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SMU Tower Center Sun & Star Webinar on Japan and East Asia in Partnership with SMU Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center: Networked Japanese Investment in Mexico’s Automotive Sector: Cooperation, Small-and-Medium-Sized Enterprises and Challenges Under the USMCA

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 […]

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Sun & Star Webinar: Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies

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 […]

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Sun and Star: Networked Japanese Investment in Mexico’s Automotive Sector

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 […]

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Sun & Star: The Future of the Alliance Under President Biden and Prime Minister Suga

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 […]

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Sun & Star Webinar: From Abe to Suga: Japan’s Embattled Prime Minister and the Legacy of His Long-Tenured Predecessor

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 […]

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Sun & Star: The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century

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 […]

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Sun & Star Webinar Series: The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century

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 […]

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Expert Spotlight Sun & Star

The Case for a Strong China

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 […]

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Sun & Star: The Business Reinvention of Japan

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 […]

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Sun & Star: China and the Japanese Multinational – Politics and the Risk of Doing Business

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 […]