The case of Carlos Ghosn  – former world traveler and head of Nissan Motors, Renault and Mitshibishi until arrested in Japan and held in confinement for 130 days while being vigorously and continually questioned by Japanese prosecutors presents an interesting … Read more

On 22 May 2014, a military junta calling itself the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) launched a coup and ousted the elected government in Thailand. On 16 July 2019, the NCPO formally ceased to exist when a new … Read more

Joel S. Wit is currently a visiting scholar at the U.S.-Korea Institute and a senior research fellow at Columbia University for East Asian Studies.  Mr. Wit received his M.I.A. from Columbia University in 1979 and his B.A. from Bucknell University … Read more

In 1949, with Mao and the Communists’ victory over Chiang Kai-Shek and the nationalists, China was split in two. The nationalists retreated to the island of Taiwan/Formosa and established the Republic of China there. Ever since, a bitter standoff with … Read more

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS APSA-USKI Graduate Publication Seminar October 26-28, 2015 – Washington, DC The American Political Science Association (APSA) and the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS (USKI) are pleased to announce a Call for Applications for PhD students and early-career faculty … Read more