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Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) last week selected former foreign minister Fumio Kishida as its new leader, which means that he likely will become the country's 100th prime minister. Kishida soon will stand at the helm of the incumbent LDP coalition, which has approached or won a two-thirds supermajority in the last three elections, countering opposition parties in the upcoming general election. Some might argue that even though a man, yet again, will become the next prime minister, there are signs that his successor, at long last, might be a woman.
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The once-strong alliance between South Korea and the U.S. is weakening. In fact, the alliance is in trouble — pulled apart by powerful geopolitical forces. The only way to save it might be for South Korea to move in a direction that much of Washington considers unthinkable: to develop an independent nuclear arsenal.
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Professor Ezzedine Fishere (Government and Middle Eastern Studies) discusses Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi and his promise for human rights reform in Fishere's latest opinion piece in The Washington Post. Read the full article in English or Arabic.
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Research by Dartmouth Professors Brendan Nyhan and Sean Westwood cited in the New York Times. "As Trump rose to the presidency, one explanation that swept political science was the power of polarization, specifically a phenomenon known as affective polarization, but a keen group of scholars now suggests that this approach is inadequate." Here the full essay here.
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