Asia Dialogues

Overview

Asia Dialogues advanced cross-cultural dialogue and offered critical insights on how to reimagine the international system.

Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OkTediMine.jpg">Ok Tedi Mine CMCA Review</a>

OCT 24, 2016 Podcast

Managing Resource Conflict with a Human Rights Approach

Earth Institute research scientist Joshua Fisher explores the links between natural resource management, conflict, and climate change in this conversation with Senior Fellow Devin Stewart. ...

CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panthera_tigris_corbetti_(Tierpark_Berlin)_832-714-(118).jpg">Lotse/Wikimedia</a>

OCT 21, 2016 Podcast

China, Japan, and America: Three Tigers on One Mountain?

"I don't think you can write about China and Japan without writing also about the United States," says journalist Richard McGregor. How has this complicated ...

OCT 19, 2016 Podcast

Inside an Apple iPhone Factory in China

What really goes on in an Apple factory in China? In this fascinating conversation, Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Devin Stewart talks to Dejian "Ken" Zeng, ...

Scene of suicide bomb attack, Jakarta, January 14, 2016. CREDIT: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/zaws4r4">Gunawan Kartapranata</a>. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC</a>)

OCT 4, 2016 Article

Southeast Asia—The Islamic State's New Front?

From Bangladesh to the Philippines, the Islamic State's efforts to win over South and Southeast Asians have been substantial and have increased over the past ...

USS "John S. McCain" and Philippine navy frigates BRP "Gregaorio del Pilar" & "Ramon Alcaraz" (Top to Bottom), South China Sea, 2014. <br>CREDIT: <a href="http://bit.ly/2cKolI3">U.S. Pacific Fleet</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/1jNlqZo">(CC)</a>

SEP 20, 2016 Podcast

The Philippines, the South China Sea, and the Many Sides of President Duterte

Richard Heydarian, of Manila's De La Salle University, discusses the Philippines' landmark legal victory against China in the South China Sea dispute, and why the ...

Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte with a chart illustrating the drug trade network, July 2016. CREDIT: <a href="http://bit.ly/2bW3D42">King Rodriguez/Wikimedia</a>

SEP 8, 2016 Podcast

What to Make of Duterte's Philippines

John Gershman of NYU discusses with Carnegie Council's Devin Stewart the state of Filipino politics since the election of Rodrigo Duterte and where the country ...

SEP 7, 2016 Podcast

Living Together in Peace: Religious Diversity in Indonesia

"Indonesia is an interesting example of where increasing intensity of religious practices among Muslims and Christians is not the factor that creates conflict and violence. ...

Shanghai Selfie, March 2015. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/uketeecee/22500830257">Terry Chapman</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>

AUG 19, 2016 Podcast

What the Realities in China Mean for U.S. Policy

A frequent visitor to China, Professor Eisenman is an astute observer of the cataclysmic changes taking place there, from the emptying-out of the countryside to ...

Waseda University students. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ioelondon/8104365662/sizes/l">UCL institute of Education</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC</a>)

AUG 4, 2016 Article

Higher Education's Role in Japan's Recovery

Japan has been investing in major reforms to improve its higher education system and therefore its economy. The goal is to foster a new class ...

JUL 26, 2016 Podcast

Japan's Relationship with its Past and Future

Prime Minister Abe is the leading member of the small but powerful group Nippon Kaigi, which wants to turn its back on the international community ...