Jessica Chen Weiss is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Research Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Her research focuses on Chinese politics and international relations, nationalism, and social protest. She earned her Ph.D. in…
Andrei Cherny, who previously served as Chair of the Arizona Democratic Party and Arizona Assistant Attorney General, is running for Congress in Arizona’s 9th Congressional District. He is the co-founder and president of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, as well…
A new, completely unprecedented pattern of political resistance has swept across the Tibetan plateau. In the past year, more than 30 Tibetans have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule, in what amounts to one of the world’s…
China’s Dissident Extraordinaire The Arab Spring did not quite make it to China. There, the Jasmine Revolution met a premature end, halted at the cyberspace stage of indiscriminate calls for action. The Chinese government responded swiftly to the protests, dispatching…
