Trump’s High-Stakes Asia Tour: Resetting Power at ASEAN and APEC

The SAIS International Law Society (ILS) returned in 2025, reviving after a pause during the pandemic years. Operating at the crossroads of international law and the many thematic focus areas that define SAIS—conflict and security, development, climate, governance, and beyond—the Society organizes panels, workshops, and screenings that examine how international law frameworks in...

China today is the second-largest economy in the world, and consequently, the course it decides to take has increasingly global ramifications. Understanding this was indeed part of my reason for choosing SAIS. However, one thing I have persistently noticed in China analysis is how decontextualized and non-holistic it can feel. Absent is the long historical […]

Two blocks down the street from our hotel, we saw it. The setting sun was still bright enough to illuminate the two large blue characters painted on a white sign mounted on top of a dilapidated building on the edge of Hunchun: 狗场, Gouchang.  The translation of the two characters was not immediately obvious. We […]

The AI age is here, but is this technology truly a golden ticket for a brighter future, or a complex bubble ready to burst? Experts are divided on this topic, as AI has been proven to be a revolutionary technology that has changed the face of the business world and significantly increased our productivity...

Today, in the year 2026, we can definitively state that humanity has reached farther into the stars than ever before. This is an accomplishment that should have filled us with joy, had the world in a vise grip, as we watched this month the astronauts of Artemis II explore strange new worlds and establish the […]