Hibakusha: Contextualizing Japan’s Relationship with Nuclear Radiation
Introduction To Japan’s Relationship with Nuclear Radiation Across history, Japan remains a tragically unique case as the only country to fully experience the actual cost […]
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The Global Political Youth Movement: A Fight for Rights, Justice, and Democracy
Each generation is placed in uncharted waters and at the frontlines of human innovation and progress. Born into and grown under a society created by […]
A Kingdom without a King: The disappearance of Kim Jong Un and its implications
The global spread of the coronavirus continues to instill fear and panic. However, we have to brace ourselves for another issue that might have significant […]
The Enemy of our Enemy is our Future Enemy
When peaceful protests against the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, began in 2011, they were met with violent oppression, which eventually led to the current civil […]
KORUS FTA: An Uncertain Future
One of Donald Trump’s favorite targets on the campaign trail were trade deals. Last fall he said, “We are killing ourselves with trade pacts.” Now […]
Follow the Leader: How aides serve women politicians
It was 2:30 am on June 13th, 1972 when an unlikely group of men – a former Fidel Castro revolutionary Mr. Sturgis, a Miami […]
Deep Sea Mining: Diamond in the rough, or Pandora’s box?
Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary. All are names of explorers famous for reaching places considered unreachable. Peary reached the North Pole in […]
Facing Change: The Americanization of law
It was only a few years ago that Korean law schools were actually four-year undergraduate institutions with a two-year required mentorship at the JRTI – […]
Weighing the Scales: US presidential ballot box for Asia
As both presidential nominees travel across the US in the last weeks before the election, the world will be eagerly awaiting the results on November […]
Coming Full Circle: How far has Obama turned in his Pivot to Asia?
At the outset of President Obama’s first term, a range of new diplomatic initiatives were unveiled, ones meant to establish a distinct break from President […]