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Can Trump make feminist history - unlikely
Women, peace and security: Trump can make feminist history by signing this billAllison Peters, Opinion, international consultant focused on gender and the prevention of violent extremism and...
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Monday in Washington, October 9, 2017
Most of Washington is quiet today as it is a Federal Holiday.Perspectives on US-China Relations in a Time of Rapid ChangeSponsored by Johns Hopkins SAIS China Studies, Foreign Policy Institute, and the...
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Monday in Washington October 16, 2017
HISTORY AND FUTURE OF THE GLOBAL HIV/AIDS RESPONSE. 10/16, 10:00am-11:30am. Sponsor: Global Health Policy Center, CSIS. Speakers: Dr. Michael Merson, Wolfgang Joklik Professor of Global Health, Vice...
View ArticleMemorializing Sexual Violence in War
Sexual Violence in WarProfessor Elisabeth Wood Yale University, October 7, 2009It is not normativeAn Important Statue for “Comfort Women” in San FranciscoBy Sally McGrane, The New Yorker, October 12,...
View ArticleThe Death of Liberalism in Japan
A new party only strengthens the Rightby Koichi Nakano is a professor of political science at Sophia University, in Tokyo.The International New York Times, October 16, 2017TOKYO — Last month, when...
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Monday in Washington, October 23, 2017
JAPAN'S ELECTIONS: IMPACTS ON REGIONAL SECURITY, TRADE, AND U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS. 10/ 23, 10:30am-Noon. Sponsor: Sasakawa USA. Speakers: Daniel Bob, Senior Fellow and Director of Programs, Sasakawa...
View ArticleIdentifying the ‘liberal’ in Japanese politics
By PHILIP BRASORJapan Times, October 21, 2017The current group of conservative public figures in the United States wants to return to an age when certain middle-class values were ascendant, without...
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Abe After The Election
What To Do With Power?By Daniel Sneider, Lecturer in East Asian Studies at Stanford University and APP memberTokyo Business Today, October 24, 2017Shinzo Abe has once again defied his critics and...
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Monday in Washington, October 30, 2017
INDIA’S POST-DEMONETIZATION POLICY AGENDA. 10/30, 10:00-11:15am. Sponsor: Carnegie. Speakers: Milan Vaishnav, Director and Senior Fellow, South Asia Program, Carnegie; V. Anantha Nageswaran, Professor,...
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October Election No Mandate for Abe
By William Brooks, SAIS, Johns Hopkins Fellow and APP Senior FellowJapan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) walked away with an easy win in the October 22 general election. The LDP, with its coalition...
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Monday in Washington, November 6, 2017
CLINTON 25: GEORGETOWN REFLECTS ON THE VISION OF BILL CLINTON. 11/6, 9:00am-6:00pm. Sponsor: Georgetown University, Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics) at Georgetown’s McCourt School...
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Monday in Washington, November 13, 2017
MORAL INJURY: TOWARD AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. 11/13, 8:15-11:15am, Coffee. Sponsor: New America. Speakers: Brad Allenby, President’s Professor, Affiliated Faculty, Center on the Future of War,...
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Monday in Washington, November 20, 2017
READINESS ON THE LINE: PREPARING TODAY'S FORCE FOR FUTURE FIGHTS. 11/20, 9:30-10:30am. Sponsor: Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Air Force Association. Speaker: Gen. Mike Holmes, Commander,...
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Monday in Washington, November 27, 2017
PRIVATE SECTOR ENGAGEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN. 11/27, 1:00- 3:00pm. Sponsor: Project on Prosperity and Development, CSIS. Speaker: Gregory Huger, Assistant to the Administrator, Office of Afghanistan and...
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Japan’s Pyrrhic Victory Over ‘Comfort Women’ Commemoration
Blocking comfort women documents from UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register could do Japan more harm than good.By Edward Vickers, Professor of Comparative Education at Kyushu University, Japan. He is a...
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Japanese state history dissemination
Autobiography of Massachusetts native who survived the Bataan Death MarchOn November 30, the Abe Administration through its Foreign Ministry's think tank, the Japan International Institute for...
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Monday in Washington, December 4, 2017
RAISING GLOBAL THREATS: WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO WIN. 12/4, 8:00am-Noon. Sponsor: Defense Forum Washington 2017, U.S. Naval Institute. Speakers Include: Richard V. Spencer, Secretary of the Navy, CAPT John...
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War and Memory in Japan
Something Dreadful Happened in the Past: Generational Memory of War and Peace in JapanAkiko Hashimoto (Visiting Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Portland State University, and Faculty Fellow...
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Spirits Homecoming in DC
Two Screenings in Washington, DCThursday, December 14, 20175:00-7:30pm, Reception, Washington, DCSponsors Washington Coalition for Comfort Women Issues (WCCW); Institute for Korean Studies, GWU...
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