Emerging Voices is a foreign policy blog written by YPFP New York members. It provides an opportunity for members to contribute analysis and help shape the organization’s outlook. We welcome submissions from YPFP NY members and invite you to pitch an article. For submission guidelines click here.
A Lesson in Discipline: Jordan’s 2020 Mark on the World
By Jace Gilmore |
By Diala Ghneim As COVID-19 spread across the world, media outlets focused on different countries’ responses to the pandemic and the differences in the number of deaths. While larger, more powerful countries have had difficulty tackling the current crisis, developing countries have been at the forefront of COVID-19’s battle and have seen ground-breaking results. One…
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A Bias for Action on Climate Change: An Addendum to the Command’s Planning Guidance for 2020
By Jace Gilmore |
By Tom Persico The commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) is its highest-ranking officer. He is responsible for laying out the agenda in the years to come in a publication called the Commandant’s Planning Guidance. The 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps calls for a new fighting model to be a better fighting force…
Read More Have we done enough to combat racism?
By Aubrey Cox Ottenstein |
Black lives matter. YPFP unequivocally condemns systemic racism and police brutality, in the United States and around the world. From Minneapolis to Hong Kong, Cairo to Moscow, young people are on the frontlines of protests, fighting generational injustice and demanding a better tomorrow. These young people have been subjected to escalating violence at the hands…
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The Gendered Impact of COVID-19: What Policymakers Can Learn from Gender and Conflict
By Jace Gilmore |
By Bethan Saunders and Courtney Bale Dunlevie During this global public health crisis, leaders have used conflict-based language to describe the COVID-19 pandemic. From President Trump’s declaration of becoming a “wartime president” to Xi Jinping’s “people’s war,” they have cast the coronavirus as a metaphorical foe to be vanquished. Rhetorical flourishes aside, this public health…
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Against All Odds: Botswana’s Development Wonder
By Jace Gilmore |
By Timothy Motte Noted by Paul Collier in his seminal work, The Bottom Billion, being landlocked, having bad neighbors, and suffering from a poorly educated population are just some of the obstacles countries face as they develop, and Botswana faces all three. Not only is the country bordered by Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, and Namibia,…
Read More Delegates of Y7 Summit Call on G7 Leaders for Coordinated COVID-19 Response
By Ben Goodrich |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT MARCH 30, 2020 Christina Kanmaz christina.connelly@ypfp.org Washington, DC – The delegates of the 2020 Y7 Summit, the youth summit which accompanies the G7 Summit, have released their first policy statement calling on the leaders of the G7 countries for a stronger, more coordinated response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The statement,…
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