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Scholars convened by the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law’s Program on Arab Reform and Development identify six ways the conflict is testing the limits of Arab states' alliances, economic ambitions, and prospects for reform.
Scholars from FSI offer insights into the war between Iran and U.S.-Israel forces, and the risk of the conflict expanding beyond the Middle East.
At Stanford University, APARC’s Japan Program convened industry leaders, creators, and heritage-based family business successors to examine how Japan’s film, anime, music, and traditional crafts industries sustain global relevance and expand their international appeal through innovation, localization, and intergenerational continuity.
UCLA scholar reflects on history, legitimacy, and the prospects for two states at the Jan Koum Israel Studies Program’s annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture.
Adrienne LeBas explores whether social intermediaries with strong state capacity can help build tax revenue.
Dr. Okimoto served for decades as the Principal Investigator and speaker for multiple U.S.–Japan-focused projects for SPICE.
Isabel Salovaara, APARC predoctoral fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, studies how high-stakes entrance examinations in India and the private tutoring industry that has evolved around them shape youth aspirations, identities, and state relations.
Watch Stanford sociologist Gi-Wook Shin discuss his book, The Four Talent Giants, on the Center for Strategic and International Studies' video podcast, The Impossible State. Shin introduces a framework that explains how Japan, Australia, China, and India became economic powerhouses and what lessons these Asia-Pacific "talent giants" offer to other nations as they face increasingly fierce global competition for talent in the AI era.
“We will not give up”: Ukrainian leaders mark four years of resistance against Russian invasion
Addressing the Bechtel Conference Center, leaders rejected the prospect of territorial concessions, saying that Ukrainians “will not give up” on their country.
A transcript of Stephens's address, titled "Israel Studies Can Redeem Academia," has been published in SAPIR Journal.
From parliament to regional government to independent media, alumni of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law’s Strengthening Ukrainian Democracy and Development Program are implementing reform initiatives under wartime conditions.
In the first of a new quarterly series of events, scholars from the Freeman Spogli Institute evaluated recent developments in world affairs, and offered an outlook for 2026.
CDDRL Research-in-Brief [3.5-minute read]
H.R. McMaster and Jake Sullivan join Colin Kahl on the World Class podcast to break down the 2025 National Security Strategy and discuss how questions around Venezuela, Iran, Russia, China, Ukraine, and U.S. partnerships with Europe may shape the rest of 2026.
In a conversation hosted by Stanford in Government, political science professor James Fearon argued that interpersonal violence, not war, imposes the heaviest social costs.
No longer insulated from statecraft, corporations have been thrust onto the front lines of geopolitical rivalry, while governance structures have not caught up, cautions Stanford Law Professor Curtis Milhaupt in a keynote speech delivered at the 2026 Corporate Governance Conference.
Can AI chatbots reliably tell you whether a political claim is true or false? And if not, what would it take to make them trustworthy fact-checkers?
Lucan Way examines the structural relationship between state resource concentration and democratic outcomes, using Russia as a central case while situating it within broader comparative patterns.
Authors Hongbin Li and Ruixue Jia sit down with podcast host Peter Lorentzen to discuss their new book The Highest Exam on the New Books Network Podcast.
In an unprecedented collaboration, Stanford's Deliberative Democracy Lab has spearheaded the first-ever Industry-Wide Forum, a cross-industry effort putting everyday people at the center of decisions about AI agents.
In a new APARC Briefing explainer, APARC and Japan Program Director Kiyoteru Tsutsui analyzes how Takaichi secured a landmark supermajority in a landslide election win for her party and what this outcome means for Japan's fiscal policy, constitutional change, its relationship with China, and its alliance with the United States.
Former ambassadors discuss statecraft, autocracy versus democracy, and the future of liberal internationalism in an era of geopolitical upheaval
Former Governor of the Bank of Israel Karnit Flug examines growth, governance, and the structural risks facing Israel.
In this video, Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert discusses choosing a model type to evaluate a medical decision, emphasizing the importance of considering the underlying process.