Conflict
Scholarly Publications
Office of the Director of National Intelligence: From Pariah and Piñata to Managing Partner
June 2017
This is a chapter in the second edition of The National Security Enterprise, a book edited by Roger Z.
Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War
July 2016
No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past. History is not simply about recording past events—it is often contested, negotiated, and reshaped over time.
Other Publications
News
Understanding the Stakes in Taiwan
November 2022
Larry Diamond and Oriana Skylar Mastro join Michael McFaul on the World Class podcast to discuss China’s ambitions against Taiwan, and how the U.S. and its allies can deter Beijing.
How ASEAN Can Still Help on Myanmar
September 2022
The Southeast Asian bloc must make it clear that it will not accept the military junta’s sham election.
Scot Marciel Testifies Before the International Parliamentary Inquiry into the Global Response to the Crisis in Myanmar
August 2022
Even those countries and international organizations that have not supported the military junta in Myanmar have relied on flawed analysis and conventional diplomatic tools and approaches that do not...
Old Events
Should War be Left to the Generals? Civil-Military Relations in India
February 3, 2022
Time: 7:30am-8:45am California, USA 15 February 2022 3:30pm-4:45pm London, UK 15 February 2022 11:30pm-12:45am Singapore, 15-16 February 2022 How does India’s civil-military relationship affect...
U.S.-China Relations in the Biden Era
September 23, 2020
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Military Competition with China: Harder to Win Than During the Cold War?
September 23, 2020
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Projects
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
Divided Memories and Reconciliation
There are two obstacles to understanding how historical memory about the wartime period has been formed in Northeast Asia.
English
Multimedia
Oriana Skylar Mastro Discusses China's Naval Capacity on the BBC World Service
September 2021
Center Fellow Oriana Skylar Mastro joined BBC World Service's The Real Story host Ritula Shah and a panel of experts to discuss China's naval might and its military modernization program (the interview with Mastro starts at 24:00) China has...
The North Korea Crisis
June 2017
Video and transcript from the joint CISAC/Shorenstein APARC panel discussion, "The North Korea Crisis," on May 30, 2017, with James Person, director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation at the Center for Korean History and Public Policy; Gi-Wook...
North Korean Nuke, THAAD, and South Korean Debates
March 2017
Video and transcript from Shorenstein APARC's Korea Program seminar on March 3, 2017, titled "North Korean Nuke, THAAD, and South Korean Debates," with Chung-in Moon, the Krause Distinguished Fellow at U.C.
People
Jacques Bertrand Visiting Scholar at APARC, 2022-23, Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia, 2022-23 
