Peacekeeping
Scholarly Publications
Peace on a Knife's Edge: The Inside Story of Roh Moo-hyun's North Korea Policy
February 2018
Peace on a Knife’s Edge is the translation of Lee Jong-Seok's 2014 memoir of South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun's efforts to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula in the face of opposition at home...
Other Publications
Civil Wars, Intrastate Violence, and International Responses
March 2019
From October 22–23, 2018, the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative (USASI) at Stanford University, in conjunction with the Institute for China-U.S.
Assessing the Effectiveness of Alliance Responses to Regional and Global Threats
June 2018
From 31 January through 1 February 2018, Stanford University’s U.S.-Asia Security Initiative (USASI) and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF), gathered in Tokyo representatives from the government,...
News
In Seattle Talk, Former Ambassador to Afghanistan Explains Strategy to Combat Extremism in ‘Fragile States’
April 2019
Karl Eikenberry is a retired Army officer whose two tours of Afghanistan duty — and later service as ambassador to that nation — left him keenly aware of the limits of U.S.
New North Korea sanctions a plausible step yet unlikely to break long-standing deadlock
July 2017
North Korea launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on July 3, a first for the country that has increasingly advanced proliferation and testing over the last three years...
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.
East Asia's Contentious Island Disputes: A U.S. Policy Perspective
October 29, 2012
Certain East Asian territorial disputes have simmered, unresolved, since the arrangements concluding the Second World War: Japan, China, and Taiwan contest sovereignty over the Senkaku/Diaoyu(tai)...
Japan's Reflection on a Rising China: The Domestic Politics of Japan's China Policy
February 29, 2012
Japan's experience with China's rise thus far suggests an increasingly tumultuous Northeast Asia.
