Through our books, case studies, journal articles, papers, and surveys, the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia is home to some of Harvard’s most advanced research and publications on issues related to the region.
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Occasional Paper
The Determining Elements of the New Great Power Competition: Unpacking the Race for Technological Supremacy
In his latest occasional paper, Ronen Medzini, Rajawali Fellow, explains that while the US and China are not strangers to the “great power” competition, technology supremacy has superseded ideology as what lies at the crux of these dynamics. He goes on to examine critical technologies, their key attributes, and their impacts on national security, commerce, and society while exploring strategies for achieving technological superiority.
From Disinformation to Radicalization: A Detailed Look at the Impact on AAPI and Latinx Communities
The 2020 election and January 6th insurrection underscored the extent to which disinformation impacts political discourse and democratic norms in the United States. Many pundits, academics, activists, and politicians discuss the effects of disinformation in American life, yet these conversations lack a thorough evaluation of how disinformation and even radicalization specifically impact Latinx and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. This panel aimed to fill this gap, focusing on how members of these communities have accessed, reacted, and forged new identities because of disinformation campaigns. This event was co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the AAPI Caucus, and Latinx Caucus at Harvard Kennedy School.
Panelists included:
Sonja Diaz, Founding Director, Latino Policy & Politics Initiative, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Minh-Thu Pham, Co-Founder, New American Voices, and Board Member, PIVOT (the Progressive Vietnamese American Organization)
Dr. Jonathan Corpus Ong, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mariana Ruiz Firmat (Moderator), Executive Director, Kairos and AY 2020-2021 Technology and Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School
Cassandra Duchan Saucedo, HKS MPP/Stanford MBA 2023, gave welcome and Nick Sung, HKS MPP 2021, moderated audience Q&A.
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