Articles & Reports

FEB 16, 2016 • Article

Urban Chinese women face mounting challenges in the contemporary era of "reprivatized womanhood." But it was not always that way.

FEB 11, 2016 • Article

Why did the Occupy Movement, that should have resonated with 99 percent of the population, lack the support to achieve the changes that it sought?

FEB 11, 2016 • Article

Despite a host of cultural and structural difficulties, Japanese business culture is slowly becoming more welcoming to start-ups, writes Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Devin Stewart ...

FEB 10, 2016 • Article

In Tuas View, an industrial neighborhood in Singapore, migrant workers have little reason to leave their buildings. They live in a 15,000 square foot dormitory, where ...

FEB 5, 2016 • Article

From the standpoint of ethics of war, the conflict in the eastern region of the DRC would be deemed to be justifiable because it fills ...

FEB 4, 2016 • Article

Is using a nuclear weapon morally permissible under some circumstances? Is it ethical to implement nuclear deterrence (threatening to use atomic weapons) as a self-defense ...

JAN 28, 2016 • Article

The geographical, national, or ethnic East-West division in human rights thinking is increasingly irrelevant. Instead, multiple layers of horizontal solidarity have been formed through global ...

JAN 28, 2016 • Article

At a time when U.S. primacy is in doubt, when many are concerned that China might become a global political power, when the threat ...

JAN 26, 2016 • Article

When the Asian financial crisis of 1997 blunted the so-called "Asian Economic Miracle," critics--many Westerners, but also Asians tired of the tendentious claims of their cultural ...