Research at Shorenstein APARC

The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center conducts multidisciplinary research projects in which Stanford faculty members collaborate with American and Asian colleagues. The Center's research covers a broad range of topics centered on Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia.

Shorenstein APARC Programs & Research Areas

Comparative Health Policy Program
The comparative health policy program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center promotes a comparative understanding of health and health policy in the Asia-Pacific region through research, collaboration with scholars throughout the region, and conferences and publications on comparative health policy top ...

Korean Studies Program (KSP)
The Korean Studies Program offers courses on Korea, hosts biweekly Korean luncheon seminars, sponsors workshops and conferences, conducts research projects, and has sponsored many Korean scholars, bureaucrats, and business people as visiting scholars.

» Does Perception Matter in International Relations?: Trends in US and Korean Media Coverage of the Alliance, 1992-2004

» National and Regionalism in Northeast Asia

» New Beginnings: Post-Election Prospects for U.S.-ROK Relations

» Reconciliation and Cooperation in East Asia

» Stanford Korea Democracy Project

South Asia Initiative
This multi-faceted project undertakes an agenda of policy research in information technology, financial sector, and energy reform.

» India Risk Capital Project

Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF)
The Southeast Asia Forum seeks to understand and explore the histories, cultures, political economies, and international relations of the ten countries and half-billion people of the Southeast Asian region.

» Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on Southeast Asia

Stanford China Program
The Stanford China Program (SCP) was formally established in January 2007. An integral component of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, SCP will facilitate multidisciplinary, social science-oriented research on contemporary china, with a dual emphasis on basic and policy-relevant research.

Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE)
SPRIE's mission is to contribute to the understanding and practice of innovation and entrepreneurship by examining the development conditions of Silicon Valley and other key global regions; and the flows of ideas and technology, capital, and people among them.

» China's Quest for Independent Innovation

» Leadership in China's High Tech Companies

Research Projects

» Causes of Japan's Economic Stagnation

» Corporate Restructuring and Governance in China

» Divided Memories and Reconciliation

» Economics and Political Decision-Making in China's Villages

» Information and Communication Technology in Rural India

» Introducing Power Pricing Reforms in India

» Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

» Rural Education Action Project (REAP)

» Social Stratification in China during an Age of Transition

» Taiwan Democracy