Join us on May 31 for an EWC Insights event to discuss the extent and effect of US sanction on Russia, who might help Russia avoid these sanctions, and what it means for US-Indo-Pacific relations.
EWC Research Fellow Micah Fisher discusses how perennial flooding in Jakarta caused by climate change, heavy rainfall, and ongoing groundwater extraction regularly uproots lives and communities.
Journalists and opposition groups in Myanmar are closely watching developments in Ukraine to see what lessons they can apply to their own country’s struggle against antidemocratic military forces.
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EWC Senior Fellow Denny Roy writes in an OpEd for TIME Magazine that Biden's focus on common political values limits the number of potential seucirty parters in the Indo-Pacific. ...more...
The East-West Center honored more than 50 student participants completing their EWC programs May 5 at the Center’s first in-person spring completion ceremony since 2019. The honorees at the Ho‘opuka (“passing through”) Ceremony came from 22 countries and represented 35 different fields of study at the University of Hawai‘i, ranging from Asian international affairs and Hawaiian studies to plant pathology and law. ...more...
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In some ways, the crisis in Europe has strengthened US relationships in Asia and the Pacific, says East-West Center Vice President Satu Limaye in our latest East-West Wire analysis. ...more...
After a two-year pandemic pause, the East-West Center is delighted to be resuming in-person public events. Recently, more than 500 EWC students, friends and family celebrated their diverse home cultures and a joyful reemergence from pandemic restrictions at the Center’s resumed annual East-West Fest cultural fair. This summer, the Center will be hosting two of its signature events—the EWC International Media Conference, immediately followed by an International Alumni Conference. ...more...
At a recent East-West Center online discussion moderated by NPR correspondent Julie McCarthy, panelists debated ways to reduce tension between Washington and Beijing. ...more...
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