Overview
Asia Dialogues advanced cross-cultural dialogue and offered critical insights on how to reimagine the international system.
APR 12, 2017 • Transcript
Pacific Delegates (2017)
Carnegie Council's Asia Dialogues program is leading a weeklong fact-finding trip to Yogyakarta, Indonesia, during October 2017. Amid growing Islamophobia and populism in Europe and the ...
APR 11, 2017 • Podcast
"In Cambodia, 'democracy' is just a term . . ."
Phnom Penh-based human rights lawyer Sophorn Sek discusses the state of his nation's governance in this eye-opening interview. From corruption and nepotism to suspicious murders ...
APR 4, 2017 • Podcast
Nuclear War with North Korea?
The North Koreans are not crazy, says Korea scholar Joel S. Wit. They have valid reasons for feeling threatened and their nuclear strategy has actually ...
MAR 27, 2017 • Podcast
Duterte's Drug War and Human Rights in the Philippines and Southeast Asia
President Duterte has created a human rights calamity, says Phelim Kine of Human Rights Watch. In just over over eight months, 7,000 of the poorest, most ...
MAR 22, 2017 • Podcast
Indonesia's Jihadists, and the Rise of Female Terrorists
Indonesia is sometimes described as "the smiling face of Islam," but the reality is much more complex. Naraniyah explains the shifting landscape of Indonesian Islamic ...
MAR 8, 2017 • Podcast
Pankaj Mishra on our "Age of Anger"
"I think the reason why so many people feel angry and disaffected is that too much has been promised to them in recent decades and ...
MAR 2, 2017 • Article
Integrating the Roles of Women into Japan's Climate Change Strategies
Among Shinzo Abe's most important initiatives are Cool Earth 50 to reduce greenhouse gases and Womenomics to increase women's participation in the labor force. Yet despite ...
FEB 23, 2017 • Podcast
A "Chaotic" White House, and the U.S. Role in Asia and the World
In this outspoken and thoughtful interview, former State Department adviser Eliot Cohen expresses his dismay at the "chaotic and very badly run administration" and discusses ...
FEB 23, 2017 • Podcast
Geoeconomics and Statecraft: Is China Outdoing the United States?
Co-author of "War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft," Jennifer Harris defines geoeconomics as "the use of economic instruments to achieve specific geopolitical results." Why ...
FEB 22, 2017 • Podcast
Trump and the "Trilateral Relationship" in Northeast Asia
Asia expert and former Bush administration official Michael Green discusses the recent meeting between Trump and Abe and what may come of it, on trade ...