In a world more advanced in communication and transportation than ever before, driven by information technology, actors on one side of the globe can affect the societies and economies of […]
Category: Sun & Star
As the world becomes more globalized and people more mobile, immigration politics, migrant rights, and societal attitudes toward foreign workers are becoming increasingly important areas of research and understanding. In […]
Together with the Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center, the Tower Center’s Sun and Star program produced a lecture on Japanese investment in the automotive sector in Mexico on May 3. Discussing […]
The transfer of power between former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to current Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga inspires many questions about the future of Japanese foreign policy and its relationship […]
Just six months ago, Japan experienced the resignation of the prominent Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga filled this position. With the change in power amidst […]
Taking readers for a journey along China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s signature foreign-policy vision, Jonathan E. Hillman warns in his new book, The Emperor’s New Road, that […]
On February 25th, 2021, the SMU Tower Scholar Program invited Jonathan E. Hillman, author of The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century, to discuss Prime Minister […]
We gave our Highland Capital Management Tower Scholars carte blanche to interview our experts and ask anything they would like to know. Izzah Zaheer ’22 took this opportunity to speak […]
On Thursday, October 22, Ulrike Schaede, Professor of Japanese Business at the University of California, San Diego, School of Global Policy and Strategy discussed Japanese corporate management and adaptation to […]
With our highly globalized world, it seems that every country is interconnected through trade, diplomacy, or both; even those that might otherwise prefer to refrain from building a relationship due […]