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.

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

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

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, examines what the new version of Call of

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

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,

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

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

In “Japan’s space defence policy charts its own course” Jackson School Professor Saadia Pekkanen, also co-director of the University of Washington Space Policy and Research Center, analyzes why conflict in

In “How the QAnon Cult Stormed the Capitol” Daniel Bessner, an associate professor of the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization, co-authors an article exploring who and what are behind the