OULU, FINLAND: The City of Black and White
In late August I woke up at 5am to go jogging before my bike ride through empty streets to...
A Rocky Identity: Power struggle for the seas and our identities
In recent years, tensions between Asian countries over hotly contested waters, rocks and manmade islands have become impossible to...
Attack on Pearl Harbor: 75 Years of charting new waters
On December 7th, 1941, 353 Imperial Japanese planes appeared across the early morning skies of Hawaii. By the end...
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...
Peace Through Growth: Ending Colombia’s civil war
Though the peace agreement between President Juan Santos and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s (FARC) Commander Timochenko was narrowly...
Victor’s Justice and the International Criminal Court
Genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes; the International Criminal Court (ICC) is charged with the heavy burden of trying...
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...
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...
There is an I in Author
The world was a dramatically different place before the advent of the Internet; it is an undeniable fact, an...
How Liberals Learned to Love Fox News
Fox News was born from a desire to counteract a perceived bias in the US media landscape. Its recently...