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Remembering Alexei Navalny, Russia's Unwavering Opposition Leader
Scholars from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies share their memories and perspectives of Navalny, who died while incarcerated in a Russian penal colony.
Slovak President Optimistic about Democracy, but Warns about Russian Misinformation
During a visit to FSI, Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová reminded the Stanford community that the stakes of the war in Ukraine are high and will impact democracies far beyond Eastern and Central Europe.
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Kumi Naidoo's Call to Action
At the 2024 Payne Distinguished Lecture, Kumi Naidoo highlighted how creative storytelling blended with scientific evidence can move societies toward longer-term solutions for climate change, social injustice, and war.
A team of Stanford researchers has determined that patients taking GLP-1 receptors used to lower blood glucose levels may not need to take a pause before surgery.
The Korea Program at APARC brought together celebrity chefs Judy Joo and Ryu Soo-young along with esteemed academics to explore the global ascendance of Korean cuisine and consider how food traverses national and cultural boundaries.
A new Stanford Internet Observatory report examines how to improve the CyberTipline pipeline from dozens of interviews with tech companies, law enforcement and the nonprofit that runs the U.S. online child abuse reporting system.
According to Eugene Finkel, the Kenneth H. Keller Associate Professor of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, Russia’s recurrent attacks against Ukraine can be traced to issues of identity and security.
Each spring, second year students in the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy spread out across the globe to work on projects affecting communities from Sierra Leone to Mongolia, New Zealand, and beyond.
Gombojavyn Zandanshatar, Chairman of the State Great Khural (the Parliament of Mongolia) and a former CDDRL visiting scholar, reports that a second National Deliberative Poll in his country has successfully led to a new Constitutional Amendment.
Stanford students got hands-on with Korean cuisine in cooking classes with celebrity chefs Judy Joo and Ryu Soo-young. Hosted by the Korea Program at Shorenstein APARC, the classes followed the conference “Korean Cuisine Gone Global.”
The annual award from the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation recognizes the contributions of researchers and journalists who examine new evidence that advances the health system and the health of Americans.
Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow Norman Joshua examines how state-society interactions in Indonesia produced an authoritarian political culture, tracing the implications of the country’s enduring legacy of militarization.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and CDDRL alumna Oleksandra Matviichuk delivered the S.T. Lee Lecture on April 15 and spoke of the broader implications of Russia’s actions in Ukraine and for the world if the West does not continue to support Ukraine in its fight against Russia.
The Parliament of Mongolia is convening the Trans-Altai Sustainability Dialogue on April 25-26, 2024, along with Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Ban Ki-moon Foundation For a Better Future as co-hosts. The forum will bring together experts across academia, civil society, and government from the United States and Asia to share policy pathways and best practices to strengthen the capacity of institutions to achieve the targets for Sustainable Development Goal 16 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Environmental experts examined the challenge of sustainable restoration and preserving environmental quality for the future of Gazans and residents of the region in the wake of the Israel-Hamas War.
Following the disappointing performance of South Korea’s ruling People Power Party in the April 10 parliamentary elections, Stanford sociologist and APARC Director Gi-Wook Shin analyzes the implications of the election outcomes for President Yoon’s domestic and foreign policies and Korean society and economy.
Lisa Blaydes, Stanford Professor of Political Science and FSI Senior Fellow, explains how regime policies in Kuwait have helped longstanding elite families maintain their social prestige in the contemporary era.
In a new study by members of Josh Salomon's Prevention Policy Modeling Lab, the researchers found profound racial and ethnic disparities that are stalling overall progress against TB.