Koret Distinguished Lecture Series
The Koret Distinguished Lecture Series was established at the Korean Studies Program in 2013 with the generous support of the Koret Foundation.
The U.S.-ROK Security Alliance at 60 Years: Looking Back, Looking Forward
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1953 saw both the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement and a Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea. The uneasy and incomplete peace, coupled with a formalized U.S.-ROK security alliance relationship, ushered in a new era on the Korean Peninsula. 2013 marks the 60th anniversary of these pivotal events.
Ambassador Stephens will draw from her experience in Korean affairs over the past four decades, including her tenure as U.S. ambassador to the ROK 2008-2011, to discuss the evolution of the bilateral alliance, its challenges and achievements, and major issues now and going forward. This lunchtime seminar is scheduled to occur immediately upon Ambassador Stephens' return from a visit to Seoul where she will have participated in a first-ever gathering of former American ambassadors to Korea and former Korean ambassadors to the U.S. aimed specifically at reflecting on the U.S.-ROK alliance at 60. Her comments will also be informed by these discussions.
Ambassador Stephens recently completed thirty-five years as a career diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service. She was Acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in 2012, and U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, 2008 to 2011.
Ambassador Stephens has served in numerous posts in Washington, Asia, and Europe. From 2005 to 2007 she was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP). While Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (EUR) from 2003 to 2005, she focused on post-conflict and stabilization issues in the Balkans. She was Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration.
Ambassador Stephens’ overseas postings included service in China, Korea, Yogoslavia, Northern Ireland, Portugal, and Trinidad & Tobago.
Ambassador Stephens received the 2009 Presidential Meritorious Service Award. Other awards and recognition include the Korean government’s Sejong Cultural Prize (2013), and in 2011 the Pacific Century Institute’s Building Bridges Award, the Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, and the Kwanghwa Medal of Diplomatic Merit from the Korean government. Her book, Reflections of an American Ambassador to Korea, based on her Korean-language blog, was published in 2010.
Ambassador Stephens graduated from Prescott College, and holds a master's degree from Harvard University, along with honorary doctoral degrees from Chungnam National University and the University of Maryland. Ambassador Stephens studied at the University of Hong Kong. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Korea in the 1970s.
The Koret Fellowship was established in 2008 through the generosity of the Koret Foundation to promote intellectual diversity and breadth in the KSP by bringing leading professionals in Asia and the United States to Stanford to study U.S.-Korea relations. The fellows conduct their own research on the bilateral relationship, with an emphasis on contemporary relations, with the broad aim of fostering greater understanding and closer ties between the two countries.
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Kathleen Stephens
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William J. Perry Fellow
Kathleen Stephens was the William J. Perry Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center from 2015 to 2017
Kathleen Stephens, a former U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Korea, is the William J. Perry Fellow in the Korea Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC). She has four decades of experience in Korean affairs, first as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Korea in the 1970s, and in ensuing decades as a diplomat and as U.S. ambassador in Seoul.
Stephens came to Stanford previously as the 2013-14 Koret Fellow after 35 years as a U.S. Foreign Service officer. Her time at Stanford, though, was cut short when she was recalled to the diplomatic service to lead the U.S. mission in India as charge d'affaires during the first seven months of the new Indian administration led by Narendra Modi.
Stephens' diplomatic career included serving as acting under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs in 2012; U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Korea from 2008 to 2011; principal deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs from 2005 to 2007; and deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs from 2003 to 2005, responsible for post-conflict issues in the Balkans, including Kosovo's future status and the transition from NATO to EU-led forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
She also served in numerous positions in Asia, Europe and Washington, D.C., including as U.S. consul general in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1995 to 1998, during the negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement, and as director for European affairs at the White House during the Clinton administration, and in China, following normalization of U.S.-PRC relations.
Stephens holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian studies from Prescott College and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University, in addition to honorary degrees from Chungnam National University and the University of Maryland. She studied at the University of Hong Kong and Oxford University, and was an Outward Bound instructor in Hong Kong. She was previously a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.
Stephens' awards include the Presidential Meritorious Service Award (2009), the Sejong Cultural Award, and Korea-America Friendship Association Award (2013). She is a trustee at The Asia Foundation, on the boards of The Korea Society and Pacific Century Institute, and a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy.
She tweets at @AmbStephens.
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Postwar U.S.-Japan "Territorial" Issues and Their Contemporary Implications: Okinawa, Amami, Ogasawara, and the Senkakus
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The territorial dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku/Diaoyutai islands now threatens to be the trigger for a deeper conflict between the two powerful Asian neighbors. This dispute has its origins in the postwar U.S. policy toward Japan, the decision to maintain the occupation of Okinawa and the Senkaku Islands under American administration, and the reversion of that territory to Japanese sovereignty. Dr. Eldridge, who has done extensive research on these issues and has published widely, including a new book on the origins of U.S. policy, will discuss his writings on Okinawa, Amami, Ogasawara/Iwo Jima, and the Senkakus to date and introduce research topics for the future.
