Professor Minxin Pei on his book “The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”
General Vincent K. Brooks on U.S. Strategy and Alliance Building in the Indo-Pacific
General Vincent K. Brooks is a retired four-star U.S. Army officer who served for more than 42 years. He commanded United States Forces Korea (USFK), the United Nations Command (UNC), and the ROK–U.... Read More
Michael McFaul on his book “Autocrats Vs. Democrats”
Michael McFaul is Director at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in the Department of Political Science, an... Read More
Sumit Ganguly on the Persistence of Conflict in Kashmir
Šumit Ganguly is an American political scientist and a leading scholar of South Asian politics and security. He is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Huntington Program on Strengthening U.S.-India ... Read More
Kathryn March on the Gen Z Uprising in Nepal
Kathryn S. March is a Graduate Professor and Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Feminist/Gender/Sexuality Studies, and Public Affairs at Cornell University, where she has been a faculty member since 1... Read More
Debak Das on the Global Nuclear Order and the Proliferation of Nuclear Delivery Systems
Debak Das is an assistant professor in peace and security at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Denver. His research interests lie at the intersection of intern... Read More
Democracy, Polarization, and Resilience: Taiwan’s 2025 Recalls in Global Perspective
Kharis Templeman is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a lecturer at Stanford University’s Center for East Asian Studies. His research focuses on democratic transitions, comparative ele... Read More
Hussein Banai on the Rationale and Implications of American and Israeli Strikes on Iran
Professor Hussein Banai is an associate professor of international studies at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. His research focuses on i... Read More
Professor Patricio Abinales on Dynastic Feuds in the Philippines
Professor Patricio Abinales grew up on the northwestern side of the Philippine island of Mindanao. He graduated with a degree in History from the University of the Philippines-Diliman (UP), and Ph.D... Read More
Suk-Young Kim on Millennial North Korea: Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance
Suk-Young Kim is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and External Engagement, Head of Theater and Performance Studies, and Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Kim is ... Read More