Professor Minxin Pei on his book “The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”
Professor Ian Baird on the Mekong Dam Region
Ian G. Baird is a Professor of Geography and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He conducts most of his research in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. He has a wide range of int... Read More
John Lechner on the Wagner Group
John Lechner graduated from the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. At Georgetown, John focused on security issues in Central Africa an... Read More
Dr. Kelly Greenhill on the Weaponization of Migration in South and Southeast Asia
Kelly Greenhill, Ph.D., is a professor of Political Science and International Relations at Tufts University, with a secondary appointment at the Tisch College for Civic Life, and a Visiting Professor ... Read More
Professor Diana Eck on India’s Kumbh Mela
Dr. Diana Eck is a Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. She serves in the Departments of Religion... Read More
Claire E. Reade on the Second Trump Administration’s Tariffs
Claire E. Reade provides clients with strategic counsel regarding issues affecting international trade and investment, including in the relationship between the US and China. She also advises clients ... Read More
Admiral Harry B. Harris on the United States’ Indo-Pacific Strategy
Admiral Harry B. Harris, with over 40 years of service in the U.S. Navy, most recently served as U.S. Ambassador to South Korea from 2018 to 2021. Before his ambassadorship, he commanded several major... Read More
Professor Andrew Yeo on South Korea’s Change in Leadership
Dr. Andrew Yeo is a senior fellow and the SK-Korea Foundation Chair at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Asia Policy Studies. He is also a professor of politics at The Catholic Universi... Read More
Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd on Myanmar’s Ongoing Crisis
Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd is a faculty member at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, where she researches and teaches on U.S.-Myanmar relations, Southeast Asian security dynamics, economic-securi... Read More
Professor Brudny on Russia’s Evolving Identity: From the Soviet Union to Putin’s Era
Yitzhak Brudny is a professor at the department of political science and history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main fields of interest include nationalism and ethnic conflicts; social mov... Read More