http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from Shorenstein APARCen-usPublic domainhttp://aparc.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/60http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2167Since 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.]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2167?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2168The 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.]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2168?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2169Islamism: 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.]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2169?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2170In 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.]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2170?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2165%people1%, 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.]]>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2165?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2163Global 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.]]>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2163?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2151The 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.]]>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2151?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2144More 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.]]>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2144?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2139Tokyo 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.]]>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2139?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2131John 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.]]>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2131?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2132Past, 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.]]>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2132?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2128Edited 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:]]>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2128?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2124A 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.]]>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2124?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2123In July 2009, Shorenstein APARC Professor %people1% spoke to CSIS in Washington, DC about the dynamics of Asian cooperation as the region rebuilds after the financial crisis.]]>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2123?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2115Recently 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.]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/2115?