Otgonbayar
Essay Title: Weaving, Not Stitching, the Global and Multicultural into Youth Education

First Name: Jasmine
Last Name: Pearce
Essay Title: Smart Contracts and Decentralized Justice

First Name: Elisabeth
Last Name: Postl
Essay Title: Viral Load: Unmasking the Role of Hegemonic Masculinity in Public Resistance to Covid-19 Safety Measures

First Name: Ivy
Last Name: Rogers
Essay Title: Inventing ‘Growth’: Constructions of Freedom and Nature in Seventeenth Century Economic Thought

First Name: Eléonore
Last Name: Roques
Essay Title: United States And European Union Perspectives On Artificial Intelligence Ethics And Governance: A Focus On Cooperation And Collaboration

First Name: Iva
Last Name: Skojo
Essay Title: Too much power in the wrong hands? Big tech and its influence on the world

First Name: Iva
Last Name: Stojanovic
Essay Title: Labour’s Voice: A Comparison Between Worker Driven Social Responsibility Agreements and Better Work in Bangladesh’s Apparel Industry

First Name: Marloes
Last Name: van Loon
Essay Title: Not Just a Diet: Veganism as a Decolonial Social Justice Movement

First Name: Francesca
Last Name: von Krauland
Essay Title: Two Cities, One Global Climate Future

First Name: Alexandra
Last Name: Waddell
Essay Title: Assessing Algorithmic Impact Assessments: Who Should be Responsible for AI Regulation?

First Name: Aleza
Last Name: Waheed
Essay Title: Golden Peaks: The Reko Diq Case and its Ramifications for the Global Investment Regime and Sustainable Development

First Name: Shanchuan
Last Name: Yin
Essay Title: The COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on the Future of Work

First Name: Sidra
Last Name: Yousaf
Essay Title: When Ummah and State Collide: Analyzing the Legitimacy of the Westphalian System in Light of the Ummah-Nation-State-Dichotomy

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