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Why do authoritarian regimes charge political opponents with non-political crimes when they can levy charges directly related to opponents' political activism? Professor Pan presents her newest research during a Fall 2024 SCCEI event.
The U.S.–China Co-Lab on Climate Solutions is now accepting applications for the spring 2025 session.
Research by CDDRL’s Einstein-Moos Postdoctoral Fellow Julieta Casas underscores how firing practices within patronage systems significantly shaped divergent trajectories of bureaucratic development across the Americas.
FSI's Visiting Fellow in Israel Studies Reflects on What Lies Ahead for Israel and the Middle East
The October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas has already indelibly altered Israel and the Middle East, and will continue to reverberate for decades to come, says Amichai Magen, a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
In a recent visit by a delegation from Japan's Embassy to the United States and Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco, Ambassador Shigeo Yamada and Stanford experts discussed pressing issues affecting U.S.-Japan relations, regional security, and the international legal order. Hosted by APARC's Japan Program, the visit highlighted the role of academic institutions in informing policy and global cooperation.
SCCEI's newest research program, China Labor, Income and Population (CLIP), focuses on key areas essential for understanding the complexities of China’s labor market and its role in the Chinese economy.
A research team led by Hoover Kleinheinz Fellow Valentin Bolotnyy, an affiliated scholar at CDDRL, has just secured a Stanford Impact Labs grant worth $786,100 to discover ways to reduce rates of involuntary mental health hospitalization.
Fukuyama joins a cohort of prominent public servants whose scholarship will contribute to the Academy’s mission to advance government practices.
The following reflection is a guest post written by Jason Shim, alumnus of the Sejong Scholars Program, which is currently accepting student applications until November 1, 2024.
A new book by APARC Visiting Scholar Michael Beeman offers a timely analysis of the shift in United States' foreign trade policy, examines its recent choices to “walk out” on the principles that had defined the global trade system it had created, and offers recommendations for a redefined and more productive trade policy strategy.
Bolotnyy, an economist, affiliated scholar with CDDRL's Deliberative Democracy Lab, and Kleinheinz Fellow at the Hoover Institution, has joined California governor Gavin Newsom’s Council of Economic Advisors. His appointment became effective on August 22, 2024.
Stanford Graduate Students Advance Research on China with Aid from SCCEI 2024 Summer Research Grant
SCCEI awarded competitive research funding to six Stanford Ph.D. candidates to advance their empirical research on China. This summer's grant recipients are: Cody Abbey, Alicia Chen, Safari Fang, Qianmin Hu, Naiyu Jiang, and Victoria Liu.
According to the co-authors of a perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the use of AI diagnostic tools by medical practitioners can lead to unexpected financial burdens for their patients.
Open Faculty Positions in Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Korean Studies, and Taiwan Studies
Stanford University seeks candidates for a new faculty position in Japanese politics and foreign policy, a faculty position in Korean Studies, and a new faculty position on Taiwan. All three appointments will be at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and affiliated with Shorenstein APARC.
Across campus, the Stanford community is preparing for the November election and beyond with an array of educational, civic engagement, and get-out-the-vote efforts.
As policymakers, health-care practitioners, and technologists pursue the application of AI and machine learning (ML) algorithms in health care, this policy brief underscores the need for health equity research and highlights the limitations of employing technical “fixes” to address deep-seated health inequities.
The Honorable Yo Osumi, Consul General of Japan in San Francisco, makes opening comments.
The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law welcomes applications from pre-doctoral students at the write-up stage and from post-doctoral scholars working in any of the four program areas of democracy, development, evaluating the efficacy of democracy promotion, and rule of law.
Dr. Harvey directed the Science Program at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Arms Control from 1989 to 1995.
A new installment of the Asahi Shimbun’s GLOBE+ series highlights Stanford Japan Barometer findings about Japanese public opinion on recognizing same-sex unions and legalizing a dual-surname option for married couples. Co-developed by Stanford sociologist Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Dartmouth College political scientist Charles Crabtree, the public opinion survey tracks evolving Japanese attitudes on political, economic, and social issues and unveils how question framing changes the results of public opinion polls.
Held at Stanford University on October 10-11, 2024, the third annual Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue will unite social science researchers, scientists, policymakers, and emerging leaders from Stanford University and the Asia-Pacific region to accelerate resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
Stanford Health Policy's Michelle Mello discusses how the law, artificial intelligence, and the COVID-19 pandemic have shaped health care in this Q&A with The Regulatory Review.
In the new Netflix documentary, What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates, Jeff Hancock speaks to the ethical dilemmas and other challenges of AI.