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 2, 2020

TAKING A STAND

A statement of support from the leadership team at the Pacific Council on International Policy.

June 1, 2020

HONG KONG DEMOCRATS MAY FEEL 'EXIT' IS THEIR ONLY OPTION

While Beijing’s most recent threat to Hong Kong will likely end most vestiges of the “one country, two systems” policy, the Special Administrative Region appeared to have already arrived at a critical juncture in its political decline, write Brandon Alexander Millan and Joel S. Fetzer.

May 11, 2020

FROM JAPANESE INCARCERATION TO COVID: THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE

The Pacific Council and the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) recently hosted a discussion with John Tateishi, author of Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations, in conversation with Karen Ishizuka, chief curator at JANM.

May 6, 2020

THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: CRISIS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Experts discussed how COVID-19 is impacting developing countries on a recent webcast.

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 30, 2020

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE RIGHT NOW

Leaders of developing countries are worrying about their health and safety just as their medical systems come under assault, writes Grant Harris.

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.

April 21, 2020

State Dept.’s Venezuela Plan a Step in the Right Direction

International consensus could possibly lay the foundation for Venezuelans to undertake the difficult but desperately needed turn to national reconciliation and reconstruction, write David Smilde and Abraham Lowenthal.

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