Smart Power in Practice: Statecraft Strategy for a Multipolar World
Introduction The concept of smart power, first articulated by Joseph Nye in the early 2000s, has become a foundational framework for understanding how states na...
Introduction The concept of smart power, first articulated by Joseph Nye in the early 2000s, has become a foundational framework for understanding how states na...
Zhiguo He is a Chinese economist and James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before joining the Stanford faculty, h...
Introduction The region of Arunachal, a sparsely populated Himalayan borderland, had long eluded the firm control of any pre-modern state. Only in 1912-13 did B...
This transcript is from an interview conducted on March 9, 2025, in partnership with the Brown China Summit (BCS). Founded in 2014, the Brown China Summit is Br...
In 1972, Richard Nixon shook Mao Zedong’s hand in Beijing, marking what many Americans perceived as the beginning of U.S.-China relations. This handshake symbol...
On November 6th, 2021, students of Chinese universities rampaged through the streets in their pajamas on a snowy night as deafening screams of celebration echoe...
The United States and the People’s Republic of China are at a crossroads, with both states fighting to assert their influence over the Indo-Pacific. In particul...
China spent decades building elite universities, but why are Chinese students still packing their bags for the West? In January, the Communist Party’s Cen...
This essay won 2nd Place in the 2024 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “Evaluate an example of a fore...
Odd Arne Westad is a Norwegian scholar of modern international and global history, with a specialization in the history of Eastern Asia since the 18th century. ...