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A History of Unity: A Look at FSI’s Special Relationship with Ukraine

FSI's long history of building friendships and creating engagement with Ukrainian scholars and civil leaders is more important now than it's ever been.
Ukraine and FSI
Ukraine and FSI
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Full-Spectrum Pro-Kremlin Online Propaganda about Ukraine

An exploration into how propaganda narratives on unattributed, pro-Kremlin Telegram channels overlaps with the messaging from official Russian state media outlets.
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Propaganda
Peter Blair Henry

Peter Blair Henry Joins the Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Henry will continue his groundbreaking research on economic reforms and the global economy with the Hoover Institution and the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at FSI.
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MEET PETER HENRY

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The The Hall of Supreme Harmony is the largest hall within the Forbidden City in Beijing, China and large bronze lion statue sits in front.

U.S.-China Relations in the Age of Uncertainty, a Conversation with Yasheng Huang

News / April 28, 2022
MIT professor Yasheng Huang joined SCCEI for a conversation on the fundamentals of U.S.-China relations and shared his thoughts on how the U.S. can disrupt current bilateral tension and advocated for more data-based, factual, and analytical discussions on China.
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How Has Africa Largely Evaded the COVID-19 Pandemic?

News / April 27, 2022
SHP master's student Tofunmi Omiye looked at why so few Africans have been hit by the coronavirus compared to the rest of the world. He recently presented this conundrum at Stanford’s 8th Annual Global Health Research Convening.
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Japanese Population Projected to Live Longer Without Dementia

News / April 27, 2022
A new microsimulation projects that over the next 20 years, Japanese people will live longer without dementia, but older women with a less than high school education will benefit less than men.
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Explaining Latin America's Contradictory Reactions to the War in Ukraine

Commentary / April 27, 2022
Nearly every Latin American country opposed the U.S. war in Afghanistan in 2001. Most also opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Why is the region more divided on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine today?
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Panelists at Obama Event Discuss Threats to Democracy in Digital Realm

News / April 26, 2022
During three panel discussions at the Cyber Policy Center, speakers discussed the challenges and potential solutions to disinformation and its often negative impact to democracy.
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Erin A. Snider

Texas A&M Political Scientist Examines Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East

News / April 26, 2022
The Program on Arab Reform and Democracy (ARD) at CDDRL hosted a talk featuring Erin A. Snider, Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service, who discussed her latest book – Marketing Democracy: The Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press 2022).
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NPR's Beijing Correspondent Emily Feng Wins 2022 Shorenstein Journalism Award

News / April 26, 2022
Feng, whose compelling and bold reporting has amplified the voices of Chinese citizens amid rapidly deteriorating press freedom in the country, is the recipient of the 21st Shorenstein Journalism Award.
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Kawasaki City Mayor Norihiko Fukuda Delivers Inspirational Comments to Students

Blogs / April 26, 2022
Stanford e-Kawasaki closing ceremony held.
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2022-23 CDDRL Pre and Postdoctoral Fellows

Introducing Our 2022-23 Pre and Postdoctoral Fellows

News / April 25, 2022
The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) is pleased to welcome seven pre- and postdoctoral fellows who will be joining us for the 2022-23 academic year. These scholars will spend the academic year focusing on the Center's four program areas of democracy, development, evaluating the efficacy of democracy promotion, and rule of law.
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Fake or Fact news on coronavirus

Does Free Speech Protect COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation?

Q&As / April 22, 2022
While some might say making or spreading known false statements related to the COVID-19 vaccine should be criminalized, the First Amendment, which guarantees free speech, continues to provide protection for people who promulgate such faulty information. So, how can the spread of misinformation be stopped without quashing free speech?
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Xion, Seoho, Ravn, Keonhee, Leedo, and Hwanwoong of OneUs visit the Empire State Building

It’s Time for K-pop Stars to Speak Out on Human Rights

Commentary / April 21, 2022
With few exceptions, South Korea’s K-pop idols have been conspicuously silent on controversial subjects – including the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Siegfried Hecker (second from right) visits the secret Russian nuclear city of Sarov in February 1992.

