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University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa sociologist Myungji Yang offers a historical account of South Korea’s far right, arguing that recent reactionary mobilization reflects long-standing Cold War legacies, anti-communism, and conservative political networks. Although South Korea is often viewed as one of Asia’s democratic success stories, Yang suggests that recent political turmoil has revealed how deeply rooted illiberal forces remain.
The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center’s Korea Program welcomes back The Journal of Korean Studies with the publication of Volume 31, Issue 1.
The symposium brought together leading voices in early childhood development from across the world to cultivate connections, share evidence, exchange perspectives, and explore pathways for scaling effective interventions to improve child development in rural China.
Across five Asian health care systems, rapid population aging drives up disease burden, particularly for chronic conditions, even as medical advancements improve outcomes for individual patients, according to a study co-authored by Stanford health economist Karen Eggleston.
Understanding how rulers, elites, and institutional incentives shape long-term political stability with Professor Lisa Blaydes.
Students in the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy program traveled across the globe to work on policy projects addressing AI safety, climate change, public trust in local government, and more.
Yuki Kihara, a Japanese PhD student at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Education, reflects on her experience during a SPICE-supported intensive seminar in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Why feeling uneasy and expecting social rewards can make us more likely to share about political topics online
Working with Professor Diego Zambrano and the Neukom Center for the Rule of Law, Stanford Law and Policy Lab students helped shape a new proposed law to curb politically motivated lawsuits by foreign governments.
CDDRL Research-in-Brief [4-minute read]
Didi Kuo explores how non-programmatic competition is changing the relationship between voters, parties, and democratic institutions.
The Lancet Global Health comment by Ruth Gibson and colleagues calls for reopening the “humanitarian corridor” connecting the Gaza Strip to other Palestinian hospitals for critically ill patients—especially children—who cannot receive proper care in Gaza.
The Asahi Shimbun's GLOBE+ features the latest findings from the Stanford Japan Barometer, a periodic public opinion survey co-developed by Stanford sociologist Kiyoteru Tsutsui, which unveils nuanced preferences and evolving attitudes of the Japanese public on political, economic, and social issues. Its recent experiment revealed that Japanese people have become wary about accepting foreign workers in recent years. Political influences are behind this trend.
A Stanford Japan Barometer experiment reveals that invoking Japan's energy dependence on Middle Eastern oil, rather than the Japan-U.S. alliance, increases the Japanese public’s support of deploying the Self-Defense Forces to the Strait of Hormuz, but does not overcome the underlying opposition to military action in the crisis.
The emotional experience of social media may depend on what you do first
In an experiment during Japan’s February 2026 Lower House election, policy stances dominated AI chatbots’ voting guidance, and left-leaning stances caused five AI models to recommend the Japanese Communist Party. The results are driven by which sources models can access and have significant implications for democratic systems as they grapple with the future of elections in the AI era.
Yuto Kimura, a 2021 Stanford e-Japan Award Winner and 2026 graduate of Waseda University, reflects on the enduring takeaways from his experience in Stanford e-Japan.
The Class of 2026-27 will spend the next year and a half conducting original thesis research on democracy, development, and the rule of law — from post-Soviet privatization to the politics of interfaith marriage in India.
The latest findings of the Stanford Japan Barometer show that the Japanese public’s opinion on immigration depends heavily on applicants' skills, language ability, and country of origin, and on whether politicians emphasize economic benefits or stoke security and cultural anti-immigration rhetoric.
At the 2026 Oksenberg Conference, scholars and foreign policy experts assessed how Indo-Pacific powers are coping with a less predictable United States as China pursues selective leadership and Russia exploits Western divisions.
Former Silicon Valley Bank CEO Kenneth Wilcox draws on his own experience launching SVB in China to illustrate how Western companies repeatedly fail in China because they rely on mental models built for home — assumptions about business, government, and rule of law that simply don't apply in the Chinese market.
CDDRL Research-in-Brief [4-minute read]
WATCH | Towards an Effective and Universal Convention on Crimes Against Humanity (ABILA Webinar)
This panel, featuring Tom Dannenbaum, briefly discussed the outcomes of the Preparatory Committee for the Crimes Against Humanity Convention, held from January 19-30, and the work of the ABILA Study Group on Crimes Against Humanity, which published a series of 14 proposals and position papers submitted to the Preparatory Committee during its first session.
How Not to Deal with Allies
The United States has fought four major wars against countries in the broader Middle East region since 1990. In three, America had support from a group of allies and partners.