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Barron's Quotes Gi-Wook Shin on How Korea’s Semiconductor Boom Is Creating Social Instability
Record profits led to significant employee bonuses, sparking turmoil, including internal union disputes.
Announcing the 2026 Class of the Fisher Family Summer Fellows on Democracy and Development Program
In July 2026, the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law will welcome a diverse cohort of 28 experienced practitioners from 22 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.
Nik White ('26) is a student in the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy (MIP) specializing in Cyber Policy and Security. Before coming to Stanford, Nik captained the soccer team at Harvard University where he earned his bachelor's degree in psychology. He is originally from Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada.
Beijing is betting that its new model of growth, defined by dominance of frontier technologies, kicks in before the old one, driven by land sales and construction, collapses.
SCCEI brought together leading China scholars this spring for its third annual China Conference under the theme “Understanding ‘DeepSeek Moments’ and China’s Innovation Ecosystem.” Conversation centered around the idea that the world’s prevailing frameworks for assessing China’s innovative capacity often underestimate it, and the consequences of that blind spot are growing.
Rush Doshi, keynote speaker at the 2026 SCCEI China Conference, laid out an eight-point blueprint for transforming U.S. alliances into an engine of shared economic and industrial capacity.
Marco Widodo receives a Firestone Medal, Shayla Fitzsimmons-Call wins CDDRL's Outstanding Thesis Award, and Zoya Fasihuddin is named the inaugural recipient of the Zoe Savellos Memorial Award for Community Building.
SPICE instructor Jonas Edman reflects on a decade of teaching SPICE’s first regional program in Japan.
Banned from political office but unbowed, the Thai pro-democracy leader revisited Stanford to analyze the recent electoral defeat of his progressive party, weigh in on regional tensions in Southeast Asia and Thailand’s geopolitical balancing act, and consider the prospects for the country’s future and his political comeback.
CDDRL graduating senior Anagali Duncan, 2026 Dinkelspiel Award winner, is among ten members of the campus community recognized for excellence in teaching, service, and academics.
Meet the team behind an ambitious anti-trafficking research agenda, including SHP's Kim Babiarz and Grant Miller.
National community forums in the U.S. and India highlight differences in preferences for privacy, user control, and governance of emerging technologies.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s ruling Democratic Party won the majority of key local contests in the country's local elections, but faced a symbolic blow as conservative opposition incumbent Oh Se-hoon secured another term as mayor of Seoul.
Political scientist Gaea Morales, APARC’s 2025-26 Shorenstein postdoctoral fellow on contemporary Asia, studies questions at the nexus of global policy and local action and how Southeast Asian megacities build climate resilience by drawing on local knowledge and global networks to drive change from the ground up, even in the absence of central government support.
The 2026 Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Symposium explores the current landscape and future directions for global health.
The awards recognize Folsz’s research on how aspiring autocrats use economic pressure to undermine electoral competition.
China’s tobacco monopoly has become so financially vital to the government that even its powerful leader has failed to curb the country’s smoking habit.
The award recognizes Samet's research on the opportunities and risks of foreign support for opposition movements.
The Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions and Stanford University Libraries welcomed Professor Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago) for the 2026 Dr. Sam-Chung Hsieh Memorial Lecture on the risks of Taiwan's economic boom.
A Democracy Action Lab fieldwork mission to Lima and Cusco around Peru's first-round 2026 election finds a democracy whose deepest fractures predate the ballot.
Teren Sevea, APARC’s Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fellow on Southeast Asia, reveals how overlooked histories and everyday ethics in Southeast Asia can reshape our understanding of the past and our responsibility for the future.
Strongyloidiasis: a widely ignored yet dangerous tropical disease that can kill when immunity fails.
In a discussion convened by the Program on Arab Reform and Development, Stanford scholars situate regional upheaval within longer trajectories of imperial intervention, authoritarian rule, and global political shifts.
A Stanford lab focuses on patient input when determining the ethical use of AI in health care.
Professor Emeritus Larry Becker reflects on the early years of SPICE’s Africa Project and how his experience with SPICE enriched and informed his academic journey and teaching practice.