February 8th, 2010

Will Japan emerge from its shell? The new government finds charting a new course not so easy

Since the Democratic Party of Japan came to power in August 2009, upsetting fifty years of conservative rule, U.S.-Japan relations have been on rocky ground. It would seem that the DPJ is upending decades old policies, hewing its own path with the United States, China, and the Asia-Pacific region. As Shorenstein APARC Director for Research Daniel Sneider notes, Japan's new tack not only has caught the United States flat-footed, but also has other countries in the Asia-Pacific worried. Read more »

February 4th, 2010

Shorenstein APARC announces search for associate director for administration

The Center seeks an experienced manager to coordinate with faculty and staff on a broad range of operational and research-related activities. The associate director for administration coordinates the workloads of administrative staff members, juggling rapidly changing, and sometimes unexpected requests while ensuring all work is completed to the highest professional standards. To read the full description and apply for this position, please visit http://jobs.stanford.edu/ and search for job ID #37027. Read more »

January 27th, 2010

Scholars, business and government leaders from Japan and United States connect for a "Dialogue"

On January 21, scholars, along with government and business leaders from Japan and the United States, including U.S. Ambassador to Japan Mr. John V. Roos, came together for a transnational "Dialogue on Japan's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem." presentation available
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January 12th, 2010

Lessons from South Korea's Economc Policy during the Global Financial Crisis

South Korea is recovering from the global financial crisis and ensuing recession much more quickly than most other countries. Byongwon Bahk, Koret Fellow of Korean Studies Program at APARC spoke on South Korean economy at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco. Read more »

January 8th, 2010

Chaisung Lim explains South Korea's system of innovation

Just added to the SPRIE audio archives--Dr. Chaisung Lim speaks on the historical characteristics of South Korea's national system of innovation and its radical changes since the 1997 economic crisis.

• » Knowledge Generation Within Korea's Bipolarized National System of Innovation
  

January 5th, 2010

Cost of Korean unification

Peter Beck, Pantech Fellow of Korean Studies Program, estimates that Korean unification would cost at least $2 trillion over 30 years.

• » Wall Street Journal (for complete article)

January 4th, 2010

APARC's "Divided Memories and Reconciliation" featured in the Straits Times Singapore Newspaper

Tracy Quek from the U.S. Bureau at The Straits Times Singapore Newspaper discusses a three-year project at APARC to examine how the main players in North-East Asia - China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan - along with the United States, form their views of the past, or what the scholars call "historical memories." Read more »

December 29th, 2009

NGO "Pioneers for Health" promoting tobacco control in Yunnan, PRC

Two news articles report on the activities of "Pioneers for Health," a health policy non-governmental organization founded in China a year ago with help from AHPP faculty affiliate Matthew Kohrman. Read more »

December 15th, 2009

Working paper series on health and demographic change in the Asia-Pacific

December 2009 marks the first anniversary of the launch of the Asia Health Policy Program's working paper series on health and demographic change in the Asia-Pacific. Read more »

December 8th, 2009

Japan PM out of the frying pan, now into the fire

Daniel Sneider of Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center comments on Prime Minister Hatoyama’s challenges saying "The real concern is that the crisis over the Futenma airbase issue in Okinowa starts having a corrosive impact on a range of issues." The world's two biggest economies need to coordinate on financial and economic policies. They need to be able to sit down and talk." Read more »

November 20th, 2009

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

Daniel Sneider: 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.

• » Energy, Environment, and Economic Growth in Asia
  

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 »

Shorenstein APARC scholars publish five wide-ranging new books

In five new books -- three of which were produced as part of Shorenstein APARC's in-house publishing program -- Center academics tackle an array of issues related to Asia's past, present, and future, from both policy and historical perspectives. 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 12th, 2009

Fresh Dynamics in US-Burmese Relations?

Several developments have come together to trigger renewed media interest in the "Myanmar problem." These developments include: (a) changes in US policy toward the military junta that rules Burma/Myanmar; (b) rumors of possible shifts in the stances taken by the junta and its iconic opponent Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; (c) President Obama's scheduled November 2009 summit with all ten ASEAN leaders including Myanmar's own Senior General Than Shwe; and (d) the prospect of an "election" in Myanmar in 2010. 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.

• » Reuters News

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.
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