Institutions and Organizations
Scholarly Publications
ASEAN's Futures
July 2017
The future of ASEAN is necessarily unknown. Its futures, however, can be guessed with less risk of being wrong.
South Korea in 2016: Political Leadership in Crisis
March 2017
South Korean President Park Geun-hye faced a leadership crisis after revelations that she relied on a confidant with no official position for key decision-making in state affairs.
ASEAN between China and America: Is It Time to Try Horsing the Cow?
February 2017
Admirers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are impressed with the fact that it continues to exist and that an outright war has never broken out between its members.
Other Publications
Surviving the Trump-Moon Summit
July 2017
In the days leading up to the Washington summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump, the tension in Seoul was hard to escape.
President Trump's Asia Inbox
February 2017
Scholars at Stanford's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies assess the strategic situation in East Asia to be unsettled, unstable, and...
Donald Trump's Trade Policy: Back to The Future
January 2017
If you want to understand the trade and industrial policy that President Donald Trump is now going to pursue, simply jump into a DeLorean time machine with Marty McFly and go back to 1985.
News
Mortality declines in rural China yet no clear link to universal health insurance
September 2017
Rural areas of China have made remarkable progress in reducing adult mortality within the past 15 years yet broadened health insurance was not a casual factor in that decline, according to a new...
High expectations for Moon amid mounting challenges
May 2017
As expected, Moon Jae-in has been elected as South Korea’s 19th president.
Events
Sentiment, Reason, and Law: Policing in the Republic of China on Taiwan
April 30, 2018
The Republic of China on Taiwan spent nearly four decades as a single-party state under dictatorial rule (1949-1987) before transitioning to liberal democracy.
The AIIB After Two Years
March 22, 2018
For directions to the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center, please click here.The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) commenced operations on January 16, 2016.
Innovation and Knowledge Industrialization in Catch-up/Post Catch-up Korea: The Current Situation and the Challenges for the Future
January 10, 2018
Keun Lee, winner of the 2014 Schumpeter Prize and a professor of economics at Seoul National University, will explore the Schumpeterian hypothesis that the effectiveness of the national innovation...
Projects
An Expanding Toolkit: The Evolution of Governance in China
China has undergone historic economic, social and cultural transformations since its Opening and Reform.
English
Political Movements in an Authoritarian Hierarchy
This project investigates the sources of stability and conflict in authoritarian regimes, especially regimes that have a unitary national government, apply threats and repression to their own...
English
Reckoning with the Past: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Asia
This colloquia will bring several scholars to Stanford to discuss the "history problem" in a series of lectures analyzing the ways in which past conflict has or has not been addressed and resolved...
English
Multimedia
Wind of Change? South Korea under the New Administration
May 2017
Video and transcript from the Shorenstein APARC Korea Program colloquium, "Wind of Change?
Eight Threats to Freedom of Expression in India
April 2017
Audio and transcript from the Shorenstein APARC colloquium, "Eight Threats to Freedom of Expression in India," on April 5, 2017, with Ramachandra Guha.India prides itself on being the "world's largest democracy." In some respects it is certifiably...
The South China Sea: What is to be Done?
April 2017
Audio and transcript from the Shorenstein APARC China Program seminar, "The South China Sea: What is to be Done?", on March 8, 2017, with Donald K.
People
Karl Eikenberry Professor of the Practice Fellow, S-APARC, Core faculty, CISAC, Affiliate, CDDRL, Affiliate, TEC 
