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Kishore Mahbubani is a distinguished fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute and the author of Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy. He was selected as a FOREIGN POLICY Global Thinker in 2010 and 2011. Janine di Giovanni is an author, foreign correspondent, senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and columnist at FOREIGN POLICY. Her latest book is The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches From Syria. Nikhil Kumar is a writer and journalist based in New Delhi and a former bureau chief in South Asia for Time magazine and CNN. Rim-Sarah Alouane is a legal scholar, commentator, and Ph.D. candidate in comparative law at Toulouse Capitole University in France, focusing on religious freedom, civil liberties, constitutional law, and human…

In a February survey, 96 percent of German businesses active in China said they planned to stay there. That’s because there’s money to be made. There is, alas, also the matter of image. In a 2020 report, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) reported that 27 factories in nine Chinese provinces were using Uyghur workers from Xinjiang, including forcibly interned ones. “Those factories claim to be part of the supply chain of 82 well-known global brands,” ASPI found, and “some factories appear to be using Uyghur workers sent directly from ‘re-education camps.’” Although Beijing does not allow outside observers access to the camps, ex-inmates who have managed to leave China have provided harrowing accounts of systematic rape of female detainees and other crimes. The brands identified by ASPI include Abercrombie…

If and when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leads the Conservative Party into another election, the contest will almost certainly be dominated by his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Prior to his government’s seemingly effective vaccination campaign, Johnson’s performance did not have many defenders: Britain suffered proportionally more deaths in each of the successive waves of outbreaks than many countries in Europe and endured more severe lockdowns as well. For Johnson’s critics, this was more than a product of poor luck but rather entirely in keeping with his eccentric personality and absentminded approach to governance when denied his preferred role as the purveyor of positive news. Johnson hasn’t made it easy for his supporters to defend his managerial skills. But there is another line of defense available, one that the…

For most policymakers in Latin America, the best way to react to growing geopolitical tensions between the United States and China is obvious: stay neutral. Given Latin America’s geographic proximity to the United States, growing economic dependence on China, and historic aversion to long-standing alliances that limit strategic autonomy, leaders across the ideological spectrum have largely decided to embrace a pragmatic stance and maintain friendly ties with both Washington and Beijing. With few exceptions, this strategy was largely seen to be a winning formula in recent years. Chile’s rightwing president, Sebastián Piñera, for example, sought to present himself as the region’s most trusted interlocutor for both former U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Mauricio Macri, Argentina’s center-right former president, and his center-left successor, Alberto Fernández, have likewise…

In 2003, the director Barbara Kopple set out to make a documentary about the work of five female reporters in Iraq. In Bearing Witness, Kopple—best known for her Oscar-winning portrayal of a grueling coal miners’ strike in Appalachia—turned her camera on the work of women reporting war. She showed the sexism and grittiness but also women struggling with personal travails and demons—alcoholism, loneliness, and, in my case as one of the women, combining motherhood with war. Reading Elizabeth Becker’s new book, You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War, I realize how little changed in terms of infiltrating an old boys’ club between Vietnam in the 1960s and ’70s, when Becker’s book is set, and Iraq three decades later. Even today—despite massive changes in technology and…

The seismic impact of COVID-19 has catalyzed many of us to take action to change our futures. As an illustration, Europe’s business schools saw a 24% increase in applications last year, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council, with experts predicting 2021 will see even stronger competition to secure places at the most admired institutions. At the same time, those top schools and universities are reshaping the future of management education to meet the substantially different needs that global students, businesses and society will have in the post-COVID era. “In an increasingly complex and globalized environment, the rapid disruption caused by the pandemic prepared the ground for a new mandate for management schools,” explains Eric Cornuel, president at EFMD Global, the leading accreditation body for business schools and their programs.…

Founded in Rome in 1966 with the task of educating leaders for Italy and for serving a larger community, Luiss Business School (businessschool.luiss.it/en/) takes an authentic and personal approach to creating “better leaders for a better world” that is grounded on an adaptive, boundless and lifelong learning strategy. Today, the school’s offering goes far beyond business: it generates processes of transformation, encouraging an attitude of change so that its students become leaders who help the development of the business community in a sustainable way. “We have always worked closely with our stakeholders, as a member of a community: not just in the academic environment but also the corporate sector, steering in an effective way to educate leaders for their needs and society,” says Dean Paolo Boccardelli. Luiss Business School’s mission…

“Fletcher alums are comfortable walking into rooms where they have a unique set of skills and a unique expertise and then trying to find common ground and explain important concepts.”-Josephine Wolff, Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University There's a statistic cited often about The Fletcher School at Tufts University: 95 percent of Fletcher students accept a position within six months of graduating. While COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the job market for recent graduates, Fletcher graduates are finding employment at privatesector giants, such as Facebook and Twitter. They work in influential public-sector agencies, including the US Department of State and the US Agency for International Development. Fletcher grads also go to the nonprofit world, landing coveted jobs at organizations such as the Bill &…

