Diplomacy
Scholarly Publications
Catch Up: Why Poor Countries Are Becoming Richer, Democratic, Increasingly Peaceable, and Sometimes More Dangerous
August 1999
Why Poor Countries Are Becoming Richer, Democratic, Increasingly Peaceable, and Sometimes More Dangerous It is easy to be confused about the world’s prospect.
China and the U.S.-Japan Alliance at a Time of Strategic Change and Shifts in the Balance of Power
October 1997
Published as part of the "America's Alliances with Japan and Korea in a Changing Northeast Asia" Research Project.
Prospects for Peace in South Asia
March 2005
Prospects for Peace in South Asia, the inaugural title in a new series of "Studies of the Asia-Pacific Research Center" published by Stanford University Press, addresses the largely hostile, often...
Other Publications
Tailored Engagement: Toward an Effective and Sustainable Inter-Korean Relations Policy
September 2014
"Tailored Engagement" is a result of research and an earlier report by faculty members and researchers at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University.
Korean Unification: An American View
December 2014
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) remains a potentially destabilizing element of the Korean Peninsula, making it difficult to construct a regional architecture that could help...
Thirteenth Korea-U.S. West Coast Strategic Forum
January 2015
The thirteenth session of the Korea-U.S.
News
Sneider: Cautionary lessons for U.S.-Korea relationship
March 2008
Daniel Sneider, associate director for research at Shorenstein APARC, gives a few cautionary lessons on U.S.-Korea relations.
New Beginnings group to release report on U.S.-South Korea alliance
April 2008
New Beginnings, a non-partisan study group of distinguished former American senior officials and experts formed by the Walter H.
- Korea Society: New Beginnings: Post-Election Prospects for U.S.-ROK Relations
- Korea Times: Scholars See Success, Caution in Summit
- Chosun Ilbo: U.S. Group Calls for Fresh Look at Key Korean Concerns
- New York Times: South Korea Lifts U.S. Beef Ban
- Washington Post, South Korean Leader Plans New Outreach to the North
APARC's Don Emmerson urges Muslim understanding in America
July 2005
In the post-9/11 world there is an urgent need for Americans to understand the Muslim world, and vice versa.
Events
Japanese Humor: An Oxymoron
January 24, 2000
A pioneering Japanese-English simultaneous interpreter will entertain and enlighten you with the tales of some delightful events where humor has successfully transcended cultural barriers, or some...
The Chinese Revolution and U.S.-China Relations: International Perspectives on 50 Years of the People's Republic of China
March 7, 2000
Zi Zhongyun is one of China's leading scholars on international relations. She is the author of The Origin and Evolution of U.S.
Projects
Does Perception Matter in International Relations?: Trends in US and Korean Media Coverage of the Alliance, 1992-2004
For much of the U.S.-ROK alliance's fifty-year history, it was considered one of the most successful political-military relationships forged out of the Cold War era.
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
Tokyo in a Season of Turmoil
As the winter turns to spring and the cherry trees blossom, Japan confronts challenges in every domain: economics and business, security and defense, diplomacy and politics. The troubled global...
English
Multimedia
The United States and China: A President's Perspective
May 2002
As 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter's significant foreign-policy accomplishments included the Panama Canal treaties; the strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT II) signed with Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev; the Camp David...
One Year After Japan’s 3/11 Disaster: Reforming Japan’s Energy Sector, Governance, and Economy
February 2012
In the year following Japan’s 3/11 triple disaster of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear incident, fundamental issues in Japan’s political economy are being debated.
One Year After Japan’s 3/11 Disaster: Reforming Japan’s Energy Sector, Governance, and Economy
February 2012
In the year following Japan’s 3/11 triple disaster of the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear incident, fundamental issues in Japan’s political economy are being debated.
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