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2025 SPICE/NCTA Virtual East Asia Seminar for High School Teachers: Now Accepting Applications!
Free virtual seminar for high school teachers in California offers insights and expertise on East Asia and the Asian American experience.
Rethinking Racial Formations and Race Relations in Singapore: A Conversation with Alisha Cherian
APARC 2024-25 Predoctoral Fellow Alisha Cherian studies race relations in Southeast Asia, focusing on the lived experience of Indian Singaporeans and their interactions with state-defined racial categories.
Amichai Magen hunts for the pony in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
Political Science scholar Yoshiko Herrera examines how identity shapes the causes, conduct, and consequences of war, especially in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The award recognizes Shin’s contributions to advancing Korean studies and strengthening U.S.-Korea relations through scholarship and bridge-building.
Reflections on the film and recommendations for its use in U.S. schools
FSI Senior Fellow Alberto Díaz-Cayeros explores how demographic collapse, epidemic disease, and colonial rent extraction were interconnected in Tepetlaoztoc, a city-state in the Acolhua Kingdom of the Aztec Empire.
It became clear, certainly by 1978, that educational exchanges, access to training, and export controls — these were going to be litmus tests of U.S.-China relations.
Mosbacher Director Kathryn Stoner reflects on the Center's 2024 activities and accomplishments and looks ahead toward the new year.
The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law’s (CDDRL) Leadership Academy for Development (LAD) is embarking on a new partnership with the International Finance Corporation to educate senior leaders on infrastructure policy, governance, and public-private partnerships.
Approximately 20 percent of Japanese women are likely to choose a different surname if a dual-surname option for married couples is introduced, according to the latest survey of the Stanford Japan Barometer. A new installment in the Asahi Shimbun’s GLOBE+ series features these and other Japan Barometer survey results.
The US-China relationship in 2025 is expected to remain largely unchanged from the status quo established in 2008, despite changes in leadership and global circumstances. While improved relations could benefit China's economy and help address internal issues, the risks associated with reengagement and necessary reforms, in the eyes of the Chinese leadership, outweigh the benefits. Meanwhile in Washington, China's policy doesn't seem to be a pressing concern as Trump is more focused on domestic affairs.
López, a political leader and prominent advocate for democracy in Venezuela, shared his vision for uniting global efforts to champion freedom and push back against authoritarianism with a Stanford audience on December 2, 2024.
During the 2024 Wesson Lecture, former political prisoner and democracy activist Vladimir Kara-Murza called for transparency and accountability from within Russia and more support from the international community to establish and grow Russian democracy.
The award is presented annually to an exceptional individual who has devoted his/her research and academic life to the solution of a strategic global challenge and whose research, public action, and ideas had transformative impacts on global policy formation and a proven contribution to the welfare of a significant number of communities worldwide.
Instructor Meiko Kotani reflects on Stanford e-Bunri, SPICE’s collaboration with Seibu Gakuen Bunri Junior and Senior High School in Sayama City, Saitama Prefecture.
The historical and sociopolitical contexts of President Yoon’s declaration of martial law and its aftermath
Economist Huixia Wang, a visiting scholar at APARC, discusses her research into healthcare economics and the reverberating effects of poor healthcare access on health outcomes across generations.
A week after the politically divisive U.S. 2024 presidential election, Stanford students living in Arroyo house gathered in their dorm lounge with Stanford political scientist Didi Kuo to explore factors driving polarization in America.
Sponsored by Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, the annual Shoresntein Award promotes excellence in journalism on the Asia-Pacific region and carries a cash prize of US $10,000. The 2025 award will honor an Asian news media outlet or a journalist whose work has primarily appeared in Asian news media. Nomination entries are due by February 15, 2025.
We are concerned and outraged to learn of the state-sponsored abduction of 2022 Fisher Family Summer Fellow Jesús Armas by agents of the Maduro regime in Venezuela. We urge the regime to release him from detention immediately.
December 31, 2024 marks the 60-year anniversary since Congress ended the Bracero Program.
This quarter we welcomed our first cohort of Skyline Scholars. The new Skyline Scholars Program is designed to empower and elevate distinguished scholars and public figures whose expertise focus on China's economy and institutions.
CDDRL Postdoctoral Fellow Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki explores how identity politics — strategies of political mobilization based on group identity — shape the development of new political parties, particularly those trying to establish themselves in a competitive environment.