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

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(L-R) Michael Armacost, Thomas Hubbard, Evans Revere, Gi-Wook Shin, David Straub at the Korea Society in New York on April 15, 2008

Researchers

Charles L. Pritchard
Investigator
President
The Korea Economic Institute
oberdorfer
Don Oberdorfer
Investigator
Chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute
Johns Hopkins University
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Victor Cha
Investigator
Director of Asian Stdies
Georgetown University
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Robert Carlin
Investigator
Pantech Fellow
APARC, Stanford University
Bosworth
Stephen W. Bosworth
Investigator
Senior Fellow
Harvard University
Michael H. Armacost
Investigator
Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow
Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University
hubbard
Thomas C. Hubbard
Investigator
President
McLarty Associates
revere
Evans J.R. Revere
Principal Investigator
President
The Korea Society
Gi-Wook Shin
Principal Investigator
Director of Shorenstein APARC and Stanford KSP
Stanford University
Daniel C. Sneider
Investigator
Associate Director of Research of Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
David Straub
Investigator
Associate Director
Korean Studies Program, Stanford University

The New York-based Korea Society and Stanford University's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center launched the nonpartisan "New Beginnings" policy study group on January 10, 2008, to offer recommendations on how U.S. policymakers could expand and strengthen the alliance between the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK, or South Korea). Composed of former senior U.S. government officials, scholars, and other American experts on U.S.-Korean relations, the New Beginnings project team premised its efforts on the belief that the inauguration of a new South Korean president in February 2008 and a new American president in January 2009 would provide a special opportunity for the two countries to increase mutual understanding and transform the alliance into a global partnership. In a coincidence occurring only once every twenty years, the two new presidents' terms of office would overlap for a full four years. Moreover, the alliance needed renewal and revitalization after a decade of strain and tension that arose from divergent worldviews of progressive governments in Seoul and a conservative administration in Washington.

Since its establishment, the New Beginnings policy study group has issued a report to the U.S. administration each year. New Beginnings' reports and recommendations reflect insights gained from group conferences as well as individual members' continuing engagement with U.S.-Korean affairs.

October 30, 2012

Thomas C. Hubbard, former American ambassador to the Republic of Korea and a member of the Shorenstein APARC-Korea Society led New Beginnings initiative to strengthen U.S.-South Korean ties, offers advice for getting the bilateral relationship off to a good start after the upcoming presidential elections in the United States and South Korea. Click here for his comments.

Publications

Michael H. Armacost
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Thomas C. Hubbard
;
Evans J. R. Revere
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Gi-Wook Shin
;
Charles ''Jack'' L. Pritchard
;
Don Oberdorfer
;
David Straub
;
Daniel C. Sneider
;
Robert Carlin
;
Victor Cha
Michael H. Armacost
;
Robert Carlin
;
Victor Cha
;
Thomas C. Hubbard
;
Don Oberdorfer
;
Charles L. "Jack" Pritchard
;
Evans J. R. Revere
;
Gi-Wook Shin
;
Daniel C. Sneider
;
David Straub
Michael H. Armacost
;
Robert Carlin
;
Victor Cha
;
Thomas C. Hubbard
;
Don Oberdorfer
;
Charles L. "Jack" Pritchard
;
Evans J. R. Revere
;
Gi-Wook Shin
;
Daniel C. Sneider
;
David Straub
Michael H. Armacost
;
Stephen W. Bosworth
;
Robert Carlin
;
Victor Cha
;
Thomas C. Hubbard
;
Don Oberdorfer
;
Charles L. “Jack” Pritchard
;
Evans J. R. Revere
;
Gi-Wook Shin
;
Daniel Sneider
;
David Straub

Multimedia

Audio
Michael H. Armacost
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Evans Revere
;
Gi-Wook Shin
;
Daniel C. Sneider
;
David Straub
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Bruce Pickering

Events

Conferences
Thursday, May 13, 2010
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
(Pacific)
Workshops
Friday, December 4, 2009
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM
(Pacific)
Conferences
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
(Pacific)
Conferences
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
(Pacific)
Conferences
Monday, April 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
(Pacific)
Conferences
Friday, February 1, 2008
12:00 AM - 9:00 AM
(Pacific)