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Struggle to Prepare the Workforce for a Fast-Changing World

November 16, 2017
Businesses and families expect national education systems to train students for future jobs. “In truth, we know embarrassingly little about tomorrow’s jobs,” explains Joergen Oerstroem Moeller, author, economist and a visiting senior fellow with ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. “Education...

Re-Imagining Kinship

May 13, 2014
Valuing biological parenthood over other forms and the shame over childlessness is worldwide and can be pernicious. “Defining human relatedness through genes and blood has been a predominant and often unquestioned notion across most cultures,” explains Amrita Nandy, a Fox International Fellow at...

China and Saudi Arabia Converge on Pakistan

March 7, 2019
Pakistan received substantial US military and financial aid since 2001, and the Trump administration canceled those payments in 2018, with the president suggesting that the country doesn't "do anything for us." Pakistan still has support from China, an ally since 1962, and Saudi...

COVID-19 Travels 4 Meters? SCMP

March 11, 2020
China has identified more than 80,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, almost three times more than the rest of the world. The high numbers permit research that aids understanding the disease's spread. Officials advise keeping a safe distance up to 2 meters meter or 6 feet. Yet researchers tracked...

Indonesian Voters Debate Globalization

June 26, 2018
Indonesia, the world’s fifth most populous nation is “a sprawling, 3,000-year-old civilization with more than 360 ethnicities, 707 languages and dozens of religions,” writes foreign policy analyst Niruban Balachandran. “Perhaps this diversity and openness to trade and exchange contribute to...

Clearing Clouds Over the Karakoram Pass

March 29, 2004
Over the latter half of the 20th century, relations between China and Pakistan were anchored in large part on both countries' strategic interest in balancing India as a regional power. The Karakoram Highway, which runs for 500 miles between the two nations, is representative of those...

China’s Challenge to a US-Led World Order

March 26, 2019
The United States and the Soviet Union, convinced that their ideologies were incompatible, engaged in a Cold War during the latter part of the 20th century. Some suggest similar hostility emerges between the United States and a fast-rising China. “Chinese leaders repeatedly stress that China...

Stress in Indo-US Engagement?

July 30, 2019
India, like many other nations, faces numerous foreign policy challenges as well as doubts about a dependable partnership with the United States. Under the Trump administration, the United States has targeted numerous countries on trade imbalances and in June announced revocation of India’s special...
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