Robert D. Eldridge is a visiting researcher at Okinawa International University’s Institute of Law and Politics, and a former tenured associate professor at Osaka University's Graduate School of International Public Policy. Eldridge earned his PhD in 1999 from Kobe University and is the author, editor, and translator of more than two dozen books on U.S.-Japan relations, Okinawan history, and Japanese politics and diplomacy, including several titles to be published in 2013: An Inoffensive Rearmament: The Making of the Postwar Japanese Army (Naval Institute Press); Japan’s Backroom Politics (Lexington); Iwo Jima and Ogasawara in U.S.-Japan Relations: American Strategy, Japanese Territory, and the Islanders In-between (Marine Corps University Press); and The Origins of U.S. Policy in the East China Sea Islands Dispute: Okinawa’s Reversion and the Senkaku Islands (Routledge).
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Robert D. Eldridge
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Systemic Flaws within China's Health Care System
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Recent arrests of some Chinese doctors and employees of a multinational pharmaceutical firm provide a window into the incentive distortions of China's healthcare system, as highlighted in an August 7th article of ChinaOutlook that quoted health economist and AHPP program director Karen Eggleston.
http://china-outlook.net/systemic-flaws-within-chinas-health-care-system/
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Jeremy Menchik Wins Award for Dissertation
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Annually since 1995, the American Political Science Association has given an Aaron Wildavsky award to the "best" recent PhD dissertation on the subject of religion and politics. Normally a single dissertation is selected. In 2013, for the first time, a second dissertation was recognized with an Honorable Mention. Its author is Jeremy Menchik, an assistant professor in international relations at Boston University. Its title is "Tolerance Without Liberalism: Islamic Institutions and Political Violence in Twentieth Century Indonesia."
In 2011 Prof. Menchik was chosen to be a Shorenstein post-doctoral fellow at APARC. During his stay at Stanford in 2011-12 he revised his thesis for publication, worked on a new project on religio-political identity in Indonesia as revealed by election campaign symbols, and presented findings from his research and writing at a seminar hosted by SEAF. In 2012-13 he was a research associate at the American University of Beirut. In 2013 he began his tenure-track position at Boston University. His advanced degrees in political science are from the University of Wisconsin- (PhD, MA) and the University of Michigan.
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New Book on "Uncivil Society in Thailand" by Former Shorenstein / Asia Foundation Fellow and SEAF Speaker Pof. Pawakapan
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The Southeast Asia Forum congratulates Puangthong Pawakapan, a professor of international relations and Southeast Asian studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and an "alumni" of SEAF. In 2010-11, as a Shorenstein / Asia Foundation research fellow at APARC, she worked on a book manuscript on the Preah Vihear Temple controversy involving Thailand and Cambodia. Her SEAF lecture on the subject was well received. The manuscript has been published as State and Uncivil Society in Thailand at the Temple of Preah Vihear (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013). For more on Prof. Pawakapan, see <http://aparc.stanford.edu/people/Puangthong_Pawakapan>.
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Wei Wang
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Wei Wang is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2013-14. She has worked at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) for 18 years. Currently, she is the Deputy General Manager of the Corporate Banking Deptartment II of ICBC's head office and a member of both the Senior Credit Review Committee and Senior INvestment Review Committee. Wang holds a certification of Certified Public Accountants, received her master's degree in industrial management engineering from the Harbin Institute Technology of China, and an IMBA degree from the University of Hong Kong.
Tun Wang
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Tun Wang is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2013-14. Wang has worked at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) for 17 years. Currently, he is the deputy head of the Global Market Department in the head office in Beijing. He received his bachelor's degree in Electronics and IT Systems from Ocean University of China and his master's degree in Finance from the Graduate School of People's Bank of China. His work experience and research activities focus on financial market trading business.
Huihong Cai
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow, 2013-14
Huihong Cai is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2013-14. Cai has worked at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) for 17 years - participating in a majority of the projects of IT infrastructure construction such as the project of Data Consolidation and the project of Recovery Data Center Construction. Currently, he is the Section Chief of the System Management Division of the IT Department at ICBC's head office in Beijing. Previously, he worked in other divisions & branches and served as the Deputy Mayor of Wanyuan in the Sichuan Province for one year. Cai received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering form Zhejiang University and his MBA from the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE).
New Shorenstein APARC book analyzes the rise, policies, and fall of Japan's DPJ
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Just a couple of weeks after last month's defeat of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in the upper-house elections comes the timely publication of Japan under the DPJ: The Politics of Transition and Governance, a new book from the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, coedited by Kenji E. Kushida (Takahashi Research Associate in Japanese Studies) and Phillip Y. Lipscy (Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow).
Japan under the DPJ endeavors to explain the DPJ's rapid rise to power in 2009, examines the limited policy change that occured while the party was in power, and analyzes what led to the party's dramatic fall in 2012. The volume consists of 14 chapters addressing electoral structure, party recruitment and partisianship, DPJ domestic and foreign policy, and the DPJ's response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Japan under the DPJ is available for purchase now from Brookings Institution Press; you can also download the table of contents and introductory chapter from the related publication link, below.
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