Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall, Room E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

dsneider@stanford.edu
(650) 724-5667 (voice)
(650) 723-6530 (fax)

Expertise
contemporary Korea; contemporary Japan; security in Asia; nationalism and regionalism in East Asia; US foreign policy in Asia; North Korea nuclear issues

Daniel Sneider is the associate director for research at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. He currently directs the center's project on Nationalism and Regionalism and the Divided Memories and Reconciliation project, a three-year comparative study of the formation of historical memory in East Asia. His own research is focused on current U.S. foreign and national security policy in Asia, including work on a diplomatic history of the building of the United States Cold War alliances in Northeast Asia.

Sneider was a 2005-06 Pantech Fellow at the Center, and the former foreign affairs columnist of the San Jose Mercury News. His twice-weekly column on foreign affairs, looking at international issues and national security from a West Coast perspective, was syndicated nationally on the Knight Ridder Tribune wire service, reaching about 400 newspapers in North America. He has appeared as a foreign affairs commentator on the Lehrer News Hour and on National Public Radio.

Previously, Sneider served as national/foreign editor of the San Jose Mercury News, responsible for coverage of national and international news until the spring of 2003. He joined the Mercury News in 1997 as politics and government editor, directing the coverage of state and local government and politics, including the 1998 election campaign. He came to the Mercury News from the Christian Science Monitor, most recently as the San Francisco bureau chief covering the Western United States and California, including the 1996 Presidential election campaign.

Sneider has had a long career as a foreign correspondent. From 1990-94, he was the Moscow Bureau Chief of the Christian Science Monitor, covering the end of Soviet Communism and the collapse of the Soviet Union. From 1985-90, he was Tokyo Correspondent for the Monitor, covering Japan and Korea.

Sneider has also worked as correspondent in India, covering South and Southeast Asia, traveling extensively in both regions. He served as a correspondent at the United Nations on two occasions. He has extensive experience covering defense and national security affairs, including as a contributor and correspondent for Defense News, the national defense weekly, and before that Defense Week, beginning in 1985.

Sneider's writings have appeared in many publications, including the New Republic, National Review, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Time, the International Herald Tribune, the Financial Times, the Dallas Morning News, and the Sacramento Bee.

Following his work in Moscow, Sneider was a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control (now CISAC), funded by a grant from the U.S. Institute for Peace, studying ethnic conflict in the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union. His work on this subject was published by CISAC and the Christian Science Monitor.

Sneider is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the West Coast affiliate of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a member of the Institute of Current World Affairs. Sneider holds an MA in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (1985) and a BA in East Asian History from Columbia (1973). He is the son of a career foreign service officer, the late Ambassador Richard L. Sneider, and spent much of his childhood in Asia. He is married and has three children.