November 20th, 2009

Is Japan's newly elected DPJ government anti-American or simply pro-Asian? Daniel Sneider comments in Foreign Policy

Since the Democratic Party of Japan won in the country's August national election, Japan watchers have worried that the new government might try to upset the status quo and ease away from the United States. The DPJ is implementing a new paradigm -- but not the one people think. Read more »

Final report now available for inaugural Stanford-Kyoto Dialogue, focused on energy and the environment

The inaugural Stanford-Kyoto Dialogue, held in Kyoto in Setember 2009, gathered established and rising experts from Stanford University across Asia to consider topics related to "Energy, Environment, and Economic Growth in Asia." Key sessions of the two-day meeting covered the geopolitics of energy in Asia, energy efficiency, clean technology, and post-Kyoto greenhouse gas emissions. The final report is now available. Read more »

SEAF Director Donald K. Emmerson debates "Islamism" in new book

Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam was published by Stanford University Press in November 2009. But the story behind the book dates back five years to November 2004. It was then that Donald K. Emmerson and Daniel Varisco -- who have each contributed a lead essay to this volume -- agreed to disagree. Read more »

November 19th, 2009

North Korea Unlikely to Give Up Nuclear Weapons

David Straub, associate director of Korean Studies Program, told a Korea Foundation-organized seminar in Seoul that he sees "no indication that North Korea, in the foreseeable future, is prepared to give up its nuclear weapons programs on terms that the US will find politically acceptable." While supportive of Ambassador Bosworth's upcoming visit to Pyongyang, Straub, a former State Department Korean affairs director, noted that North Korea's recent words and deeds had left most American observers increasingly skeptical about North Korean intentions.

• » AFP news (for complete article)

November 18th, 2009

The Social Determinants of Health: Application to Developed and Developing Asia

Global health disparities were the topic of a special event November 11th co-sponsored by the Asia Health Policy Program of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Center for Health Policy / Primary Care and Outcomes Research. Read more »

November 10th, 2009

SEAF Director Named to Task Force on Burma/Myanmar

The Asia Society has organized a Task Force on U.S. Policy toward Burma/Myanmar, co-chaired by retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark and Holsman International Chair (and former USAID Administrator) Henrietta H. Fore. The panel comprises a dozen or so individuals from various occupations and backgrounds, including SEAF’s director, Don Emmerson. Assisting the Task Force is an also diverse Advisory Group of some thirty experts in Southeast Asian and other countries. The Asia Society expects to release the Task Force’s final report early in 2010. Read more »

November 5th, 2009

Islamism: What is to be said and done?

More than any of his predecessors, President Obama has reached out to "the Muslim world." But what of the terms and the timing of that demarche? If, as expected, he visits Indonesia next year, he will try to build on his oratorical successes in Istanbul and Cairo by addressing Muslims in the country that has more of them than any other. Read more »

October 30th, 2009

ANALYSIS-U.S.-Japan alliance faces challenge of China's rise

Tokyo and Washington are struggling to keep a feud over a U.S. military base from spoiling President Barack Obama's visit next month, but assuaging mutual anxiety as both allies adapt to China's growing clout will be an even harder task. "There is more raison d'etre to the alliance than ever before, but they have to reframe it and take it out of the Cold War context," said Daniel Sneider at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Read more »

October 27th, 2009

Where Did They Go and What Have They Been Up To? John Ciorciari

John D. Ciorciari was a Shorenstein Fellow at APARC in 2007-08 and an affiliate of APARC and SEAF in 2008-09 while a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Upon leaving Stanford he took up a position as an assistant professor in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Read more »

SEAF Scholars Traveling to Philadelphia despite Old Joke

Past, present, and future Southeast Asianists linked to SEAF have ignored the hoary joke about the contest whose first prize is one week in Philadelphia and whose second prize is two weeks in that city. Several of them are on the program of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) to be held, yes, in Philadelphia on 25-28 March 2010. Read more »

October 26th, 2009

Morada and Jones on Hard Choices

Edited by SEAF Director Don Emmerson and co-published in 2008-09 by APARC at Stanford and ISEAS in Singapore, Hard Choices: Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia continues to attract attention. Excerpted below are two differing but equally thoughtful recent reviews:
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October 20th, 2009

Professor Phillip Lipscy addresses the CSIS Japan Chair Forum about global reform after the financial crisis

In July 2009, Shorenstein APARC Professor Phillip Lipscy spoke to CSIS in Washington, DC about the dynamics of Asian cooperation as the region rebuilds after the financial crisis. Read more »

Comparing health systems through the lens of pharmaceutical policy: A new book

A newly published book examines how pharmaceuticals and their regulation play an important and often contentious role in the health systems of the Asia-Pacific, focusing on China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, and India. Read more »

October 16th, 2009

Martin Kenney provides an "Historical Perspective" on the state of venture capital

Recently Dr. Martin Kenney (Professor, UC Davis) delivered a fascinating presentation for a SPRIE audience, tracing venture capital from its pre-WWII angel investor beginnings all the way up to the present, which he sees as the most difficult circumstances the industry has ever faced.

• » A Historical Perspective on the Development of the VC Industry in Silicon Valley--Are We in a New Era?
  

