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The Human Rights Crisis in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
November 2019
Shall I tell you why we have brought you here? To cure you! To make you sane! Will you understand, Winston, that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands uncured?
Between Hope and Caution: One American’s View of Indonesia’s Election
April 2019
On April 17, Indonesia, the world’s fourth largest country and the third largest democracy after India and America, goes to the polls.
Shorenstein Journalism Award panel explores China’s religious landscape
May 2017
China is encountering a religious resurgence.
Ian Johnson, longtime foreign correspondent, to receive Shorenstein Journalism Award
March 2017
Ian Johnson, a veteran journalist with a focus on Chinese society, religion and history, is the 2016 recipient of the Shorenstein Journalism Award.
Indonesian campaign poster symbolism and political identity
February 2012
Riding around on the back of a motorcycle in 2009, Jeremy Menchik snapped photos of hundreds of Indonesian campaign posters.
New fellows to study China's automotive industry and religious tolerance in Indonesia
March 2011
In September, Crystal Chang and Jeremy M. Menchik will join the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center as its Shorenstein Fellows for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Donald K. Emmerson contemplates recent events in Egypt and Tunisia
February 2011
In light of the recent ousting of the presidents of Egypt and Tunisia, Donald K.
News of SEAF Scholars in 2009-2010
June 2010
The Southeast Asia Forum experienced an embarrassment of riches in 2009-2010.
March 2010 Dispatch - The Politics of Pornography: Islamic Governance in Democratic Indonesia
March 2010
Despite the recent Islamic revival that has dramatically increased public expressions of piety, Islamic political parties have failed to gain any significant electoral traction in Indonesia.
SEAF Director Donald K. Emmerson debates "Islamism" in new book
November 2009
Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam was published by Stanford University Press in November 2009. But the story behind the book dates back five years to November 2004.
Shorenstein APARC scholars publish five wide-ranging new books
November 2009
In five new books -- three of which were produced as part of Shorenstein APARC's in-house publishing program -- Center academics tackle an array of issues related to Asia's past, present, and...
- First Drafts of Korea: The U.S. Media and Perceptions of the Last Cold War Frontier
- Political Change in Japan: Electoral Behavior, Party Realignment, and the Koizumi Reforms
- Prescribing Cultures and Pharmaceutical Policy in the Asia-Pacific
- Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement
- Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam
Islamism: What is to be said and done?
November 2009
More than any of his predecessors, President Obama has reached out to "the Muslim world." But what of the terms and the timing of that demarche?
SEAF Scholars Traveling to Philadelphia despite Old Joke
October 2009
Past, present, and future Southeast Asianists linked to SEAF have ignored the hoary joke about the contest whose first prize is one week in Philadelphia and whose second prize is two weeks in that...
Contexts of terror in Indonesia
July 2009
Jim Castle is a friend of mine. I have known him since we were graduate students in Indonesia in the late 1960s.
What's Up with Southeast Asian Studies at Stanford? Recap, Prospect, Controversy
June 2009
The 2008-09 academic year was a busy time for the Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF).
Obama's Trifecta: So Far, So Good
June 2009
US President Barack Hussein Obama's speech on 4 June 2009 in Cairo, the second of three planned trips to Muslim-majority countries, was outstanding.
Islam in Indonesia, Fear in America - A Child's and a Country's Horizons
February 2007
Shorenstein APARC's Donald Emmerson responds to accusations made by Fox News and Insight Magazine "that Obama was influenced by a radical Islamist agenda" when he was a young schoolboy in Jakarta,...
Donald Emmerson, Indonesia expert - on Barack Obama's early religious instruction in Indonesia
January 2007
Donald Emmerson responds to allegations that U.S. presidential hopeful Barak Obama was educated in a madrasah in Jakarta.
Shorenstein APARC's Southeast Asia Forum co-hosts the visit and public lecture by Malaysia's former deputy prime minister
October 2006
Anwar Ibrahim visits Freeman Spogli Institute for a public lecture co-hosted by Shorenstein APARC's Southeast Asia Forum, the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at FSI and...
India's Economic and Political Weekly reviews Prospects for Peace in South Asia
February 2006
At a time of unusual US interest in south Asia it is useful to see how specialists there look at the two issues explored in this book -- the Kashmir conflict and south Asian nuclearisation.
Saving Face and How to Say Farewell
November 2005
Even in the absence of a sudden and dramatic shift on the battlefield toward a definitive victory, there may still be a slight opening, as narrow as the eye of a needle, for the United States to...
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.
U.S. Asian policy for Bush's second term
January 2005
What might we expect of the Bush administration in its second term? APARC's Michael Armacost considers the road ahead.
U.S. not worried about radical Islam's pull on votes
April 2004
Concerns in Washington that more radical Islamic parties might make big gains in Indonesia's parliamentary elections on Monday have largely dissipated. APARC's Donald K. Emmerson weighs in.
