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The Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab, in partnership with Brazil’s Federal Labor Prosecution Office (FLPO), is developing Chain-Link, a new data-driven technical tool to map exploitative supply chains.
A long-running collaboration between CISAC co-director Scott Sagan and Dartmouth professor Ben Valentino offers new insight into how real-world information environments shape nuclear decision-making.
In this timely study, SHP's Lee Sanders reveals that Medicaid discharges accounted for $119.5 billion—more than half of all pediatric hospital discharges nationwide—a figure the researchers called “striking.”
Goldgeier will serve as ISA President for the 2027–2028 term.
High school student Erin Tsutsui, an alumna of Stanford e-Entrepreneurship Japan, reflects on forging friendships across Japan, embracing new world perspectives through thoughtful discussion, and transforming family heritage into a youth-led peace initiative via empathy and social innovation.
Speaking just one day after deadly clashes between Thailand and Cambodia reignited along their shared border, Thai Ambassador Dr. Suriya Chindawongse joined APARC’s Southeast Asia Program to explain how a fragile truce, shifting U.S. tariffs, emerging semiconductor opportunities, and a surge in online scam syndicates are shaping ASEAN’s future.
Byongjin Ahn offers an insider’s look at how President Lee Jae-myung’s early leadership is reshaping South Korea’s political order, revealing the tensions between pragmatic governance, fragile liberal norms, and the country’s emerging AI-driven strategic ambitions.
Eurasia Group’s David Meale, a former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, reflects on the last 30 years and describes how the two economic superpowers can maintain an uneasy coexistence.
Theara Thun, APARC’s Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fellow on Southeast Asia, investigates how educational systems emerged in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia within the broader context of national recovery and development.
In a CDDRL research seminar, Nate Persily, the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, discussed revelations from the 2024 election and how the 2024 election can forecast the upcoming 2026 midterm election cycle.
Stanford experts discuss the high-stakes scientific, ethical and regulatory challenges behind an emerging science known as “mirror life.”
Dr. Emmanuel Navon, author of “The Star and the Scepter,” explored the enduring tension between realism and idealism in Jewish diplomacy and the paradigm shift following October 7.
The Stanford Daily highlights the groundbreaking educational nonprofit cofounded by Stanford Medicine adjunct professor Piya Sorcar.
The country’s political polarization has metastasized. What can be done?
Former U.S. diplomats Michael McFaul and Susan Rice argued that the second Trump administration is a driver of global democratic recession and is leading the U.S. toward “superpower suicide” at a panel on Monday.
CDDRL Research-in-Brief [3.5-minute read]
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Stoner, the Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and a leading scholar of Russian politics, discusses her career trajectory, areas of current research, and priorities for the years ahead.
A conversation with Marcel Fafchamps as he reflects on the insights, challenges, and evolving institutions that have shaped his decades in development research.
Professor Kim Lane Scheppele offered a clear and urgent account of a growing crisis inside the European Union (EU) during a recent REDS Seminar: the erosion of democracy within some of its own member states.
Almost 500 patients, their relatives and others were killed at al-Fashir's last functioning hospital during the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces' recent takeover of the Sudanese city, the World Health Organization reported. The attack is an example of increasingly targeted and brutal attacks on hospitals, clinics and medical workers during conflict worldwide, a Reuters investigation found.
Stanford sociologist Kiyoteru Tsutsui, director of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Japan Program, evaluates Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's first month in office.
After a three-year pilot, Stanford University’s Israel studies program became permanent with a major endowment from the Koum Family Foundation, Stanford announced on Nov. 18.
Tracing paths from political violence to democratic participation with CDDRL Research Scholar María Ignacia Curiel.
Gerhard Casper Postdoctoral Fellow Ana Paula Pellegrino presented her research on police-led armed illicit groups in Brazil, exploring what distinguishes them and the conditions that enable their formation.