On February 11, 2024, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) held the second Milk Tea Alliance Japan strategy meeting. The meeting was conducted in both Japanese and English with simultaneous interpretation, and it brought together activists, journalists, artists from Japan, Hong Kong, Myanmar, and Thailand, all currently residing in Japan. Participants covered recent activity […]

GGR will hold the 26th GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar which will be held as below. Anybody who pre-register is welcome to join the event:   Title The Effects of Warring and Civil Oligarchs on Colombia’s Subnational Democracy Speaker Dr. Jan Boesten (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin; Associate Member, University of Oxford) Date March […]

On January 18, 2024, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) hosted a workshop/webinar, “Hong Kong as a Political Subject in the US, UK, and Japan.” We invited three panelists: Kennedy Wong (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Southern California), Venita Yeung (Policy Officer at Stand with Hong Kong, UK / Secretariat of the All-Party […]

How Disinformation Erodes the World’s Largest Democracy Niranjan Sahoo （Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi） February 26, 2024 Introduction Recently, a prominent social media analyst called India the disinformation capital of the world. This is corroborated by many recent surveys and reports. According to a recent study, the country saw a record 214 percent […]