We congratulate Sheena Chestnut Greitens, assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri, whose Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence was named the co-winner of the 2017 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) Section on Comparative … [Read more...]
Qin Gao Makes Video Presentation to the UNDP about Universal Basic Income in China
Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director, China Centre for Social Policy, at Columbia University, recently made a video presentation to the United Nations Development Programme about lessons from China's Dibao system that might help inform a Universal Basic Income (UBI) program for China. Professor Gao's presentation was part of an event about UBI that … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen to Deliver the Third Annual Judith Ladinsky Lecture at the University of Wisconsin – Madison
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, will deliver the Third Annual Judith Ladinsky Lecture at the University of Wisconsin - Madison on Friday, October 20, 2017. Professor Nguyen's lecture is titled "Rethinking the Tet Offensive Fifty Years Later." Although the Tet Offensive … [Read more...]
Robert Barnett talks to the Washington Post about Tibetans in Exile in India
Modern Tibetan Studies Director Robert Barnett (Retired January 2018) was quoted in The Washington Post in an October 9, 2017 article titled "After Nearly Six Decades of Exile, Some Tibetans in India are Slowly Letting Go of the Past." The article examines how the opportunity for Tibetans in exile in India to apply for Indian nationality poses a dilemma: "Take the passport, … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan Writes About “The Chinese World Order” in The New York Review of Books
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, has published the new article "The Chinese World Order" in the October 12, 2017 edition of The New York Review of Books. In the article, Professor Nathan reviews three new books on China's global power: The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most … [Read more...]
