Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Columbia University, published an article titled "Weak Opposition Makes Japan Look Like a One-Party System" in the September 18, 2016 The Australian Financial Review. "Japan's political party system will be re-invented, one way or another," Professor Curtis writes."It is possible that reinvention will … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan Asks “Who is Kim Jong-un?” in The New York Review of Books and on WBUR’s “Here and Now”
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, wrote the article "Who is Kim Jong-un?" in the August 18, 2016 edition of The New York Review of Books. On September 14, 2016, Professor Nathan talked with host Jeremy Hobson on WBUR Radio's "Here and Now" about the mysterious North Korean dictator. Examining the historical and social … [Read more...]
Myron L. Cohen Receives the First Class Professional Medal in Hakka Affairs
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that Myron L. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and former Institute director, received the First Class Professional Medal in Hakka Affairs on September 10, 2016 at the opening ceremony of the Fourth Taiwan International Conference on Hakka Studies. The Hakka Affairs Council presented … [Read more...]
New Courses Offered for Fall 2016
WEAI is pleased to share several newly added Fall 2016 courses with the Columbia University community: New for Fall 2016 GLOBAL HONG KONG Professor Peter E. Hamilton, Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in the Making of the Modern Pacific World Thursdays, 10:10 AM - 12:00 PM Fayerweather Hall, Room 301 M History: East Asian GU 4844 Call Number 75954 Open to … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Sheena Chestnut Greitens’ “Dictators and Their Secret Police”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the … [Read more...]