“The International Security program at the Schar School prepares students to handle enduring and emerging challenges-a skill set that has never been more in demand.” -Ellen Laipson, Director, Master's in International Security program, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University More than a year into the pandemic, the career trajectory for students in George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government remains solid. While many industries have been hard-hit, the skills that students are acquiring in the Schar School are still in high demand. "Our students graduate with a wide range of cross-disciplinary knowledge as well as training in leadership skills. They know how to assess an issue and adapt to new challenges. If anything, the pandemic has only highlighted the need for employees with this kind…

2020 proved the resilience in Jamaican tourism, an issue close to Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett’s heart. “Tourism is a central pillar for many economies. It creates jobs, revenue and development; builds people, knowledge and capacity. Tourism is an industry that must survive the shocks of our time. We needed to build out support mechanisms to ensure that the sector’s vulnerabilities don’t overtake its capacity to manage, recover and thrive after crises. That’s why Jamaica established the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre in 2018,” he explains. “It provides data that countries can access to prepare themselves to withstand contingencies like hurricanes, terrorism, economic or health crises. The center has also been measuring the resilience of countries to offer guidance for investors or travelers. Creating more resilience in communities…

When China reported its first outbreak of COVID-19, Japan went into high alert. After having suffered the 2011 earthquake and subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident, and seeing how fast other viruses had spread in the globalized world, Japan’s population and government were prepared for the unexpected. On Jan. 16, 2020, Japan detected its first infection. Less than two weeks later, the government had set up a national anti-coronavirus task force. Filled with scientific experts to whom the government was ready to defer, it aimed at controlling spread through “implementing a series of measures flexibly and swiftly, thinking outside the box and firmly understanding the characteristics of the virus,” in the words of then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Dr. Hitoshi Oshitani, Professor of Virology at Tohoku University, was one of the…

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the shortcomings of governments around the world.In Japan’s case, management of the health crisis was hampered by an outdated and cumbersome administrative system. While the country may be famed for its futuristic technology, some aspects of government appeared to still be operating in the last millennium. As social media was being used to conduct widespread surveys and provide support for people with the disease, many healthcare providers were faxing information about infections to public healthcare centers, where data was aggregated manually. When the government tried to send out nearly $1,000 to each resident, the process was significantly delayed by paper-based administrative procedures. People were told to submit applications online, but an unprepared system forced some local governments to accept mailin requests only. Looking to…

The US-led clampdown on Huawei’s 5G technology gave fresh momentum to Japan’s next-generation telecoms equipment. That’s not only thanks to Japan’s commitment to human rights but also because of the country’s open approach to 5G, which promises to shake up the future of mobile networks. For now, the 5G space is something of an oligopoly. In 2020, just three companies – Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia – controlled 77% of the entire global 5G base-station market share, according to research group TrendForce. Traditionally, network suppliers have provided mobile carriers with all-in-one bundles. As networks grew increasingly complex, just a few large companies became dominant, building entire networks or large components with proprietary technology. But Japan’s government and technology companies are hoping to help turn the tide. Companies like Rakuten, NTT DOCOMO,…

Read the full interviews at foreignpolicy.com/japanpresentfuture NEC “We are working to protect data privacy and security across our business operations”TAKAYUKI MORITA, PRESIDENT AND CEO, NEC NEC Corp is one of Japan’s leading ICT and electronics companies. In its 120-year history, it has pioneered a range of global technologies, most recently cutting-edge biometric authentication, 5G, facial recognition and AI. As the new CEO, what is your vision for the company? The world is becoming increasingly connected and network technologies will play a transformative role in not only changing how we communicate but how business is conducted across verticals. We expect industries to undergo important transformation in the next five to 10 years, and NEC has significant assets and capabilities to help drive this transformation. What is your strategy for the US…

WHEN U.S. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN TOOK OFFICE on Jan. 20, I couldn’t help but feel a little sorry for him. He was, after all, assuming power after a deadly siege on the Capitol—a horrific event that marked the country’s first-ever violent transfer of power. Biden was also entering the White House amid the deadliest pandemic in a century and the worst job market in decades. His task was to not only fix those historic crises but rebuild Washington’s alliances abroad, tackle climate change, and address the growing challenge presented by China. Plus, to deal with all these issues, he had to somehow unite a deeply divided Congress, even as polls revealed that 3 out of 4 Republicans believed he was not the legitimate winner of the election. That’s a lot…

