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Mary Callahan pens article on ghosts of coups past in Myanmar // East Asia Forum
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Vanessa Freije pens piece on Australia’s fight with Facebook // The Conversation
February 19, 2021
In “Australia, fighting Facebook, is the latest country to struggle against foreign influence on journalism” Assistant Professor Vanessa Freije analyzes the recent Facebook ban on Australians finding or sharing news on
Daniel Bessner reviews Barack Obama memoir, Robert Gates’ post-Cold War book for Jacobin and n+1
February 9, 2021
In”Don’t Trust the Process” Daniel Bessner, an associate professor of the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization, reviews Barack Obama’s memoir A Promised Land (Crown, Nov. 2020), which Jacobin published on Feb. 8.
Mary Callahan pens article on ghosts of coups past in Myanmar // East Asia Forum
February 8, 2021
Associate Professor Mary Callahan authors a piece titled “Ghosts of coups past in Myanmar” to give context to the Feb. 1 military coup in Myanmar. The East Asia Forum
James Lin on Biden administration’s policy toward China and Taiwan // KUOW
February 8, 2021
James Lin, assistant professor and Associate Chair of the Taiwan Studies Program at the University of Washington gives his insights into the Biden administration’s policy toward China and Taiwan as part of this 3-minute radio KUOW
Mary Callahan quoted in media on recent Myanmar military coup
February 2, 2021
Jackson School Associate Professor Mary Callahan, an expert on Myanmar, is quoted in various media articles about the Feb. 1 overnight coup d’etat by the Myanmar military. NPR “General Who
Daniel Bessner on what Call of Duty video games say about US foreign policy // The Drift
February 2, 2021
In an article titled “First-Person Shooter Ideology | The Cultural Contradictions of Call of Duty” Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization Daniel Bessner, an associate professor, reviews the recent released new version of Call
New book by Anand Yang tells forgotten histories of Indian convicts in colonial Southeast Asia
February 1, 2021
In “Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia” (University of California Press, January 2021) Jackson School and History Professor Anand Yang, also former chair of the department of history and
A conversation with Reşat Kasaba on researching Turkey and the world // Afikra news
January 29, 2021
Jackson School Professor Reşat Kasaba, an expert in Middle East politics and a former director of the Jackson School and president of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs,
Q&A with Robert Pekkanen on his new co-authored edition of The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems
January 27, 2021
On February 5, 2021, Oxford University Press will publish the first paperback edition of “The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems,” a book co-edited by Jackson School Professor Robert Pekkanen, also
Doctoral student Yasir Zaidan on Sudan’s transitional national security // African Arguments
January 25, 2021
First-year doctoral student in international studies, Yasir Zaidan, pens an article titled “Sudan’s transitional national security” on how Sudan’s revolution is going through a tough transition following the removal of ex-President