October 13th, 2009

The new Asianism

Daniel Sneider: Since the Democratic Party of Japan won in the country's August national election, Japan watchers have worried the new government might try to upset the status quo and ease away from the United States. The DPJ is implementing a new paradigm -- but not the one people think. Read more »

September 28th, 2009

Importance of U.S.-South Korea relations in dealing with North Korea

Gi-Wook Shin, director of APARC, emphasized the importance of U.S.-South Korea relations in dealing with North Korea including nuclear issues at a seminar hosted by San Francisco Chapter of National Unification Advisory Council of Korea.

• » Korea Times, San Francisco (complete article in Korean)

September 25th, 2009

Hennessy, Brown speak on "Changing Silicon Valley" at SPRIE Leaders Forum

Silicon Valley thought leaders John Hennessy, John Seely Brown and others spoke at SPRIE's Leaders Forum on Thursday, September 24, reflecting on the changing factors affecting the Valley's economy and how best to respond. "In a rapidly changing world where innovation and agility reign supreme," noted Brown, there is a "big shift" underway from an economy that is predictable and heirarchical--one that is based on scalable efficiency--to one that is dynamic and focused on knowedge flows and creation: an economy that depends on scalable peer learning. Brown's presentation can be downloaded and other materials from the forum will be linked as they become available.

• » Silicon Valley Leaders Forum: Changing Silicon Valley
  

September 24th, 2009

From Terror To Trade, White House Moves To Engage SE Asia

Southeast Asia is something of a potpourri for foreign policymakers. The region includes the world's largest Muslim-majority nation in Indonesia, booming bilateral trade, terrorism, one of the world's most repressive regimes in Myanmar, and growing Chinese influence.

• » From Terror To Trade, White House Moves To Engage SE Asia

September 23rd, 2009

Obama keeping steady course on North Korea

The Obama administration's willingness to talk bilaterally with North Korea does not signify any weakening of U.S. support for the Six Party Talks and North Korean denuclearization, stresses David Straub, associate director of the Korean Studies Program at APARC, in an interview with major South Korean daily Dong-A Ilbo.

• » Dong-A Ilbo (complete article in Korean)

September 22nd, 2009

Stanford Kyoto Trans-Asian Dialogue on energy, environment, and economic growth in Asia

The inaugural gathering of Stanford Kyoto Trans-Asian Dialogue on Energy, Environment, and Economic Growth in Asia led by Gi-Wook Shin, director of APARC, brought together distinguished experts and leaders in the fields of energy and environment.

• » Yonhap News (complete article in Korean)

September 21st, 2009

How do the media shape U.S. policy on the Cold War's last frontier?

Beginning with a detailed analysis of American newspaper coverage of Korean peninsula between 1992 and 2003, the newly published book, "First Drafts of Korea: The U.S. Media and Perceptions of the Last Cold War Frontier," features essays by Western journalists and senior U.S. officials with firsthand experience on the peninsula over the past two decades. The book's distinguished contributors offer unique insights into American media coverage of the peninsula and its impact on policymaking in Washington. Donald Macintyre, former Pantech Fellow, Daniel Sneider, associate director of research, and Gi-Wook Shin, director of APARC, edited the volume.

• » Yonhap News (complete article in Korean)

September 15th, 2009

SPRIE kicks off fall quarter with "Silicon Valley Leaders Forum"

On Thursday, September 24, the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) is pleased to present the "Silicon Valley Leadership Forum: Changing Silicon Valley," a forum featuring addresses by Dr. John Hennessy, President, Stanford University; Mr. James C. Morgan, Chairman emeritus, Applied Materials; and Dr. John Seely Brown, Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation, as well as a special panel focus on how venture capital is changing in the Valley.

• » Silicon Valley Leaders Forum: Changing Silicon Valley
  

September 10th, 2009

Shorenstein APARC launches the annual Stanford-Kyoto Dialogue, focusing on energy and the environment

The Dialogue gathers established and rising leaders in various sectors -- industry, media, academia, politics -- for annual discussion of critical issues of shared concern. Experts from Stanford University and specialists from around the region will launch the Dialogue sessions in focused topics within the annual theme. The 2009 Dialogue centers on the question of "Energy, Environment, and Economic Growth in Asia," with sessions on the geopolitics of energy in Asia, energy efficiency, clean technology, and post-Kyoto greenhouse gas emissions. Read more »

Andrew Walder publishes new research on the Beijing Red Guard Movement

Due out in October 2009 from Harvard University Press, Andrew Walder's new book, Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement, is already garnering rave reviews.

• » Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement

September 9th, 2009

Shorenstein APARC announces new fellowships and faculty searches for the 2010-2011 academic year

Shorenstein APARC is now accepting applications for the Northeast Asian History Fellowship, the Shorenstein Fellowships, and the Shorenstein APARC/Takahashi Predoctoral Fellowship. The center also welcomes applications for faculty appointments in Japanese and Korean Studies.

• » Northeast Asian History Fellowship
• » Shorenstein Fellowships
• » Shorenstein APARC/Takahashi Predoctoral Fellowship
• » Faculty Appointment in Japanese Studies
• » Junior Faculty Appointment in Korean Studies