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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...