Middle East & Africa
"With an educational system engineered solely through political desires, it will eventually be challenging for Turkey to find the qualified, competent cadres that it desperately requires in the midst of the economic and social crises that loom over the nation."
Winter 2018
Education
For decades, the United States has depended on its armor of 'soft power' as the means for 'success in world politics.' Unfortunately, over the last four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, cultural diplomacy has fallen out of fashion, and American soft power capabilities have been severely damaged.
Employment & Immigration
"Placed into a system that tends to exploit immigrant labor, the unlucky ones go from blue-collar work to, in extreme cases, 100-hour work weeks inside clandestine labs."
The Americas
"It is far past time that the United States stares directly at the consequences of its involvement in Latin America and works to promote anti-discriminatory behavior abroad as much as it is seeking to do so within its borders."
Cybersecurity
Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) discusses the Safeguarding American Innovation Act, disinformation, WTO reforms, and US-Ukraine relations.
Middle East & Africa
"Online education has been on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa due to it being a cost-effective alternative to formal education as well as a way to widen educational opportunity."
Perspectives
Jason Hung is a visiting researcher at Stanford University, a Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) fellow at Clinton Foundation and a young leader at Pacific Forum. According to the Human Rights Watch (HRW), some 320,000 foreign domestic workers (FDWs), also known as migrant domestic workers, are employed in
Education
Emmanuel Macron. François Hollande. Jacques Chirac. What do three of the past four French presidents, a centrist, a leftist and a conservative, have in common? They were all educated at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), a French postgraduate school widely considered a pathway to the upper echelons [https://en.
Education
Jason Hung worked as a socioeconomic transformation intern at United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). He now works as a country director of China at Global Peace Chain and a visiting student researcher at Rural Education Action Program (REAP), Stanford University. He is a
Education
President of Yale-NUS Pericles Lewis. Originally published in the HIR Summer 2013 Issue. There are worrying signs today that the United States is turning away from the tradition of liberal arts education that has made it a global leader in post-secondary education over the past century. Universities are cutting language