James Lin, Assistant Professor in the Jackson School’s UW Taiwan Studies Program, was quoted alongside other China and Taiwan experts in a February 5th segment of NPR’s All Things Considered about the Biden Administration’s foreign policy in the region. Lin emphasized that the U.S. may not make as much of a change to its posture towards China

China’s UN Thinking and Behavior: Uncovering Decision-Making Procedures Inside Opaque Governments Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | 12:30 p.m. (PST) | Virtually on Zoom – Register Below Rosemary Foot will introduce the main findings and methods from her recent book, China, the UN and Human Protection: Beliefs, Power, Image (Oxford University Press, 2020). She will explain

In a January 27, 2021 article titled “America’s Exceptional Two Party System” Robert Pekkanen, professor of Japanese politics at the Jackson School and co-author of “The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems“, gives his insights into the U.S. 2-party electoral system in combination with presidential-ism. The piece, which appears on page 4 of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, one of

Register for Zoom Link Wednesday, February 24th, 2021 | 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. (US-Pacific Time) | Virtually on Zoom A GRIPS Webinar on Japanese Foreign Policy made possible by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. China is becoming more powerful and assertive, and the balance of power in the region is changing quickly. Narushige

FLAS recipient Darius Izad graduated in 2018 with a J.D. from the UW School of Law. Darius is currently a Captain and Attorney in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. He sat down with the EAC for a virtual interview in late 2020. Can you expand on your experience learning Chinese as

FLAS recipient Ida Knox graduated in 2020 with a JD and LLM from the UW School of Law, focusing on sustainable international development. Ida currently works as an Associate Attorney at Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle. She recently joined the EAC for a virtual interview. Thank you for the opportunity to chat. How are you

Dr. Mireya Solís, Director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, will join the UW East Asia Center and the UW Japan Studies Program via Zoom to discuss emerging developments in U.S. – Japan relations under the Biden and Suga administrations. Moderator: Robert J. Pekkanen, Professor, UW Japan Studies Program

Andrea Gevurtz Arai, instructor (araia2@uw.edu) Spring seminar: F, 1:30-4:20 “Spaces of Creative Resistance in East Asia” This seminar course focuses on the spaces, places and creativity of social resistance projects across East Asia. We will explore the socio-cultural and political economic contexts of their emergence, the background and impetus for their participants to become involved;

As the Taiwan Studies Program of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington enters its fourth year, the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has provided a $1 million endowment to support the Program operations, and a further $800,000 grant to establish a Taiwan Arts and Culture program for the western

Professor David Bachman of the UW China Studies Program was recently quoted in an article by Northwest Asian Weekly entitled, “Biden and China: Guarded Optimism from Local Chinese Leaders.” Bachman comments that U.S. relations with China will probably not change that much due to ongoing bipartisan criticism of China, but that Republicans will certainly pressure the