Siegfried Hecker: Putin has destroyed the world nuclear order. How should the democracies respond?

Q&As / April 21, 2022
One of the world’s foremost nuclear security and policy experts, Sig Hecker has spent much of an illustrious career working to enhance cooperation among US and Russian scientists and their governments in hopes of reducing nuclear risk.
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Stanford University’s Korea Program Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Conference Spotlighting South Korean Wave, North Korean Geopolitics

News / April 20, 2022
The Korea Program at Stanford’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center will commemorate its 20-year anniversary with a two-day conference, convening eminent speakers from the K-pop industry, academia, and government, and unveiling two new documentary films.
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President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton from What Does It Mean to Be an American?

SPICE’s Rylan Sekiguchi Interviewed by Education About Asia

News / April 19, 2022
On March 24, 2021 during the annual Association for Asian Studies conference, SPICE’s Manager of Curriculum and Instructional Design Rylan Sekiguchi formally accepted the 2021 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for his authorship of What Does It Mean to Be an American?
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Vladamir Putin and Xi Jinping shake hands.

Beijing Is Used to Learning from Russian Failures

Commentary / April 19, 2022
The invasion of Ukraine is offering useful lessons for the PLA.
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Participants on the stage at the launch event for the MIPyMEs Futuros Verdes program.

Master's Program Alumni Continue to Shape Energy Policy in the Yucatan Peninsula

Q&As / April 18, 2022
As alumni of the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Angela Ortega Pastor and Hallie Lucas continue their efforts to bring clean, affordable energy to businesses in Mexico.
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Poll: Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling is rattling neighbors’ nerves

Commentary / April 15, 2022
While Ukrainians fight or flee Russia’s bombardment of their cities, many Europeans feel a palpable, renewed nuclear fear.
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Amichai Magen joins the Freeman Spogli Institute as its inaugural Visiting Fellow in Israel Studies.

Amichai Magen Selected as Inaugural Visiting Fellow in Israel Studies

News / April 14, 2022
Magen, a scholar of law, government and international relations, will arrive at Stanford in the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Russo-Ukrainian War Highlights Cyber Threats to Satellite Communications

Commentary / April 12, 2022
Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine demonstrates that hypothetical scenarios of cyberattacks paralyzing satellite communications are already taking place.
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Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks and her team meet at the Hoover Institution with students and faculty from the Gordian Knot Center.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks Discusses Importance of Strategic Partnerships with Stanford Faculty and Students

News / April 12, 2022
A visit from the Department of Defense’s deputy secretary gave the Gordian Knot Center a prime opportunity to showcase how its faculty and students are working to build an innovative workforce that can help solve the nation’s most pressing national security challenges.
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Ukranian President Zelenskyy in a green shirt, clasping his hands

What is Ukraine’s best security guarantee?

Commentary / April 12, 2022
Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war on Ukraine has run nearly seven weeks.
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Winners Announced for the Fall 2021 Stanford e-Japan Award

News / April 12, 2022
Congratulations to our newest student honorees.
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Tongtong Zhang

Predoctoral Fellow Spotlight: Tongtong Zhang Examines Channels for Public Deliberation in China

Q&As / April 12, 2022
Political Scientist and APARC Predoctoral Fellow Tongtong Zhang explores how the Chinese Communist Party maintains control through various forms of political communication.
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Through the Glass Darkly: Ukraine and the Question of Genocide

Commentary / April 11, 2022
What is genocide? Did the Soviet Holodomor (man-made famine) in 1930s Ukraine fit this definition? Do the recent atrocities in Bucha? Has the Russian military conducted itself in a similar manner in prior conflicts? Is there a pattern there? Find out as Sean Patrick Hazlett meets with Stanford Professor Dr. Norman Naimark.
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Education Level Will Widen Disparity in Health Outcomes of the Future Elderly Population, New Study Projects

News / April 11, 2022
In the first study to compare the progression of educational disparities in disability across two rapidly aging Asian societies, APARC coauthors Cynthia Chen and Karen Eggleston project that from 2015 to 2050, elders with high educational attainment will have a lower prevalence of functional disability and chronic conditions compared to elderly with low educational attainment.
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