http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from Shorenstein APARCen-usPublic domainhttp://aparc.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/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/1747?http://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/1744?http://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/1743?http://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/1742?http://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/1733?http://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/1727?http://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/1713?http://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/1705?http://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/1650?http://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/1698?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1695Pyongyang suspends its dismantling plans. Is North Korea hoping to push the Bush administration into reconsidering its verification policies or "playing for time in hopes of winning a better deal from" the next administration? Shorenstein APARC's associate director for research, %people1%, suggests they could be doing both.]]>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1695?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1688While the United States has been focused on the Middle East, dramatic changes have been taking place in Asia. The region is relatively peaceful and economic growth has been impressive. However, new powers have emerged, while some of our old friends have become more assertive within the region. %people1% and J. Stapleton Roy, two of America's foremost Asia policy experts, offer advice to the incoming U.S. administration.]]>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1688?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1680Five Southeast Asia scholars are slated for residence at Stanford for the upcoming academic year. Shorenstein APARC and the Southeast Asia Forum will host four of them: three were selected under the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on Southeast Asia, and one is a recipient of a 2008-09 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship. A fifth scholar will be on campus as a National Fellow of the Hoover Institution.]]>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1680?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1677Shorenstein APARC director %people1% and Korean Studies associate director %people2% point out the importance of building long-term strategies by top foreign policy experts in the international community.]]>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1677?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1671Korean Studies Program associate director %people1% argued in the Nelson Report, a top Washington, D.C. policy newsletter, that Korea needs to take a strategic approach toward the controversy with Japan over the Dokdo Islets ("Takeshima" in Japanese). Widely reported in Korea, Straub's message urged Korea to base its policy on the fact that it has effective control of the islets.]]>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1671?