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In a new piece for the Carnegie Endowment’s Emissary Blog, Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens offers commentary on South Korea’s new holiday: North Korean Defectors’ Day. She explains why Seoul began the commemoration and argues that the Yoon government should use this moment to advance policy toward the North Korea diaspora….

On this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Marshall Kosloff talks with Ambassador Robert Blackwill and Richard Fontaine about their new book, “Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power.” Listen to the podcast here.

For the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, Senior Research Fellow Rowena He shared her reflections with Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. The piece includes her recollections of Spring 1989 and the lasting impact it’s had on her. “We took to the streets not because of hatred and…

In a new special issue article for Global Policy, Distinguished Fellow Rana Siu Inboden writes about “China, power and the United Nations Special Procedures: Emerging threats to the “crown jewels” of the international human rights system”. “While there are other parts of the human rights regime where Beijing is able…

On this episode of This Is Democracy, Clements Center Faculty Fellow Jeremi Suri and his co-host Zachary Suri are joined by Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens to discuss the changing political landscape in China and how that affects their relationship to the United States and other world leaders. Listen here.

In “The Failures of Russian Aerospace Forces in the Russia-Ukraine War and the Future of Air Power,” Jaganath Sankaran investigates the reasons behind the failures of the Russian Aerospace Forces to acquire air superiority over Ukraine in the early stages of the 2022 war. He offers three causal explanations: (1). Russian military…

The Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program hosted Xiaobing Li, professor of history and the Don Betz endowed chair in international studies at the University of Central Oklahoma, for a book talk on China’s New Navy: The Evolution of PLAN from the People’s Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War. You can now…

In October 2023, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program co-hosted a panel event with the Korea Economic Institute of America on economic security in the Indo-Pacific. Articles presented at the conference are included in the latest issue of KEI’s journal, Korea Policy. The Evolving Landscape of U.S. Economic Security: The Confluence…

On Wednesday, April 10, the Clements-Strauss Asia Policy Program hosted Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Professor of International Relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Pacheco Pardo discussed his book, South Korea’s Grand Strategy: Making Its Own Destiny. Listen to the…

In a new article for Parameters, the US Army War College Journal, Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens writes on “China’s Use of Nontraditional Strategic Landpower in Asia”. She argues that the People’s Republic of China uses its policy and internal security forces as a nontraditional means of projecting strategic Landpower in…