Study shows how election interference affects public opinion from abroad.
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It has been argued that South Korea's withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and its own nuclear armament are legitimate and justified. Daryl Press, a professor at Dartmouth College in the US, said that North Korea's development of long-range missiles has reduced the credibility of the US nuclear umbrella, and that South Korea should seek ways to strengthen deterrence on its own.
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On December 16, Japan took a major step toward becoming a "normal" world power by approving dramatic changes to its decades-old policy of military restraint. Under its new national security strategy, Japan will not only double its military spending, adding some $315 billion to its defense budget over the next five years. It will also develop a new "counterstrike" capability enabling it to conduct retaliatory attacks on enemy territory—a remarkable departure from its previous policy.
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Rep. Ann Kuster '78, Harry Enten '11, Russ Muirhead and Dean Lacy offer perspective.
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"We seem to have, at least temporarily, returned to a kind of politics of normalcy," said John Carey, a government professor at Dartmouth College and co-founder of Bright Line Watch, a multi-university effort to assess the state of American democracy. "In this most recent election, mainstream candidates were the ones to prevail."
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