Spotlight on Japan’s seventy-year old constitution
There is more than the usual interest in the seventieth birthday of Japan’s constitution, importantly because of a move to revision of its most unusual and distinguishing feature — Article…
Chinese Public Opinion: Shaping China’s Foreign Policy, or Shaped by It?
…For most foreign policy issues, China’s existing foreign policy serves as a directive for media reports. For example, Chinese media reports on the domestic turbulence in Libya and Syria in…
Mekong – US Partnership Track 1.5 Policy Dialogue Summary Report on Human Resources and Capacity Building
…internal quality testing. Teachers and lecturers should actively integrate soft-skills development into hard-skill educational and training programs. Donor partners like the United States should integrate soft skills training into existing…
After the Age of Trump: Rejecting Competition
…Creation?,” Foreign Affairs, June/July 2025, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/absent-creation-rebecca-lissner. 16 Matthew Duss and Nancy Okail, “America Is Cursed by a Foreign Policy of Nostalgia,” Foreign Affairs, December 3, 2024, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/america-cursed-foreign-policy-nostalgia. 17 See Emma…
Kitchen as the New Venue of Foreign Policy
…and provisioning of goods to markets. Food is often studied in the context of humanitarian aid and post-conflict development. At present, over 60 percent of all foreign assistance given by…
Serious Training Needs Proposed for Foreign Service: Academy Report Identifies Critical Needs
…The study, “Forging a 21st Century Diplomatic Service for the United States Through Professional Education and Training,” addresses critical training Foreign Service Officers need to meet the changing requirements of…
China’s Conflict Resolution and Mediation Approach in Mali
…Foreign Minister Chen Xiaodong.36See Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, “Assistant Foreign Minister Chen Xiaodong Meets with the Joint Visiting Delegation of the Malian Government and…
Emma Ashford: Where Do American Interests End?
…emphasize that, but in part, that’s because I work on U.S. foreign policy. Peter Slezkine: No, but U.S. foreign policy is based somewhere. You have to take, I don’t know,…