Over most of the past decade, Japan has been attempting to galvanize a foothold in the small satellite industry. The nation sees the potential of the technology for both economic and security reasons, and has steered space policy with the intent of capitalize on it. While these changes provide some level of promise, as reflected

China’s space industry has launched a new round of commercialization as a combined result of two national strategies—the streamlining of the defense industry and the “Going-Global” of domestic manufacturers. The former aims at increasing the profitability and efficiency of China’s defense enterprises and will allow more private capital to participate in the traditionally state-dominated industry.

Splash is a Seattle-based international non-profit organization that helps provide safe water to hundreds of thousands of children living in urban poverty in Asia and Africa. Alumnus Eric Stowe (M.A., international studies, 2003), who founded Splash after working in China’s orphanages, is interviewed in the February issue of the University of Washington’s College of Arts &

Since the end of the Cold War, there has been an ideological confrontation in the Korean Peninsula between communist North Korea and democratic South Korea. As South Korea has embraced the Internet, its networked society has become highly vulnerable to cyber threats, particularly from North Korea. To secure South Korean society from cyber threats such

Internationally, Snowden’s revelation about the extent of U.S government surveillance was met with great anger. Governments began asking questions about what could be done to avoid U.S. surveillance. The BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—had already begun thinking about the idea of a global Internet without the U.S. at its center, but Snowden’s release

First-year Ph.D. student Patrick Thomsen discusses how South Koreans are losing their identity in “Rewriting History in South Korea,” which was published by The Diplomat on Nov. 20, 2015.

By Tina Lu Special to the Jackson School One retired U.S. Air Force officer and alumnus of the Jackson School is pursuing U.S.-China relations in a unique way. In 2011, Carson Tavenner (MAIS, China, 2000) started the Tai Initiative, which helps build U.S.-China relationships between organizations at a local level. That means helping schools, corporations,

Ph.D. student Christopher Pearson wrote an article for The Diplomat about how a Japanese party split could signal a new round of mergers and alliances.

By Muyang Chen The rise of Asia in the space industry brings both challenges and opportunities to the United States. The Pacific Northwest will play a further proactive role in facilitating the continued development of space industry and reinforcing cooperation between the US and Asia. The emergence of space industry brings Seattle, a city of

East Asia FLAS fellow Noelle Roubinek, a graduate student in Korea Studies, with her classmates at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea (Noelle is in red).