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William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics, Emeritus; CISAC Faculty Member; FSI Senior Fellow, by courtesy

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April 6th, 2011

North Korea economic officials visit Stanford

Shorenstein APARC, KSP News

On Friday, April 1, Stanford University hosted twelve North Korean officials making an unprecedented economic tour of the United States. Organized by Professor Susan Shirk of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the two-week tour of American businesses and academic institutions was an opportunity for the visitors to see firsthand what improved relations with the United States might mean in terms of economic cooperation. Read more »



January 18th, 2011

Managing the relationship between Washington and Beijing

CISAC, FSI Stanford in the news

With Chinese President Hu Jintao visiting Washington this week, CISAC scholars past and present -- Thomas Fingar, Nina Hachigian, Daniel M. Kliman, and John Lewis -- weigh in on the bilateral relationship and the key challenges facing Hu and President Barack Obama.




December 6th, 2010

John Lewis: An 80th birthday celebration

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, friends, students, and colleagues pay tribute to John Lewis and his work.




November 30th, 2010

Review U.S. policy toward North Korea

Op-ed: Washington Post on November 22, 2010

"Review U.S. Policy Toward North Korea" by Robert Carlin and John Lewis.




November 19th, 2010

CISAC team discovers new North Korean uranium enrichment facility

CISAC, FSI Stanford in the news

CISAC's Siegfried Hecker, Robert Carlin, and John Lewis recently returned from North Korea, where it was revealed to them that Pyongyang was working on a new light-water reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear center, as well as a small, ultra-modern, industrial-scale uranium enrichment facility. "How the United States and its partners respond to these developments may help to shape whether Pyongyang will rely more on the bomb or begin a shift toward nuclear electricity," Hecker wrote in a report on their findings.





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Visiting North Korea: Q&A with Siegfried Hecker
My colleague, John Lewis from Stanford University, had been having an ongoing track II dialog with the North Koreans since 1986. And in 2003 the situation was indeed very grim, in that North Korea had had some altercations with the US in 2002, ...
February 23, 2011 in PhysicsToday.org (blog)

Stanford's Hecker provides window into North Korea's nuclear activity
Hecker was joined on the trip by visiting scholar Robert Carlin and emeritus professor John Lewis, both of CISAC. Though their guides at Yongbyon said the ...
December 1, 2010 in The Stanford Daily

North Korea claims thousands of centrifuges for peaceful nuclear program
... Hecker stated of his visit to the North Korean plant with two of his Stanford colleagues, John Lewis and Robert Carlin, "Our jaws just dropped."
November 30, 2010 in Examiner.com

Stanford's North Korea team of Siegfried Hecker and John Lewis keeps the world ...
Hecker recently returned from North Korea with CISAC colleagues John Lewis and Robert Carlin. It was Hecker's fourth trip since 2004, and Lewis' 20 th visit ...
November 30, 2010 in Stanford University News

Diehling with the Past and Extraterrestrials
But Stanford scholars Robert Carlin and John Lewis — who actually visited the North Korean uranium-enrichment facility "not two weeks ago" — urge policy makers ...
November 22, 2010 in The National Interest Online

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