In recent years, the world has been regaled with stories about the crisis of expertise. The era of the liberal technocrat was over, we were told, killed off by the financial crisis and populism. But if democracies find it hard to live with expertise, it seems they can’t live without it either. At the start of 2021, two of the most contentious capitalist democracies in the world, Italy and the United States, turned to familiar experts to chart a way out of novel political situations. If there is such a thing as a technocrat, Janet Yellen, the new U.S. treasury secretary, and Mario Draghi, Italy’s new prime minister, are it. For the last 30 years, both Yellen and Draghi have held positions of high authority, culminating in the period between…

Spymaster’s Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression Jack Devine, Potomac Books “A splendid intelligence perspective on thug Putin’s determination to get even with us for the Russian loss of the Cold War…. Only the naïve and inept will fail to heed this message.” Tom Twetten, former CIA deputy director of operations World Almanac of Islamism 2021 edition American Foreign Policy Council, Rowman & Littlefield The American Foreign Policy Council’s World Almanac of Islamism is the definitive resource on political Islam and Islamic extremism, featuring sixty-two country studies and chapters on ten separate transnational movements. Rage: Narcissism, Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism Abigail R. Esman, Potomac Books “There has never been a book about terrorism quite like this…. The connections Esman makes are scholarly sound, deeply personal, and have an…

Widely recognized as one of the world’s leading management and economics schools due to the excellent quality and impact of its education and research, Switzerland’s HEC Lausanne at the University of Lausanne has been at the forefront of training for executives and future business leaders for over 100 years. “One thing that makes HEC Lausanne unique is that quantitative methods are a large part of the school’s DNA: the first economist at the university was Léon Walras, the father of mathematical economics,” says Dean Jean-Philippe Bonardi: “Thanks to this long tradition, our professors and students have a very strong position in quantitative analysis. Our school has also become very strong in business model innovation and other technologies. This has a significant impact on how we grasp the future and the…

With six campuses in Madrid, Turin, Warsaw, Berlin, London and Paris, multi-accredited ESCP is the continent’s oldest business school and the only one that is truly pan-European. “We are a leader in the sector because we know how to mix cultural pluralism and interdisciplinarity to help students develop a better understanding of global issues,” says Frank Bournois, the school’s dean and executive president. “Our mission is to educate students with a European approach, in which business, society and politics are intertwined, which essentially is what foreign policy is about, and we teach unique programs in intercultural management.” Providing a full portfolio of programs — including bachelors, master’s, MBAs, PhDs and executive education — to participants from 120 countries, ESCP utilizes a specific ‘PHYGITAL’ model for its teaching, so that all…

Over the last 35 years, four unicorns and over 500 startups have been created by students and alumni of Germany’s foremost business and management education provider: WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. “We’ve created an atmosphere that attracts these kinds of people. We look for excellence in everything we do, while our core values lean toward an entrepreneurial spirit, community focus and ‘cosmopoliteness,’ which represents inclusion, gender equality and international diversity,” explains Dean Markus Rudolf. With campuses in Vallendar in the Rhine Valley and the vibrant city of Dusseldorf, WHU addresses its entrepreneurial mindset to all its academic programs, executive education and research. Its study programs run from bachelor degrees to MBAs and executive MBAs, with the latest addition being a pioneering Global Online MBA for executives. Unlike some…

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Read the full interviews at foreignpolicy.com/japanpresentfuture Dr. Hiroshi Nishiura, Professor of Hygiene, Kyoto University His modeling and statistical analysis has been behind some of Japan’s big breakthroughs about how the virus spreads. Are you worried about what mutations could do to Japan’s fight against COVID-19? The new variant 501Y, first found in South Africa, has completely changed the story. The mutation makes it more infectious than others, and some evidence is beginning to suggest that the infection with that variant could be more severe. We are very concerned by some of the mutations that have emerged. Once the variant is introduced and widespread, originally planned hospital caseload demand would have to be revised. What lessons can be learned from Japan’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic that could be applied to…

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As soon as they were inaugurated, U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris started making good on their campaign promises. They reentered the Paris climate accord, renewed U.S. support for the World Health Organization, and ended the Trump administration’s travel bans targeting nationals of select Muslim-majority and African nations. Racial justice was also high on the list of issues that they identified as most pressing and requiring action in their first 100 days. On Jan. 26, Biden rolled out his administration’s first steps to advance racial equity and promote national unity and reconciliation. He issued four executive orders spanning issues that affect multiple racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States, namely Black, Latino, Indigenous, Asian, and Pacific Islander Americans. The first executive order directed the Department…

Australia, India, Japan, and the United States have perfectly legitimate concerns about China. It will be uncomfortable living with a more powerful China. And it’s equally legitimate for them to hedge by cooperating in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, informally known as the Quad. Unfortunately, the Quad will not alter the course of Asian history for two simple reasons: First, the four countries have different geopolitical interests and vulnerabilities. Second, and more fundamentally, they are in the wrong game. The big strategic game in Asia isn’t military but economic. Australia is the most vulnerable. Its economy is highly dependent on China. Australians have been proud of their remarkable three decades of recession-free growth. That happened only because Australia became, functionally, an economic province of China: In 2018-2019, 33 percent of its…

