Read the latest news, commentary, and analysis from the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia.
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In a conversation moderated by Edward Cunningham, Director of Ash Center China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, Dr. Ely Ratner joins the Rajawali Foundation to examine U.S. strategy in the Indo-Pacific, highlighting key geopolitical risks, private sector implications, and the region’s strategic and economic importance.
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In a conversation moderated by Edward Cunningham, Director of Ash Center China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, Dr. Ely Ratner joins the Rajawali Foundation to examine U.S. strategy in the Indo-Pacific, highlighting key geopolitical risks, private sector implications, and the region’s strategic and economic importance.
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A Q&A with Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-author of a new paper exploring strategic challenges that anticorruption agencies (ACAs) and other comparable bodies face with a focus on case selection and communication strategies, and the implications for practioners and reformers working to strengthen anticorruption institutions in Asia and beyond.
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A summary of the Wednesday, April 8 event exploring the legal and political stakes of Students for Fair Admissions’ (SFFA) new case and what it means for Native Hawaiian self-determination.
Essay
A summary of the December 11-12, 2025 conference, jointly organized by the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, John F. Kennedy; School of Government, Harvard University; East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS); and the National School of Development, Peking University.
In Partnership with Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS.
Essay
A summary of the event, co-hosted by the Rajawali Foundation Institute of Asia and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Q+A
M. Chatib Basri answers questions about his paper, exploring Indonesia’s strategic alignment and leverage, maritime position, and the implications of domestic reform on Indonesia’s regional impact.
Q+A
Ning Leng, Assistant Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and former postdoc at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, answers questions on her newly released book Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China, exploring politics, economy and authoritarian institutions in China.
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The second day of Fifty Years On: New Perspectives on the Vietnam Wars continued the conversations from Day One, exploring the wars’ lasting global and human impact. Building on the first day’s scholarship and personal reflections, Day Two featured three panels and a final roundtable. A first article covers Day One.
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The first day of the Fifty Years On: New Perspectives on the Vietnam Wars conference presented new scholarship and firsthand reflections that expanded how the Vietnam Wars are remembered and studied. Scholars, veterans, and practitioners examined the conflict from multiple perspectives, centering Vietnamese and other international voices often missing from traditional narratives. A second article covers Day Two.