EAI Celebrates its Twentieth Anniversary and Grand Opening of Landmark Headquarters in Sajik-dong
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| 2022-06-14
On June 14, 2022, the East Asia Institute celebrated its 20th anniversary by welcoming esteemed guests, trustees, alumni, supporters, and member scholars to its new headquarters located in the heart of Seoul, adjacent to the historic property of the Sajik Altar.

The grand opening brought together EAI’s leadership, academics, and dignitaries for a day of events including speeches celebrating the institute’s long-standing commitment to global leadership and excellence and a Panel discussion on EAI’s future research agendas under the banner of Korea’s Road to 2050.
Ep. 12 Jean Lee: Financing Pyongyang’s Provocations: Kim Jong Un’s Cyber Strategy
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Jean H. Lee | 2022-06-17
In this interview, Jean Lee, Public Policy Fellow at the Wilson Center, discusses North Korea’s cyber-attacks and how they finance Pyongyang’s missile developments despite the international sanctions against the regime. Ms. Lee notes that Kim Jong-un, early on in his rule, has overseen the cultivation of “cyber warriors,” who have stolen more than two billion dollars in cyber theft over the last few years. As cyberattacks are difficult to trace and attribute, Pyongyang’s investment in cyber has become a successful means of circumventing sanctions. Ms. Lee underscores the importance of ROK-U.S. cooperation in accelerating momentum for a technology alliance centered on cybersecurity. She especially highlights Seoul’s role, provided that it has a depth of experience in responding to North Korea’s cyber-attacks and is at the forefront of cryptocurrency technology. Moving forward, she advises the Yoon administration to increase enforcement and regulation in cryptocurrency at the intersection between policy and technology.
[ADRN Working Paper] Malaysia’s Ongoing Tussle With Democracy
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Halmie Azrie Abdul Halim | 2022-06-07
In this ADRN Direct Democracy research group’s working paper, Halmie Azrie Abdul Halim at Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs examines the impact of the current political and constitutional crisis driven from a sudden collapse of the Pact of Hope coalition. The author argues that the situation let Malaysians question possibilities of introducing more participatory or direct forms of democracy within the country to prevent ideological conflicts between the parties. In order to support direct forms of democracy, he adds that the country needs to be a far less powerful state with a steadily influential civil society segment.

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[ADRN Working Paper] Can Online Public Participation Strengthen Direct, Deliberative, and Participatory Democracy in India?
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[ADRN Working Paper] Can Online Public Participation Strengthen Direct, Deliberative, and Participatory Democracy in India?
Kaustuv Kanti Bandyopadhyay | 2022-05-31
Introduction [1]   Most modern constitutional democracies govern themselves through the representative form of democratic governance. This representation is determined by fair, regular, and competitive elections. However, over the decades, the limitations of representative democratic governance have been well-documented (...
[ADRN Issue Briefing] Sri Lanka’s Arab Spring Moment: Can Asia’s Oldest Democracy Weather the Crisis?
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[ADRN Issue Briefing] Sri Lanka’s Arab Spring Moment: Can Asia’s Oldest Democracy Weather the Crisis?
Niranjan Sahoo | 2022-05-27
Sri Lanka, Asia’s oldest democracy, is at a critical inflection point in its history. The island nation of 22 million people is facing unprecedented economic and political crises. Sri Lanka is currently engulfed with massive anger and intensifying street protests over the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government’s bungling of t...
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[ADRN Online Seminar] Democracy Cooperation Series 14: History of Human Rights Violations in Asia
East Asia Institute | 2022-05-02
The East Asia Institute (President Yul Sohn), as a secretariat of the Asia Democracy Research Network (ADRN), hosted the fourteenth online seminar of the [Democracy Cooperation] series, titled "History of Human Rights Violations in Asia.” During this seminar, ADRN members from South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan discus...

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