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Emma Moore is a senior IR concentrator with a focus in Latin America. Her semester abroad in Cuba fuels her research interests in political symbolism, military anthropology, and diplomacy. She has also explored issues of HIV and public health during an internship with UNICEF last summer. She enjoys writing creative nonfiction and salsa dancing in her free time.

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As American forces hand off control to the Afghan National Army and state police, women, as half of the population, should have an equal role in the transition process that will define society and politics to a significant degree. However, Afghan wo...

The Imperative of Involving Afghan Women

As American forces hand off control to the Afghan National Army and state police, women, as half of the population, should have an equal role in the transition process that will define society and politics to a significant degree. However, Afghan wo...

Movies about the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are scarce when compared to the volume of World War I and II and Vietnam-era films. The ones that are have received a smaller reception (The Messenger, Brothers, Green Zone, Body of Lies), with a few excepti...

The Politicization of War Films

Movies about the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are scarce when compared to the volume of World War I and II and Vietnam-era films. The ones that are have received a smaller reception (The Messenger, Brothers, Green Zone, Body of Lies), with a few excepti...

As the United States’ military involvement in Afghanistan and, to some extent, Iraq comes to an end, a new dynamic is forming between veterans and civilians. The emerging military-civilian divide in the United States is exacerbated by disparate com...

Veterans Post Conflict

As the United States’ military involvement in Afghanistan and, to some extent, Iraq comes to an end, a new dynamic is forming between veterans and civilians. The emerging military-civilian divide in the United States is exacerbated by disparate com...

The physical evolution of Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft. Recently, the release of Assassin’s Creed: Unity by Ubisoft has again sparked critique and criticism relating to the role of women in video games. The game has “no playable characters that are...

Needed: Pixelated Role Models for Women

The physical evolution of Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft. Recently, the release of Assassin’s Creed: Unity by Ubisoft has again sparked critique and criticism relating to the role of women in video games. The game has “no playable characters that are...

Among Havana’s 1950s cars, bikes and motorcycle sidecars, one occasionally hears the roll and smash of skateboards, a mix of Cuban and international — frequently American — influences. In Cuba, they are known as “patinadores” although their...

Skaters in Cuba

Among Havana’s 1950s cars, bikes and motorcycle sidecars, one occasionally hears the roll and smash of skateboards, a mix of Cuban and international — frequently American — influences. In Cuba, they are known as “patinadores” although their...

A state-subsidized “agro.” “No es fácil” – it isn’t easy – is the go-to phrase Cubans use to explain just about any life difficulty. Unseen by most people visiting the island, the two-currency system imposed by the Cuban govern...

Dos Monedas

A state-subsidized “agro.” “No es fácil” – it isn’t easy – is the go-to phrase Cubans use to explain just about any life difficulty. Unseen by most people visiting the island, the two-currency system imposed by the Cuban govern...

It is impossible to analyze Cuba’s political moves without also mentioning the United States’ reaction. Since the 1959 revolution, the United States has had a tendency to define its international policy directly at odds with Cuba’s. This held t...

CELAC Puts Cuba Back On The World Stage

It is impossible to analyze Cuba’s political moves without also mentioning the United States’ reaction. Since the 1959 revolution, the United States has had a tendency to define its international policy directly at odds with Cuba’s. This held t...

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