Newsroom

June 10, 2020

The Pacific Council has launched a new platform for our member-written commentary and analysis. We are unveiling the Pacific Council Magazine, where you can find pieces written by our members on local-to-global topics, plus member spotlights and recaps and recordings from our events. Bookmark the new Pacific Council Magazine at pacificcouncil.online.

All previously published Newsroom articles are available below in the Newsroom Archive.

Please note that all upcoming events will still appear at our main website, pacificcouncil.org, or by visiting the Activities menu above.

May 20, 2021

CONTINUING OUR COLLABORATION ON FOREIGN REPORTING WITH USC

September 17, 2020

A GUIDE TO CALIFORNIA'S LOCAL-TO-GLOBAL BALLOT MEASURES

May 20, 2021

CONTINUING OUR COLLABORATION ON FOREIGN REPORTING WITH USC

For a third year, we teamed up with Philip Seib, a long-time Pacific Council member and renowned faculty member at Annenberg, for a graduate-level class on foreign reporting, writes Justin Chapman.

June 5, 2020

THE EDUCATION OF AN IDEALIST: A CONVERSATION WITH AMB. POWER

Ambassador Samantha Power spoke with Ambassador Nancy Rubin about the global crisis of the pandemic and how values-based leadership—especially from the United States—is a necessary part of the solution.

June 4, 2020

WHAT DOES WASHINGTON WANT FROM CHINA?

Pique is not a policy, writes Christopher Hill.

May 15, 2020

YUKIO OKAMOTO, FORMER COUNCIL DIRECTOR: AN APPRECIATION

Abraham Lowenthal remembers Yukio Okamoto, a distinguished Japanese diplomat, trusted senior advisor to successive prime ministers of his country, influential international consultant, and a long time Board member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, who recently passed away from COVID-19.

May 13, 2020

THE WORLD IS HELPING AMERICANS WHO DON'T ALWAYS SEE IT

Cities and states are using international support to cope. They need to plan for global partnership to recover, writes Heather Hurlburt.

May 11, 2020

ABOUT THE MAY VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB BOOK

Learn more about our Virtual Book Club and sign up today.

May 7, 2020

COVID-19 AND THE MIDDLE EAST'S 'COLD WAR'

The pandemic has altered our temporal imagination and accelerated political tensions in the Middle East, writes Ibrahim Al-Marashi.

May 5, 2020

INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM IS A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT

If Americans refuse to meaningfully address race relations, the United States will grow weaker and less effective both at home and as an international actor, write Jerrold D. Green and Michael Lawson.

May 1, 2020

JANE OLSON: THE PACIFIC COUNCIL IS A WEST COAST INSTITUTION

Jane Olson discusses her role in the early days of the Pacific Council, what role LA can and should play on the international stage, and what she hopes the Council will look like in the years to come.

April 28, 2020

THE DAY THE MUSLIM WORLD'S FIRST DEMOCRACY FELL

April 28 marks 100 years since the Soviet Red Army invaded Azerbaijan and put an end to the very first secular democracy in the Muslim world—the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, writes Nasimi Aghayev.

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