Policy Alert #95 | March 6, 2015 Last month, President Barack Obama held a world anti-terrorism summit in Washington, D.C., calling on more than 60 nations to…
Country or Region: Japan
Policy Alert #94 | February 20, 2015 After sixteen-hours of diplomatic talks in Minsk last week, leaders from Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany reached a…
Policy Alert #92 | January 21, 2015 The terrorist attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which killed 12 people including the editor and four other…
Policy Alert #91 | January 14, 2015
The hacking attack allegedly conducted by North Korea against Sony Pictures Entertainment led the company to temporally cancel the Christmas day release of its controversial film The Interview, a movie about an assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. This cyberattack generated worldwide discussions on freedom of speech and cyber security. In this Policy Alert, we examine commentary from China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, India, and Brazil on the hacking incident.
CHINA
Chinese officials urged restraint from both North Korea and the United States.
December 11, 2014 Read the PDF version of this brief. The issue of nationalism in Asia has gained attention in recent years as two new…
Policy Alert #89 | December 3, 2014 Protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, and spread across the country after a grand jury on November 24 decided…
Policy Alert #87 | November 13, 2014 Over the past several days, world leaders gathered in Beijing to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit,…
Policy Alert #86 | October 28, 2014 On Sunday, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff won her second term in a hotly contested runoff election against the…
Policy Alert #85 | October 20, 2014 Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters marched on the streets in Hong Kong last week in response to…
Policy Alert #84 | September 20, 2014 As President Barack Obama unveiled his plan to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State (IS) in Syria,…
Policy Alert #83 | September 17, 2014 During Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s five-day trip to Japan last week, the two governments declared “the opening…
Policy Alert #82 | August 27, 2014 Fighting between Israel and the Palestinians ensued over the past month in response to the kidnappings and murders…
Policy Alert #80 | August 27, 2014 As the death toll by the Ebola virus continues to rise in West Africa, the World Health Organization…
