All the Shakespeares
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – (Hamlet, Act II, Scene II) It...
Cadres and Trials – How top Chinese officials get purged
Friday the 13th of May 2016 was a bad day for Ling Jihua. The former top aide to Hu...
FTAs in East Asia: Economic integration or spheres of influence?
In the past few years the rhetorical back and forth between China and the US over economic institutional governance...
Millenials and the Transformation of Jobs
The job landscape is always changing. That is why it might be a good idea to not take your...
Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Robertson
Jeffrey Robertson is an Assistant Professor at Yonsei University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy...
Can Saudi Arabia Avoid Total Collapse?
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is in a bit of a pickle. 90% of their revenue comes from oil,...
Refugees and their Mental Health in the Welfare State
Since the end of 2014, Europe has experienced an increased influx of irregular migrants matched only by migration flows...
Water, the Next Iraqi Problem
For years, Iraq has suffered a water scarcity crisis that has been exacerbated by poor domestic governance, an uncooperative...
K-Hip Hop: Searching for authentic Koreanness
Type ‘Korean hip hop’ into Google Search and out comes 3,110,000 results—a subreddit dedicated to the genre, Youtube, 8tracks,...
Towards an EU Global Strategy?
As I am writing these words, the European External Action Service (EEAS), which is the European Union’s (EU) diplomatic...