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Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan
September 26, 2016
AbstractThe existence of two Chinese states—one controlling mainland China, the other controlling the island of Taiwan—is often understood as a seemingly inevitable outcome of the Chinese civil war...
Of Paradigms, Politics and Principles: The 2016 Taiwan Elections and Implications for China’s Security Strategy and Cross-Strait Relations
December 1, 2015
Sponsored by the Taiwan Democracy Project and the U.S.
Syria today, Syria tomorrow: Politics, security, and society
November 18, 2015
Abstract:The Syrian crisis continues to grind on without a viable settlement to the conflict in sight.
The Possible Approaches for Defusing Tensions in the South China Sea: A Taiwanese Perspective
September 8, 2015
In this talk, Wellington Shih will provide a historical and legal overview of the Republic of China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Sanela Diana Jenkins HR Series: The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World Politics
January 12, 2011
Kathryn Sikkink is a Regents Professor and the McKnight Presidential Chair in Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She has a M.A. and Ph.D.
Immigration as a Human Right
October 22, 2010
Kieran Oberman is a post-doctoral fellow in the Program on Global Justice and the Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford Univeristy. He completed his PhD at Oxford University in 2009. His...
Mobile Phone Diffusion and Corruption in Africa
October 14, 2010
The explosion of mobile phones into a region that, until recently, was nearly devoid of telecommunications infrastructure provides a valuable opportunity to explore the potential effects of...
The North Korean Crisis: Human Stories and Taking Action
May 22, 2010
Mass famines, like those of the 1990s that killed a million people, are projected to happen again in North Korea.
International Voices Seminar
January 29, 2010
Anne Simonin is a historian at the CNRS in the IRICE lab (Identités, Relations Internationales, et Civilisations de l’Europe), which is affiliated with the universities of Paris I and IV.
Can Brain Drain Justify Immigration Restrictions?
January 22, 2010
Kieran Oberman's research focuses on the ethical implications of international migration. My thesis, "Immigration and Freedom of Movement", argued that people have a human right to freedom of...
Open Borders and the Claims of Community
October 23, 2009
Joseph H. Carens is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto (Ph.D., Yale).
If Citizenship is Political Community, then Which Communities Count? Borders and boundaries in France and Indonesia
November 17, 2006
Excerpt from page 4 of John R. Bowen's "If Citizenship is Political Community, then Which Communities Count?