SECURITY
On July 27, 2018, the Japanese government updated its cybersecurity strategy, calling for the strengthening of infrastructural protection, including that of international undersea cables. Given…
ANALYSIS
- by Motohiro Tsuchiya, Keio University
INDUSTRY
Many Asian economies are focusing on innovation and regional emerging markets to drive growth. The economic model “Thailand 4.0,” for example, presents a broad development…
ANALYSIS
- by George Abonyi, Maxwell School (Executive Education Program), Syracuse University
ENVIRONMENT
Air pollution, and especially particulate matter, is one of the greatest threats to human health. It leads to respiratory and heart diseases, strokes, and lung…
ANALYSIS
- by Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago
ENVIRONMENT
Contaminants both obvious and subtle have made a home within our rivers. These pollutants include pesticides, fertilizers, industrial effluent, and human sewage—a mélange of chemicals…
INSIGHT
- by Xiaomei Chen, Writer
ENVIRONMENT
Many of the great cities of the modern world are intertwined with their rivers: London and the Thames, New York and the Hudson, Paris and…
ANALYSIS
- by Victor Mallet, Journalist and Author
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
The Pan-Asia Railway, a marquee project in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is to be a network of contiguous track that would stretch from…
ANALYSIS
- by Will Doig, Journalist and Author
DEMOCRACY
Every organization—even a government—needs a vision. But who audits governments’ results? Political scientists would tell you that voters do. Economists would tell you that investors…
INSIGHT
- by Bryane Michael, The University of Hong Kong
ENVIRONMENT
Japan is experiencing dramatic demographic change due to rapid aging and, since 2008, depopulation. Conventionally, these are considered to be economic “problems” to be “solved,”…
ANALYSIS
- by Peter Matanle, University of Sheffield
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