Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs Elizabeth Freund Larus, who is 2026 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Taiwan Fellow, discussed U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific with students and faculty virtually at Poland’s Marie Curie Skłodowska University.Larus discussed the role of regional allies as force aggregators and offered an overview of U.S. policy toward Taiwan. […]
Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs Elizabeth Freund Larus was quoted by Diario De Cuba in an article titled “Corruption, attempted coup, or Taiwan: what is known about the military purge in China?” In the article, Larus, who is a senior associate research fellow at the Pacific Forum, tells the newspaper that “military […]
Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs Elizabeth Freund Larus was quoted by the BBC News in an article titled “Venezuela today and Taiwan tomorrow? How Trump’s raid on Maduro sparked heated debate on both sides of the strait.” Larus, who is also a senior fellow at the U.S. think tank Pacific Forum, disagreed […]
Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs Elizabeth Freund Larus, who is also adjunct senior fellow at the Pacific Forum, offered the bi-lingual presentation “Public Speaking in a Foreign Language – Lessons from Learning to Speak Mandarin【外語公開演講：從學習中文得到的啟發】at the 2025 Polyglot Conference in Taipei, November 10-12, 2025. Larus engaged with conference participants in discussing challenges […]
Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Relations and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Pacific Forum Elizabeth Freund Larus offered comments to BBC Chinese on the use of U.S. conservative media by Taiwan’s leaders. In the article, titled “Taiwan’s Counterattack on U.S. Right-Wing Media: Can Lai Ching-te and Hsiao Bi-khim’s New Diplomatic Strategy Succeed?,” Larus indicated […]