Professor Minxin Pei on his book “The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”
Jon Mitchell on the Environmental and Humanitarian Damages Caused by the US and Japanese Militaries in the Pacific
Jon Mitchell is a British journalist and author based in Japan. In 2015, he received the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan's Freedom of the Press Lifetime Achievement Award for his investig... Read More
Ulrike Schaede on Japanese Startups and Her Book “The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why It Matters”
Ulrike Schaede (ウリケ・シェーデ) is director of JFIT and professor of Japanese Business and head of the International Management Track at GPS. Schaede holds a Ph.D. in Japan Studies and Econo... Read More
Kyung Hyun Kim on Squid Game, Class Inequality, & South Korean Film
Prof. Kyung Hyun Kim is a creative writer, a scholar, and a film producer, who is currently a professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, UC Irvine. He has worked with internationally renowned ... Read More
Richard Bush on U.S. “One-China Policy” and the Future of U.S.-Taiwan Relations
Richard Bush is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for East Asia Policy Studies (CEAP) at Brookings. From July 2002 to June 2018, he served as the director of the center, and from 2013 until 20... Read More
Laura Grego on China’s Hypersonic Missile Test
Dr. Laura Grego is a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at MIT’s Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy, on leave from the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Global Security Program, where she is sen... Read More
Tun Myint on Myanmar’s Weaponization of COVID-19
Tun Myint, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Political Science at Carleton College. Professor Myint earned his PhD in 2005 from the joint program of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and... Read More
Sheila Smith on Japan’s Political Transition
Sheila A. Smith, an expert on Japanese politics and foreign policy, is senior fellow for Japan studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is the author of Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Mi... Read More
Stacey Frederick on the Snarling of the Global Supply Chain
Stacey Frederick is the director and a research scientist at the Duke Global Value Chains Center. Her research involves using global value chain (GVC) analysis to identify economic, social and environ... Read More
Manjari Chatterjee Miller on Post-American Afghanistan and India-Pakistan Relations
Manjari Chatterjee Miller is an Associate Professor (with tenure) of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and a Research Associate at the O... Read More