On 4 June 2025, Duke Kunshan University Associate Professor Andrew Cheon published the article “Greening State Capitalism in an Era of Climate Change and Great Power Competition” in The National Interest. Governments and their national (i.e., state-owned) oil companies (NOCs), which claim up to an estimated 90% of the world’s oil and natural

Populism is on the rise in the “old continent” and beyond, a phenomenon with implications that require a thorough examination. In October 2024, Duke Kunshan University Professor Paula Ganga published the article titled “Bringing the state back in: Populism and economic nationalism in Europe.” Extremely relevant in today’s political environment,

Five years have passed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The momentous event challenged governments’ crisis response capabilities and offered insight into the different ways states use their capacities to manage such challenges. In response to the lack of research on this subject, Duke Kunshan University Professor Paula Ganga

In October 2024, Professor Rasoul Namazi of Duke Kunshan University and Professor Svetozar Y. Minkov of Roosevelt University published a major work, Leo Strauss on Religion: Writings and Interpretations, with State University of New York Press (SUNY). This volume presents an edited collection of newly discovered writings by Leo Strauss,

On the 27th of November, 2024, Duke Kunshan University students got a glimpse of the research field of anthropology and what a vegan lifestyle entails through an event titled “Discover the Secret of Well-Being”. The event forms a segment of “The Voices from the Research Field” series, organized and presented