For more than two decades, the United States has seen the politics of the Middle East as a tug of war between moderation and radicalism—Arabs against Iran. But for the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, it was blind to different, more profound fissures growing among the region’s three non-Arab powers: Iran, Israel, and Turkey. For the quarter century after the 1956 Suez crisis, Iran, Israel, and Turkey joined forces to strike a balance against the Arab world with U.S. help. But Arab states have been sliding deeper into paralysis and chaos since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, followed by the failed Arab Spring, leading to new fault lines. Indeed, the competition most likely to shape the Middle East is no longer between Arab states and Israel or…

Did any U.S. president ever have a more ominous first hundred days? Fearing assassination, he slunk into Washington under the cover of night, in disguise, and registered without public notice at a hotel near the White House. No sooner had he taken the oath of office than he began to violate it, suspending habeas corpus and arresting dissidents without trial. Meanwhile, no matter what he tried, the nation literally fell apart around him. Yet that president, Abraham Lincoln, is today considered one of America’s greatest—the greatest in the eyes of many historians. That in turn suggests that the first hundred days metric is hardly an accurate measure of presidential success. First used by Franklin D. Roosevelt three score and eight years after Lincoln’s death—when FDR rushed through emergency legislation in…

Welcome to the age of humans—the Anthropocene. Scientists, academics, public intellectuals, and policymakers have been using this term to describe a new geological epoch marking an unprecedented era of human impact on the natural environment. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, carrying through the development and testing of nuclear weapons, and peaking in recent decades with rapid global warming and the catastrophic depletion of the Earth’s biodiversity, the Anthropocene is often framed as an existential threat to the survival of the human species. Like some of the great environmental catastrophes of the past—such as the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago—the footprint of human activity will be present in the geological record for millions of years to come. Or so the…

“Our graduates have weathered this pandemic exceptionally well. Most of their skill set adapts easily to remote work, and they have been finding employment in all sectors.” -Rae Ann BoriesEasley, Director of the Office of Career and Professional Development, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver The University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies leverages its flourishing alumni network to help its students navigate job searching during COVID-19, by hosting virtual networking events and connecting students with alumni mentors. "The silver lining of the pandemic is that we have a very active alumni group who are in jobs all over the world," says Rae Ann Bories-Easley, director of the Office of Career and Professional Development at the Korbel School. "We have been working very closely with…

“They can tailor their program to their passion and to where the [job] market is. What they get from Thunderbird is a digital global mindset and a really strong understanding of these new technologies.”-Sanjeev Khagram, CEO, Director General, and Dean, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University Even pre-pandemic, the world's digital transformation made traditional MBA programs too generic to train the types of employees that companies needed, so the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University pivoted. A new Master of Global Management offers core classes such as accounting (but with insight into blockchain) and also allows students to pick one or two specialties to build deep expertise. The choices: global entrepreneurship, data science, sustainable tourism, and more. Some of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics…

“Students have the flexibility to gain learning and practice experiences that prepare them for career opportunities, from local governments and community-based organizations to federal agencies and global NGOs.” -Carissa Schively Slotterback, Dean, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh In the changing world of public service-where local governments are addressing problems such as climate change, and the United Nations and other multilateral organizations are tackling issues related to urbanization-students at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) learn that there are many ways to serve the public good. While the US Department of State and CIA employ many of GSPIA's graduates, others find equally meaningful work in a range of sectors, for example, working to improve the lives of recently resettled refugee…

While travel to many other countries remains restricted, Jamaica continues to offer a much-needed vibrant burst of sunshine to the world’s tourists. Since reopening its borders in June, the island that consistently ranks as the top Caribbean destination at the World Travel Awards has safely welcomed back 264,152 guests between June 15 and December 31 2020, who have rushed to embrace its famous and uniquely diverse culture, seek adventure in its lush tropical lands, mist-covered mountains and turquoise sea, or just relax on its peerless sandy beaches. “In June 2020, we became only the third country to receive the World Travel and Tourism Council’s Seal of Safe Travel Approval,” notes Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett. “By establishing resilience corridors to create a safe bubble for tourists we have been able…

Japan’s government believes that technological innovation has been the driving force of societal change. First the agricultural revolution, then the industrial one. Now, the rise of the internet has led us to the information age. But with the unprecedented speed of technological advances, Japan’s government believes civilization is again at the dawn of a new era. Soon, almost everything will be able to be digitally connected. At the same time, through tools like AI, we will have the power to analyze the massive amount of data coming from connected devices and derive insights in real-time. Cyberspace and physical space will further converge, creating a super-smart society. With this revolution still in its infancy, societies still have a choice for where it can go. One is for policy-makers to watch indifferently…