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by Tomonobu Kumahira
28 weeks ago
The second day of the Strait Talk Symposiums lecture focused on the increasingly active role of NGO in resolving the Strait issues. In the past decade, exchange programs for university students between Mainland China and Taiwan have played a...
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by Urmila Chadayammuri
29 weeks ago
After the last post, writing up and publishing the Physics paper took most of my time, with the remainder captured in the three minutes above. Here's a long overdue, compact summary of the wonderful summer as a BISP fellow.
Thanks are due to...
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by James Austin Whit...
29 weeks ago
This week we will take a further look at the role of technology and business in changing the Chinese and Indian Economies. “Changing Industrial Geography in Asia: India and China” explores the origins and implications of the respective development...
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by Sean Yancey
29 weeks ago
Grass Mud Horse
The Strait Talk Symposium’s second lecture event focused on international cybersecurity issues with a focus on China-Taiwan-US interactions....
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by Noah Elbot
29 weeks ago
Picture of the author and friend Niko Nakai in the Philippines
The Snakes and Ladders of Asian Development
My post from last week focused on a critical comparison between the developing economies of India and China. The...
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by Michelle Kwok
29 weeks ago
The annual Cross-Strait symposium kicks off today with a welcome dinner for the 15 incoming delegates, representing mianland China, Taiwan and the US. They join the Strait Talk committee who have been hard at work organising the event for the past...
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by Gae Emilio Leanza
29 weeks ago
As a pseudo-Marxist, vehement criticism of the excesses of Delhi’s upper crust is a theme familiar to me. In fact, if I were to create a list of things that occupied most of my time in Delhi this summer, discussing class politics comes in only...
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by The Editors
29 weeks ago
Word On Campus asked Brown students and a recent alum to respond to the presidential debates this year, particularly, the final debate on foreign policy.
The students are:
Elizabeth Fuerbacher '14
Manas Gautam '12
Sheryl Hado '13...
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by Sarah Forman
30 weeks ago
About a week ago, I moved into my new host family’s apartment in the center of Toulouse. It’s a beautiful home, and my parents are incredibly kind and generous with me (très sympa, in the local parlance). Indeed, they’re quite similar to my real...
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by Sarah Forman
30 weeks ago
The first time I kissed a boy on the cheek -- a rushed affair in the hallway in front of my home-room class at the end of the school day -- I spent a solid hour dissecting the incident with my sixth-grade friends. Ohmygosh what did it...
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by Andy Blackadar
30 weeks ago
Fifty years ago the United States and the Soviet Union came uncomfortably close to launching a nuclear war, but how is this event remembered today? Our friends at the Armageddon Letters produced this short video and others to engage...
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by James Austin Whit...
30 weeks ago
A central question in China’s economic surge over the past couple of decades is whether or not such changes will lead to sustained performance on the international stage. The competiveness of indigenous Chinese firms and the ability of the...
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by Noah Elbot
30 weeks ago
Above picture taken by the author at the Student Cafeteria in SH Ho College, CUHK. It is a demonstration put on by the Student Union protesting the sale of non-Free Trade coffee by Starbucks on campus.
“Apparently, sir, you Chinese are...
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by Bruktaweit Addis
30 weeks ago
Snapshots of the Setting
I arrived in Addis Ababa before sunrise on the morning of September 27, which happens to be a national holiday called Meskel. It’s a celebration of the finding of the true cross and it is tradition to do a bonfire...
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by Gae Emilio Leanza
30 weeks ago
It is perhaps impossible to consider what India would be like today without Mohandas K. Gandhi. His ideas and the mass demonstrations he led defined the Indian Nationalist Movement in its fight against the British colonial administration. The...
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by Nathan Einstein
31 weeks ago
Assess the monetary value of a congestion-reducing highway project and you will have to attribute a value to the time that drivers save as a result of the project. Often, the minimum wage is adopted as a rough measure of this “economic value of time...
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by Guy Edwards
31 weeks ago
By J. Timmons Roberts and Guy Edwards
Over the past two years, the Watson Institute partnered with Brown’s Center for Environmental Studies to provide partial support for Visiting Fellow Guy Edwards. Edwards has led Brown student...
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by James Austin Whit...
31 weeks ago
Last time, we introduced Acemoglu and Robinson’s framework for discussing examining institutional development. This week, I want to focus more on a subset of that framework devoted to growth under extractive institutions. We posited that there are...
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by Noah Elbot
31 weeks ago
Above picture taken by the author on campus at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Post 2 – Birth of Institutions, Ethnic Fractionalization, and Scared Politicians
Many of the worst ills of American society, increasingly to be found in...
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by Sarah Forman
32 weeks ago
This past week has brought yet another Jewish holiday — this one the harvest festival of Sukkot. It’s a biblical celebration that references the 40 years Jews are supposed to have spent wandering through the desert after the exodus from Egypt....
