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February 13, 2023
Public Health Threats and Pandemics
The Global Governance of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
Zoonotic diseases, naturally transmissible between humans and animals, have posed a growing public health threat for decades. However, existing institutional arrangements have fallen short. The wide-…
December 18, 2013
Women and Women's Rights
Child Marriage
Child marriage remains widespread in developing countries, disproportionately affecting girls and endangering their lives and livelihoods. Rooted in cultural tradition and poverty, the practice not o…
April 22, 2010
Japan
What is Lee Myung-bak Doing That I’m Not?
Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Tim Chong President Lee Myung-bak did steal the spotlight last week at the Nuclear Security Summit, even though I argued strenuously that it was Japan’s Moment to Shine. …
March 24, 2015
Asia
Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore’s Future
In the wake of the death of Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, many obituaries lauding Lee’s role in transforming the city-state also have argued that Singapore faces high hurdles to continui…
April 11, 2024
South Korea
South Korea’s Opposition Parties’ Win: What It Means
The center-left Democratic Party added to its legislative majority after the recent parliamentary election, which would deal a blow to President Yoon Suk Yeol’s domestic reform agenda and possibly hi…
August 18, 2014
Japan
Park Geun-hye’s “Correct View of History” With Japan
The August 15 anniversary of the end of World War II—when the Korean peninsula gained independence from Japanese colonial rule—is not just a time of reflection on the legacy and costs of that war; i…
