Prior to traveling to China, I wrote about China from cultural, economic and political perspectives. The GBL 200: China’s Economy Today course brought together students from several disciplines, and when writing assignments we integrated our own unique sources of knowledge. Though GBL 200 focused on economic themes, economics is made from analysis of several subjects, […]
Applying theory to the U.S.-China trade war
In the second semester of my second year, I was in my penultimate course for my International Relations major, POL 326: Approaches to International Relations. We had studied realism, liberalism, green theory, feminist theory and how research about IR is carried out. Our final project was a research paper applying a theory to a case […]


