Timothy Cichanowicz (University of Kansas), “Friend-Shoring without Decoupling: How Japanese Multinational Corporations Adapt to Political Risk in China”

U.S. ET: March 28 (Thursday), 8 – 9 PM JST: March 29 (Friday), 9 – 10 AM Zoom Registration: Link Paper is available here. Author: Timothy Cichanowicz (University of Kansas), Samantha A. Vortherms (University of California, Irvine), Jiakun Jack Zhang (University of Kansas). Abstract: How are multinational firms (MNCs) and the global supply chains that […]

Erik Wang (New York University), “Too Much But Never Enough: Administrative Capacity and Backlashes to State-building in Medieval Japan”

U.S. ET: November 13 (Thursday), 8 – 9 PM JST: November 14 (Friday), 10 – 11 AM Zoom Registration: Link  Paper: Link Author(s): Erik H. Wang (New York University) and Weiwen Yin (University of Macau) Abstract: How does state-building fail? Existing scholarship emphasizes both territorial reach and administrative capacity as keys to state-building, but these […]