Graduate Students Tackle Global Policy Challenges Through Hands-on Fieldwork
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.
Eyck Freymann joins Colin Kahl on the World Class podcast to explain his plan to bring America's military strength, economic leverage, technological leadership, and diplomatic influence together into a single, coherent plan to curtail China's ambitions toward Taiwan.
Sponsored by Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, the 25th annual Shorenstein Journalism Award honors Mahtani for her exemplary investigations into the erosion of democracy in Hong Kong and China's growing global influence.
APARC Visiting Scholar Seok-Jin Eom, professor of public administration at Seoul National University, offers a history of Korean public administration, arguing that PA knowledge was not simply transplanted from the United States but was actively indigenized by Korean scholars who adapted foreign theories to meet the country’s evolving historical and political demands. Rather than accepting the prevailing “blank slate” narrative, Eom reveals a dynamic intellectual history shaped by colonial legacies, geopolitics, and the agency of Korean academics.
Speaking on the APARC Briefing video series, University of Chicago sociologist Kimberly Kay Hoang examines the architecture of global capital and how corruption discourse is transforming governance and political order in Asia and the United States.
Hakeem Jefferson, assistant professor of political science at Stanford, is at work on a new project that interrogates exactly how “homosociality” operates and shapes men’s political attitudes and social behaviors.
Professor Konstantin Sonin explores the power of misinformation in shaping public perception and political decision-making in a recent Rethinking European Development and Security (REDS) seminar.
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.
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.
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.
