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New research by a team including Stanford health economist Karen Eggleston provides evidence about the positive impact of China’s urban-rural health insurance integration on mental well-being among rural seniors, offering insights for policymakers worldwide.
Reflections on the first Stanford e-Minamata award ceremony.
SCCEI awarded Alicia Chen and Matthew DeButts with competitive research fellowships for the 2025-26 academic year to pursue research on China.
Charles Sheiner ('25) is a recipient of the 2025 Firestone Medal, and Adrian Feinberg ('25) and Adelaide Madary ('25) have won CDDRL's Outstanding Thesis Awards.
In July 2025, the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law will welcome a diverse cohort of 27 experienced practitioners from 18 countries who are working to advance democratic practices and economic and legal reform in contexts where freedom, human development, and good governance are fragile or at risk.
We are thrilled to welcome eight outstanding students, who together represent nine different majors and minors, to our Honors Program in International Security Studies.
Trinkunas is awarded for his outstanding academic career and contributions to security and defense studies, such as civil-military relations, transnational organized crime, terrorism, and local orders dominated by non-state actors, among other topics of great relevance to our field of study.
Ryoya Shinozaki, a doctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Education, reflects on his experience in the SPICE-linked intensive seminar in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Building on the Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue initiative launched by Shorenstein APARC and the Ban Ki-moon Foundation for a Better Future, the 2025 Sustainability Dialogue convenes policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to advance progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 13 – Climate Action – of the United Nations-adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
As global audiences and digital platforms reshape cultural exchange, APARC’s Japan Program convened leading creators, producers, and scholars at Stanford to examine the creative ecosystems driving the international success of Japan’s content industries and their growing influence on innovation, fandom, and international collaboration.
More than 200 academics and political leaders met last week at Stanford for “Climate Resilience and Local Governmental Policy: Lessons from Los Angeles and Tel Aviv,” a groundbreaking conference organized by CDDRL's Visiting Fellows in Israel Studies program.
South Koreans have elected Lee Jae-myung president. Will he be a pragmatic democratic reformer? Or will he continue the polarizing political warfare of recent South Korean leaders?
Shinichi Kitaoka, a visiting scholar at APARC and Japan Program fellow, teaches a spring quarter seminar that brings students and scholars together to examine Japanese political history from the Yedo period to the present through a global and comparative lens.
Joan Benedict, an undergraduate student at Waseda University, reflects on her experience participating in the SPICE/Stanford–Waseda intensive course.
Dr. Natalia Forrat, a comparative political sociologist and lecturer at the University of Michigan’s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, explores how authoritarian regimes are maintained not only through top-down coercion but also through everyday social dynamics at the grassroots level.
Dr. Ryan Moore successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on using short educational videos to improve older adults’ digital literacy and resilience to online deception at scale.
Peter Piot tells annual Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Research Symposium that being a young researcher among the group of scientists who discovered Ebola led him to a life on the road tackling some of the world's deadliest viruses.
A comprehensive review of rapidly aging South Korea’s efforts to mitigate the social and economic costs of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, co-authored by Stanford health economist Karen Eggleston, provides insights for nations facing policy pressures of the demographic transition.
Journalist Describes Surviving October 7 Hamas Attack and Analyzes Israeli-Palestinian Relations
Journalist Amir Tibon shared his family’s story of survival, betrayal, and hope for peace with a Stanford audience, while also offering insights on contemporary Israeli politics.
Leading researchers, practitioners, and policy experts to explore the current landscape of AI audits and chart a path forward during a closed-door conference in Spain this June.
Seniors Alex Borthwick, Adrian Feinberg, Malaina Kapoor, and Avinash Thakkar (Fisher Family Honors Program class of 2025), and junior Emma Wang (Fisher Family Honors Program class of 2026) are among the newest members of this prestigious academic honors society.
Two Stanford researchers are working on projects to fight antimicrobial resistance and colorectal cancer in Mexico.
The second annual SCCEI China Conference, held at Stanford University on May 14, brought together leading scholars and policy experts. Panelists offered a candid, multifaceted view of China's global economic position, exploring its technological prowess, industrial diplomacy, and the increasingly complex global responses to its expanding influence.
In a keynote address during the 2025 SCCEI China Conference, U.S.-China Business Council President Sean Stein cautioned that strategic miscalculations and trade tensions have left the U.S. economy with lasting setbacks—and few clear gains.