Yoojin Shin, Author at Berkeley Political Review

Berkeley Political Review

Stories from Yoojin Shin

Homo Hominibus Tigris: Xi Jinping and the Rise of the Good Dictator

To the countries of the Western world, where the ancient Greek traditions of democratic governance have institutionalized over centuries, China

The North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Where to Go From Here

On September 15th, North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile over the Japanese island of Hokkaido for the second time

The Park Administration and the Fragility of South-Korean Democracy

Park Geun-Hye, the 11th President of South Korea. Democracy is fragile. In many countries, it took years—most often decades—of struggle

China’s 1%: The Rich Chinese Kids of Instagram

Coco the Alaskan malamute poses with her eight new iPhone 7s. For the past two decades, China’s growth has shot

The British Identity Crisis

Boris Johnson, the new foreign-secretary of Britain, was the driving leader of the Brexit campaign. It is yet another night

Lady Politics: What It Means to be the First Lady in the Twenty-First Century

Ted Cruz and Donald Trump recently had an epic throwdown through Twitter—and this time, their wives were involved. The first

Politicians, Capitalism, and the Dying Earth: Why the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement Became a Roadblock

“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson When the

The Woes of the Model Minority: The Dual Existence of Asian-Americans in the United States

On January 9th, 1966, the New York Times Magazine published an article by sociologist William Petersen called “Success Story, Japanese-American Style.”

“There’s An App For That”

On a typical weekday from 4 to 8 p.m., the streets of San Francisco bustle with food delivery cars, each

Gun Violence and the American Mind

“Reform the mental health care system.” Time and time again, this has been the right-wing response to mass shootings. From three

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