http://blog.tyglobalist.org Yale's only undergraduate international affairs blog Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:05:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Yale Globalist is excited to announce a collaboration between our publication and the world-renowned foreign policy organization responsible for some of the best coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Council on Foreign Relations. We want you to be part of it.  Check it out: http://blog.tyglobalist.org/?p=79 Catherine Cheney, Senior Editor of our magazine, went to the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States this past Tuesday and shot this amazing video of the inauguration. Other Globalist members, as well as many other Yale students, also made the trip to Washington D.C. to witness ... http://blog.tyglobalist.org/?p=78 The Yale Globalist is excited to present our new blog for the season: The World Weighs In: International Perspectives on the US Elections! Jeania Ree Moore, a freshman in Saybrook College at Yale, is blogging about the 2008 United States elections as seen by the international community. If you are ... http://blog.tyglobalist.org/?p=76 The Yale Globalist is proud and thrilled to have Paull Randt, a Yale senior, reporting from China throughout all the craze surrounding the 2008 Olympic Games. His blog is available at http://olympics.tyglobalist.org. More information about Paull can be found after the jump. Paull Randt is a senior at Yale in Davenport College. ... http://blog.tyglobalist.org/?p=71 As our maintenance continues, we'll be posting articles from our newest issue on the blog. First up is the issue's featured Focus piece on Christian missionaries in the former Soviet Union, written by Maria Blackwood (JE '10). Oksana is a 25-year-old Russian woman who works as a supervisor at the career-advising ... http://blog.tyglobalist.org/?p=66 Dear Readers, Disappointed to find that the Globalist website is under construction? Please accept our sincerest apologies. I promise you, though, you won't be disappointed with the changes. With new ed-boards come new ideas--and our newest ed-board is no different. We're revamping our website to bring you more news and more articles ... http://blog.tyglobalist.org/?p=65 This past Friday, April 18, Yale hosted the 2008 Conference of Governors on Climate Change to sign a declaration to push for better state and federal legislature to fight against climate change. The Conference was attended by the governors of Connecticut, Kansas, New Jersey, and California, as well as by ... http://blog.tyglobalist.org/?p=60 We received a letter in response to Pete Martin's article (Coal Nation), from a source that played a major role in the article. It is from Mike Murphy, a farmer who lives in Marissa, Illinois, and whose farm is threatened by the construction of the Prairie State power plant. I felt ... http://blog.tyglobalist.org/?p=59 The Yale Globalist recently selected its new editorial board for the upcoming academic year. Congratulations to the members of the new editorial board. Editor-in-Chief Katharine Kendrick   Managing Editors Maria Blackwood Amila Golic Jesse Marks Pete Martin   Features Editors George Bogden Rishabh Khosla Alex Soble Emma Sokoloff-Rubin   Senior Editors Annie Carney Catherine Cheney JT Kennedy Nathan Tek Emma Vawter   Executive Director Amira Valliani   Publisher Gemma Bloemen   Assistant Publisher Brad Schecter   Production Editor Dana Wu   Events Planners Hayeon Lee Alice Walton   Web Editor Oscar ... http://blog.tyglobalist.org/?p=58 Last week, the Romanian capital welcomed the leaders of 26 countries for the 20th annual NATO summit. One of the week's many happenings raised eyebrows: Greece's vote against the membership bid by Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Image details: Leaders Gather For NATO Summit served by picapp.com There has been ... http://blog.tyglobalist.org/?p=56