http://aparc.stanford.edu/Recent news, events + publications from Shorenstein APARCen-usPublic domainhttp://aparc.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://aparc.stanford.edu/60http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1747David Straub, the acting director of Korean Studies Program, argues that Obama administration will finally give diplomacy a chance to deal with the North Korean nuclear problem. He stresses that Senator Obama understands the difficulties of dealing with North Korea and will proceed carefully. If North Korea does not respond to this more nuanced American approach, he concludes, the international community is likely to be more supportive of U.S. efforts to constrain North Korean behavior.]]>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1747http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1744"With the current affairs such as the financial crisis and the Iraq War," %people1%, the director of Shorenstein APARC, says "the new Obama administration may not have the North Korea issues on its priority list for a while. Lee Myung-bak administration, meanwhile, is urged to revisit the workable policies of the past as well as to initiate the pragmatic diplomacy towards the collaboration between South Korea and the U.S."]]>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1744http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1743Professor Phillip Lipscy discusses the current international financial crisis and provides insight for future reforms. "The IMF and World Bank should be reformed to better reflect the interests and concerns of rising economic powers. Voting shares need to be further redistributed to reflect underlying economic realities. Decisionmaking rules should be modified to give greater weight or agenda-setting authority to regional actors - the US may have a strong interest in loans to Mexico, but Japan may have a greater stake in Indonesia. Assignment of the top positions should be made truly competitive. Core functions should be decentralized - both institutions are headquartered in Washington, impeding employment of top talent from Asia and limiting intellectual exchange."]]>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1743http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1742An international conference on "Divided Memories and Reconciliation: History Text Books and War" was held on September 29, at Northeast Asia History Foundation in Korea. The first part of Divided Memories Project, a three-year joint project of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Northeast Asia History Foundation, is to study and analyze how high school history text books in Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and US describe the violent history between the 1931 Manchurian Incident to the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty, as the textbooks serve as the master narrative that composes the historical memory of a nation.]]>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1742http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1733Dr. Marcus Feldman of Stanford's Biology department discussed the sex-ratio imbalance and gender studies in China in the first of three colloquia on "The Implications of Demographic Change in China," co-sponsored by the Asia Health Policy Program and the Stanford China Program.]]>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1733http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1727Will the 2008 election bring dramatic change in U.S. Korea policy? %people1%, the associate director of research at APARC says "There are important differences of emphasis in the approaches of both candidates, but the bottom line is that both men are likely to pick up where President George W. Bush leaves off."]]>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1727http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1713Kyung Yoon, Vice Chairman of Heidrick & Struggles and SPRIE Advisory Board member, has been selected by the Society of Asian Women Leaders to receive their Woman of the Year "Guidling Light Award for Leadership."]]>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1713http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1705%people1%, associate director of the Korean Studies Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, has proposed an oral history project to flesh out the story of U.S-Korean relations. "While books may last forever, one 'non-renewable' source of information and wisdom is the oral history of our forerunners," says Straub. " When our elders and predecessors pass away, we bitterly regret that we did not ask them more about their experiences and insights."]]>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1705http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1650Over more than six decades, the partnership between the United States and the Republic of Korea has been subject to many stresses and strains, from the Korean War to coping with the challenge of North Korea's nuclear ambitions. More recently, the democratization of South Korea has opened the alliance to much greater public scrutiny and pressures from an active and mobilized Korean public. Managing this strategic alliance in an era of democracy has been a focus of the research work on Korea conducted by FSI's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.]]>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1650http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1698Shorenstein APARC director %people1% offered his analysis of the possible scenarios for succession of power in North Korea in an interview with the New York Times. Shin told The Times that he thought the Kim dynasty would continue to play a role, even if symbolic in the structure, of power in North Korea. "My guess is like this: they will keep the Kim family as a social and political institution like the emperor system in Japan, offering symbolic and moral power for North Koreans, but are likely to establish a collective leadership system in which the military will play a key role. We may, then, witness some political instability in the North."]]>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1698http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5496RSVP (RSVP required)
Heidi Syren Linton, Executive Director, Christian Friends of Korea]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:09:13 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5496http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5483Open to the public
Richard Katz; Mark Spiegel]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:06:09 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5483http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5407RSVP Required (RSVP required)
Jeanne Shea, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Vermont]]>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:54:22 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5407http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5488Open to the public
Robert Eberhart; Shigeo Kagami; Michael Alfant; Richard Dasher]]>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:46:21 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5488http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5473Open to the public (RSVP required)
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Arthur Bienenstock, Special Assistant to the President for Federal Research Policy, Stanford University]]>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:11:06 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5463http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5486Open to the public (RSVP required)
Michael Meyer]]>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:12:26 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5486http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5474RSVP Required
Clint Eastwood, Director]]>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:18:25 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5474http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5500By Invitation Only (RSVP required)
Michael Berry; David Desser; Aaron Gerow; Kyung Hyun Kim; Kyu Hyun Kim; Hyangjin Lee; Chiho Sawada; Robert Brent Toplin; Ban Wang Ban Wang; Yingjin Zhang Yingjin Zhang; Scott Bukatman; Alisa Jones; Jenny Lau; Daniel C. Sneider]]>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:39:31 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5500http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5497By Invitation Only (RSVP required)
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Although genetically modified (GM) crops are being grown on increasing large areas in both developed and developing countries, with few minor exceptions, there has been almost no country that has commercialized a GM major food crop. One reason may be that it is unclear how the commercialization of GM crops will help poor, small farmers. The objective of this article is to report on the results of an economic analysis that uses 3 years of data from a series of quasi-experimental areas (called preproduction trials) in China's GM rice program that were carried out in the fields of small and relatively poor producers in two provinces in China. The article shows that the use of GM rice by farmers in preproduction trials allows farmers to reduce pesticide use and labor input. The effect on yields is less clear, and the findings suggest that there is very little if any yield effect. The article concludes by arguing that the commercialization of GM rice in China could have consequences that exceed the direct impacts on China's farmers and could be a key step in breaking the world's current plant biotechnology logjam.]]>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:58:20 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/publications/22190http://aparc.stanford.edu/publications/22189World Development vol. 36, 2008
The overall goal of the paper is to better understand the development of groundwater markets in northern China. Field survey shows that groundwater markets in northern China have emerged and are developing rapidly. Developing in a number of ways that make them appear somewhat similar to markets that are found in South Asia, groundwater markets in northern China also differ by the impersonality and case bases. The privatization of tubewells is one of the most important driving factors encouraging the development of groundwater markets. Increasing water and land scarcity are also major determinants that induce the development of groundwater markets.]]>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:29:51 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/publications/22189