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May 31, 2010

Eurasian Nations and the Establishment of the Hatoyama Administration

OVERVIEW REPORT The Democratic Party of Japan has taken over the reins of government from the Liberal Democratic Party, and changes ...

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April 02, 2010

Japan’s Change of Government: Little Impact on Afghanistan and Pakistan

The birth of a new administration in Tokyo led by the Democratic Party of Japan has not made a major ...

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March 15, 2010

Russia’s Energy Resources and East Asian Security

Russia is rich in resources, especially in natural gas, and it is increasingly leveraging such assets into diplomatic clout. ...

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June 11, 2009

Connecting Japan and the Transatlantic Community

Fresh from two months in Brussels as the first recipient of the GMF-Tokyo Foundation Fellowship, the author discusses “the rise ...

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September 30, 2008

Can Aid Change Burma?

Susan Banki received a SYLFF fellowship between 1999 and 2002 while attending the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at ...

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September 30, 2008

Climate Change Response at a Crossroads

CER-based trading of emissions rights has long-term implications for global political and economic power distribution and raises ethical questions about ...

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September 30, 2008

Kenya’s Post-Election Violence

Have colonial ghosts come back to haunt Kenya? Taking a look at the recent violence that spread across what was ...

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September 30, 2008

A New Era in South Korean Foreign Policy?

On winning the presidential election, Lee Myung-bak formed the Presidential Transition Committee. An expert on Korean politics analyzes what will ...

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September 30, 2008

A War-Torn Land Finds a Road to Peace

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has endured two wars in the last ten years. A peace treaty has been ...

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September 30, 2008

Humanitarian and Neutral Focus of Red Cross Activities

Regional conflicts continue to occur for a variety of reasons and are growing in complexity. While diverse players engage in ...

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August 30

Introduction: Craft, Community, and the Cost of Global Capitalism

In a global economy awash in mass-produced goods, handicraft industries are apt to be treated as relics of the past ...

August 26

Japan, Russia, and the Future of Nuclear Energy (2)

In the second half of this two-part series, the author explores the complex interrelationship between nuclear energy cooperation and nuclear ...

August 20

Japan, Russia, and the Future of Nuclear Energy (1)

With energy demand soaring and global temperatures rising, nuclear power is poised to make a dramatic worldwide comeback. Japanese industry ...

August 10

Postal Reform and the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program: Toward Democratic Control of Government Finances (3)

Because Japan's postal savings system plays a major role in financing government programs, proposed changes to the privatization plan adopted ...

August 5

7. The Wicksellian Theory of Disequilibrium Cumulative Process

Wicksell's starting point was an attempt to reformulate the quantity theory of money from the neoclassical perspective. ...