Category: Regional Politics in Asia
Bruce Dickson on Xi Jinping
The above photo is from the 18th Chinese Party Congress in November 2012. Bruce Dickson is professor of political science and international affairs and chair of the political science department at t... Read More
Mike Mochizuki on Japan’s Snap Election
The photo, from July of 2016, shows Yuriko Koike campaigning for Tokyo’s special gubernatorial election. Mike M. Mochizuki holds the Japan-U.S. Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur at the E... Read More
Jae H. Ku on North Korean defectors
Jae H. Ku is the Director of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS. Before joining the U.S.-Korea Institute, he was the Director of the Human Rights in North Korea Project at Freedom House. Dr. Ku holds ... Read More
Dr. Sumit Ganguly on the India-China Border Dispute at the Doklam Plateau
Sumit Ganguly is a Professor of Political Science, holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations. Professor Ganguly is also a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research In... Read More
Milan Vaishnav on BJP after victory in Uttar Pradesh
Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such... Read More
Willy Lam on the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election
Willy Lam is a veteran observer and analyst of Chinese foreign policy and domestic politics and author of numerous books on China. He is an Adjunct Professor at the History Department and the Center f... Read More
Katharine Moon on President Park Geun-hye’s corruption scandal
Katharine (Kathy) H.S. Moon is a professor of Political Science and the Wasserman Chair of Asian Studies at Wellesley College, where she has taught since 1993. She is also a nonresident senior fellow ... Read More
Stephan Haggard on North Korean refugees: the Chinese “underground railroad,” integration into South Korea, and the future of U.S. policy
"The Yalu River seen from the Yunfeng dam with a railway bridge and a factory. North Korea on the left, China on the right." by Jacky Lee — Panoramio. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons ... Read More