Strengthening the MPIA is an important first step to restoring confidence in the WTO's dispute resolution system.

Thomas Pepinsky is the Walter F. LaFeber Professor in the Department of Government and Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University, and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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Ben Ascione is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University.

Andrei Lankov is Professor of Korean Studies at Kookmin University, Seoul, and Director of NK News. He previously taught Korean History at the Australian National University from 1996–2004 and was ...

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Ava Kalinauskas is a Research Associate at the United States Studies Centre based at the University of Sydney. Her work has been featured across outlets including The Australian Financial Review, The ...

Shoki Omori works in the Research Division of Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities, Tokyo.

Dr Thomas Wilkins is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, and currently a Japan Foundation Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies ...

After completing a BA in East Asian Studies at The University of Sheffield, Ruby Fitzsimmons spent 3 years living in Kansai. She carried out one month of ethnographic fieldwork on hosts in Osaka as ...

Viewing Japan’s host clubs as part of a cycle of mutual exploitation within the capitalist system of commodified emotion can ...