Capstone Haikus
I’ve been happy to see the revival in recent years of Capstone haikus, one of my favorite unofficial Fletcher traditions. Finals week is a stressful time, and for graduating students, the push to finish the Capstone adds an extra layer of anxiety (as well as likely removing several hours of sleep) to an already fraught period. As students approached the finish line over the past few weeks, many shared these Capstone encapsulations in haiku form on the social list:
Caliphate Amorphous: What Explains the Success of ISIS’ Global Network?
Syria, Iraq.
Franchises on franchises.
It’s getting messy.
Defending Defenders: Risk and Vulnerability Assessments in Human Rights Protection Mechanisms
Defend human rights?
you might be dead in LatAm,
the law might care, ish.
Credibility Assessment in Refugee Status Determination: Practice and Challenges Under an Evolving Protection System
Oh, language barrier!
Refugees don’t lie much,
be nice to them, please
Learning Peace: Monitoring and Evaluation of UN Peace Operations
Organizations
Don’t learn when politics and
M&E both suck
Law as a Tool of Patriarchy: The Slow Violence of Rape Laws in India
This was depressing
The law is patriarchal
as is its application
Motivations, Violations, and Accountability: Analyzing the Evolution of the Rohingya Crisis
Burmese government:
“Trust us, we know human rights”
Everyone else: “no”
The Crisis of Liberalism and the Advent of the Reactionary: An Analysis of a Resurgent Political Narrative
Liberalism,
Take a good look at yourself.
Times are a-changing…
Children No More: Organizational Responses to Child Marriage in Kutupalong-Balukhali Megacamp
Child marriage happens –
But have organizations
Done anything yet?
Grid Security for the Twenty-First Century: Enhancing Resiliency and Prosperity with Distributed Generation
Centralized is dumb
Check out what Germany does
Wind won’t cause cancer
Challenges and Prescriptions for the Japan-Russia Economic Cooperation
We have met often
I gave you many presents
You never say Да
(From Shinzo Abe to Vladimir Putin)
Assessing Gains and Losses in the Iran-Saudi Arabia Irregular War in Yemen
Iran and Saudi
F***ing Yemen over big-time
And few people care
Offshore Wind Energy in Scotland: A Financial, Technological, and Policy Review
Offshore wind power
or onshore turbines? Scotland
has both. Cheers to that! 🍻
Carbon Pricing in Restructured Electricity Markets
A carbon price is
always efficient, but state
subsidies are not
CARICOM at 45: A Reform Report
The Caribbean:
It’s got 99 problems
But beaches ain’t one.
Comparing Approaches of Massachusetts and New York to Maximizing the Economic Benefits of Offshore Wind
Offshore Wind is cool
Plan/invest to win more jobs
States: collaborate!
Backlash to the Belt and Road: Where has China’s Belt and Road Initiative Inspired Negative Reactions, Why, and is China Correcting Course?
Protests, bombs, and debt
China sucks at soft power
But they are learning
WTO Legal Reform: The Need for Revisiting the Treatment Accorded to China as a Non-Market Economy in Trade Remedies
China, WTO needs you
U.S., E.U., China please behave
WTO be great again
Explaining Low-Level International Terrorist Activity in Morocco
Morocco is safe!
Terrorists must beware of
Spies and surveillance
The Institutional Memory of War: Assessing the Conditions that Enable or Prevent Cyclical Warfare
Why is mass warfare,
Occurring ev’ry eighty years::
Average Male Lifespan
Narrating Victory: Khalifa Haftar’s Strategic Framing in Libya’s Internal Conflict
Libya is a mess
Narratives are powerful
Haftar wants control
Migration Policy in an Age of Populism: A Critique of the EU Approach to Migration Management
Migration is fine
Populism is not fine
Get it together
Internally Displaced Persons: The Case for International Law as a Protective Tool
With no border crossed
International law may
Be your only hope?
Attraction Undermined: Examining Russian Soft Power and Levers of Influence in Ukraine
A bear trampled me
He says he wants to be friends
It’s better that way.
An Assessment of Adaptation Policies in the Mekong Delta
Waters rise faster
Vietnam and The Mekong
How to live with change
Calling a Shocked Nation to Action: Bush, Obama, and Presidential Crisis Rhetoric
Bush simple, stirring,
No drama ‘Bama; demo-
cracy may be f**t