Maria E. Brewer on U.S.-China Competition and Foreign Aid in Africa
Maria E. Brewer on U.S.-China Competition and Foreign Aid in Africa
Former Ambassador Maria E. Brewer is a career Foreign Service Officer who joined the U.S. Department of State in 1996. Her first tour was in Lagos, Nigeria, the posting where, by her own account, she ... Read More
Ruixue Jia on the High-Stakes Culture of China’s Gaokao
Ruixue Jia is a Professor of Economics at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, UCSD, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. She serves as co-editor of the Review of Economics an... Read More
Who Gets to Serve: Shawn Skelly on Transgender Military Service, Readiness, and Belonging
Shawn Skelly is a former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness and a retired U.S. Navy officer. In July 2021, the Senate confirmed her as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rea... Read More
Clayton Swope on the Future of U.S.-China Space Security
Clayton Swope is the deputy director of the Aerospace Security Project and a senior fellow in the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Before j... Read More
The Power of Networks: Xiao Ma on Local Governments and the Political Economy of China’s High-Speed Rail System
Dr. Xiao Ma is an associate professor of political science at the School of Government at Peking University. His research focuses on comparative political institutions, politics of development, and ... Read More
Before Age Three: The Hidden Roots of China’s Human Capital Challenge
Dr. Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. His research... Read More
Cave of my Ancestors: Vishwakarma and the Artisans of Ellora
Dr. Kirin Narayan is the author of seven books, scholarly works on South Asian anthropology and folklore as well as a family memoir, a novel, and a “how about” book on ethnographic writing with ex... Read More
Dr. Aggarwal on the Rise of New Economic Statecraft
Vinod K. Aggarwal is Distinguished Professor and holds the Alann P. Bedford Endowed Chair in the Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also an Affil... Read More
Dr. Tuong Vu on To Lam and Vietnamese Politics
Tuong Vu is Professor in the Political Science and Director of the US-Vietnam Research Center at the University of Oregon. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton University and the National Un... Read More