Jackson School Associate Director Saadia Pekkanen‘s monthly post for Forbes explores how Japan has used the problem of orbital debris to develop new technologies that can also serve military purposes.

Jackson School Associate Director and Professor Saadia Pekkanen focuses her latest Forbes article on Japan and its outer space program.

Over 30 Seattle area K-12 teachers learned the latest on “Global Asia: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” this year, thanks to a unique, decade-long collaboration between The Seattle Times and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. On April 29, 2015, a group of educators gathered for this “Newspapers In Education” event at The Seattle

Read Associate Director Saadia Pekkanen‘s latest take on China in the race for outer space.  

Ph.D. Program Director Saadia Pekkanen pens “Asia’s Simmering Rivalries Are Shifting To Outer Space, Where Anything Goes,” in Forbes magazine.

In early March, over 150 educators from across Washington state attended the annual Chelan Conference, a three-day forum sponsored by the Washington State Council for the Social Studies and co-sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Through its outreach centers, the Henry

Professor William Lavely is quoted in this article by The Seattle Times about the aging population in China and the rising need for elder care.

Professor Robert Pekkanen is quoted in this Ozy.com article about Prime Minister Abe’s re-election and Japan’s economy. “It could send a powerful signal about a commitment to economic reform,” he says.

For the first ground-breaking event for the Korean Peninsula Forum, which aims at enhancing the understanding and visibility of issues related to the Korean peninsula in the Northwest America and beyond, the UW Center for Korea Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies invited Christopher Robert Hill, the former United States ambassador to the

On Oct. 13, Professor Donald Hellmann gave a talk on “The World in Transition: Asia and the Twilight of America’s Century.”