I’ve written a short piece in The Conversation on the UK’s aims of joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Category: Policy
Respectability Politics and Asian America
I originally submitted this on 7th April to The Atlantic, and got sick of waiting for their promised response. I pitched to a couple of other outlets, and email conversations dwindled to nothing. So here it is, three weeks later. The spread of COVID-19 has reignited anti-Asian bigotry in the United States, particularly following…
Nudge nudge
The UK government’s initial response to COVID-19 of reliance solely on a combination of nudge theory and assumed herd immunity, combined with a more recent criticism of some of the people and work underlying the policy,(1) got me thinking about the different responses to nudge theory and behavioral economics I’ve encountered. The first memorable introduction…
Two new publications
I’ve got two short peer-reviewed pieces out today, neither of which really constitutes research, but are more commentary on a couple of issues related to research. The first is a blogpost as part of Nature Human Behaviour’s ‘Is it publish or perish?’ series. My contribution focuses on political science/international relations and the UK academic job…
Euronews NBC Interview
A bit after the fact, but I was interviewed for a piece by Euronews NBC on Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK, which, fortunately, turned out to yield fewer fireworks than anticipated.
Italy-China agreements in the Belt and Road Initiative
Some comments on Italy’s agreements with China as a part of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Wry Ronin.