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Katherine Casey’s research finds that while community nominations can surface strong entrants, barriers to candidacy remain.
Speaking on the latest episode of the APARC Briefing series, China expert and veteran diplomat Susan Thornton argues for managing expectations of the summit between the two presidents, rethinking the U.S.-China technology competition, and understanding Beijing’s long game on Taiwan.
The new initiative from the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law connects research with frontline efforts to address democratic backsliding across Latin America.
The Stanford political scientist earned this honor for his work on political polarization.
Anna Grzymala-Busse examines how conceptual choices shape conclusions about Europe’s political development and fragmentation.
Professor Emeritus Steve Thorpe reflects on his years at SPICE from the late 1970s to the 1980s.
Eyck Freymann joins Colin Kahl on the World Class podcast to explain his plan to bring America's military strength, economic leverage, technological leadership, and diplomatic influence together into a single, coherent plan to curtail China's ambitions toward Taiwan.
Sponsored by Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, the 25th annual Shorenstein Journalism Award honors Mahtani for her exemplary investigations into the erosion of democracy in Hong Kong and China's growing global influence.
The Kate Ho ASHEcon Medal honors the nation's brightest emerging health economists.
APARC Visiting Scholar Seok-Jin Eom, professor of public administration at Seoul National University, offers a history of Korean public administration, arguing that PA knowledge was not simply transplanted from the United States but was actively indigenized by Korean scholars who adapted foreign theories to meet the country’s evolving historical and political demands. Rather than accepting the prevailing “blank slate” narrative, Eom reveals a dynamic intellectual history shaped by colonial legacies, geopolitics, and the agency of Korean academics.
Speaking on the APARC Briefing video series, University of Chicago sociologist Kimberly Kay Hoang examines the architecture of global capital and how corruption discourse is transforming governance and political order in Asia and the United States.
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.
Miriam Golden presents a new framework linking state capacity and fiscal capacity to reelection patterns across countries.
CDDRL Research-in-Brief [4-minute read]
Political theorist Tomer Persico traces the surprising liberal roots of the Israeli right, and argues that liberalism's current crisis stems from its success, not its failure.
Celebrating the students recognized as top honorees and honorable mention recipients for 2025.
Scholars Daniel Keleman and Hanna Folsz examine the defeat of Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz Party and the implications for Hungary and Europe.
In this editorial, SHP's Michelle Mello and colleagues write that involving patients in AI governance is both feasible and beneficial.
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.
CDDRL Research-in-Brief [4-minute read]
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.