In this lecture, Professor Okimoto discusses social, economic, political, and demographic challenges facing Japan. He discusses their ramifications and explores possible measures that could help ensure a prosperous future for Japan.
In this lecture, Professor Okimoto discusses the Japan American Security Alliance (JASA). He examines reasons behind its longevity and success as well as short- and long-term prospects for its sustainability
We offer the first large scale, multiple source analysis of the outcome of what may be the most extensive effort to selectively censor human expression ever implemented. To do this, we have devised a system to locate, download, and analyze the content of millions of social media posts originating from nearly 1,400 different social media services all over China before the Chinese government is able to find, evaluate, and censor (i.e., remove from the Internet) the large subset they deem objectionable. Using modern computer-assisted text analytic methods that we adapt and validate in the Chinese language, we compare the substantive content of posts censored to those not censored over time in each of 95 issue areas. Contrary to previous understandings, posts with negative, even vitriolic, criticism of the state, its leaders, and its policies are not more likely to be censored. Instead, we show that the censorship program is aimed at curtailing collective action by silencing comments that represent, reinforce, or spur social mobilization, regardless of content. Censorship is oriented toward attempting to forestall collective activities that are occurring now or may occur in the future -- and, as such, seem to clearly expose government intent, such as examples we offer where sharp increases in censorship presage government action outside the Internet. This is joint work with Jennifer Pan and Molly Roberts.
Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University -- one of 24 with the title of University Professor, Harvard's most distinguished faculty position. He is based in the Department of Government (in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences) and serves as director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. King develops and applies empirical methods in many areas of social science research, focusing on innovations that span the range from statistical theory to practical application.
King received a B.A. from SUNY New Paltz (1980) and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984). His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, the National Institute of Aging, the Global Forum for Health Research, and centers, corporations, foundations, and other federal agencies.
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Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is a Senior Research Scholar and the William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Dr. Lewis is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC), which conducts dialogues with counterparts in China, Russia, and India; a member of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which is best known for setting the "Doomsday Clock"; and a member of Anthropic's Frontier Red Team. From 2022 to 2025, Dr. Lewis was a member of the U.S. Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board.
He is the author of two scholarly books, The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age (MIT Press, 2007) and Paper Tigers: China's Nuclear Posture (International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2014), as well as a novel of speculative fiction, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States (Mariner, 2018). He is also the founder of the Arms Control Wonk blog and co-hosts, with Aaron Stein, the Arms Control Wonk podcast.
Previously, Dr. Lewis was a Distinguished Scholar of Global Security at Middlebury College, a full professor of nonproliferation studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation, and executive director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He also worked in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Dr. Lewis received a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Augustana College and a Ph.D. in Policy Studies from the University of Maryland.
REAP’s efforts to narrow the rural-urban education gap in China over the past five years was recently highlighted in the newspaper of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a legislative advisory group in China with wide influence on national policy.
To read the full article, click here (in Chinese).
In this eighth session of the Forum, former senior government officials and other leading experts from the United States and South Korea will discuss current developments in North Korea and North Korea policy, the future of the U.S.-South Korean alliance, and a strategic vision for Northeast Asia. The session is hosted by the Korean Studies Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, in association with the Sejong Institute, a top South Korean think tank.
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