Category: East Asia
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Four Years of Sunshine: Examining South Korea’s Policy of Reconciliation toward North Korea under the Moon Administration
Since his election to the South Korean presidency in May of 2017, Moon Jae-in has…
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The History and Current Condition of Chinese Human Rights Lawyers
After being imprisoned and tortured for eleven months,[1] human rights lawyer Chang Weiping was only…
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Event Report: Colonizing Language by Dr Christina Yi
On February 3rd, 2021, the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs, in…
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Event Report: Sticky Activism: The Gangnam Station Murder Case and New Feminist Practices Against Misogyny and Femicide
Note: This event is based on an article that will be published in the Journal…
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One Way Road: An Investigation into the Development of Sino-Canadian Relations (1970-2015)
Abstract: Relations between Canada and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have been and remain…
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Official Development Assistance (ODA): Lessons from Japan and the EU
Abstract The study of international development through foreign aid and development assistance has been of…
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Orphan of Asia? Sinicization, Democratization and Taiwan Nationalism during the Lee Teng-hui Presidency, 1988-2000
ABSTRACT With the increasing movement toward a Taiwan-based politics, there has also been a simultaneous…
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Event Report: The Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World
Every year, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the Embassy of Canada host the…
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Forgetting Without Forgiving: Japanese (American) Masculinity and the Model Minority
Abstract: From internment camps to military barracks, the U.S. employed Japanese American citizen-soldiers during World…
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Japan’s Energy Policy: Economic Drivers and Political Challenges
Abstract: The article examines the complex relations between economic attractiveness and political impediments in Japan’s…
