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.
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.
The Lancet Global Health comment by Ruth Gibson and colleagues calls for reopening the “humanitarian corridor” connecting the Gaza Strip to other Palestinian hospitals for critically ill patients—especially children—who cannot receive proper care in Gaza.
The Asahi Shimbun's GLOBE+ features the latest findings from the Stanford Japan Barometer, a periodic public opinion survey co-developed by Stanford sociologist Kiyoteru Tsutsui, which unveils nuanced preferences and evolving attitudes of the Japanese public on political, economic, and social issues. Its recent experiment revealed that Japanese people have become wary about accepting foreign workers in recent years. Political influences are behind this trend.
A Stanford Japan Barometer experiment reveals that invoking Japan's energy dependence on Middle Eastern oil, rather than the Japan-U.S. alliance, increases the Japanese public’s support of deploying the Self-Defense Forces to the Strait of Hormuz, but does not overcome the underlying opposition to military action in the crisis.
In an experiment during Japan’s February 2026 Lower House election, policy stances dominated AI chatbots’ voting guidance, and left-leaning stances caused five AI models to recommend the Japanese Communist Party. The results are driven by which sources models can access and have significant implications for democratic systems as they grapple with the future of elections in the AI era.
