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Donald K. Emmerson, PhD

Director, Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF); Affiliated Faculty, CDDRL; Affiliated Scholar, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies; and Senior Fellow Emeritus, FSI

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January 18th, 2013

The American pivot in Southeast Asia

Shorenstein APARC, SEAF Op-ed

"As much as China is front and center for the United States and Asia, the American pivot is not all about the dragon. It is also very much about the 10 member states of ASEAN," says Donald K. Emmerson in a recent opinion article.




December 11th, 2012

Barbara Demick named 2012 Shorenstein Journalism Award winner

Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford News

The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center has named Los Angeles Times Beijing bureau chief Barbara Demick winner of the 2012 Shorenstein Journalism Award. Demick was selected for her innovative and extraordinarily sensitive reporting on Northeast Asia over the past decade. Read more »



November 15th, 2012

Asia-Pacific policy during Obama's second term

Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford, SEAF News

Fresh off his re-election victory, Barack Obama -- the "Pacific President" -- became the first president to visit Myanmar and Cambodia when he traveled to the Southeast Asian countries in November. Eight Shorenstein APARC scholars discussed reactions to the election in Asia, and possible directions for U.S.-Asia relations and foreign policy. Read more »



October 29th, 2012

Stability, reform and democracy in Myanmar

Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford, SEAF News

Myanmar has made tremendous strides in its political and economic reform efforts since 2011. Donald K. Emmerson recently discussed Myanmar's path to democracy within the context of the country's history, the current unrest in Rakhine State, and looking ahead to 2014 when Myanmar chairs ASEAN and prepares for its next presidential election. Read more »



July 17th, 2012

ASEAN issues statement delayed over Scarborough Shoal

Shorenstein APARC, SEAF in the news

Scarborough Shoal, a small lagoon in the South China Sea, remains the center of a months-long standoff between China and the Philippines. Donald Emmerson discusses Indonesia's role in leading ASEAN, after a week of silence, to announce a consensus that avoids the issue.





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America pivots toward ASEAN
Don Emmerson: "To the sounds of a gamelan orchestra, white-dressed Balinese pay ritual homage to Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge and learning. The timing is apt as over a thousand journalists and others try to ...
November 22, 2011 in Asia Times Online

US, China role play for ASEAN
Don Emmerson: "Southeast Asian policymakers looking north to the Asian mainland and east across the Pacific Ocean see two major, different, and complementary assets to their region: China's biggest-in-the-world economy and America's best-in-the-world military."
November 18, 2011 in Asia Times Online

China-Vietnam: Weighing the Cost-Benefit of War in South China Sea Face-Off
"There is a way to measure how likely things are to lead to military confrontation," said Dr. Donald K. Emmerson, Director of the Southeast Asia Forum at Stanford University. Emmerson attended the 2011 Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore, after Chinese ships cut cords on PetroVietnam's survey ships late last month.
June 15, 2011 in International Business Times

Lessons from a whirlwind
Donald K Emmerson is an affiliate of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University and a co-author of Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam (2010). His website is http://seaf.stanford.edu/people/donaldkemmerson/.
February 22, 2011 in Asia Times Online

Obama Speaks to Two Muslim Worlds from Indonesia
Donald Emmerson is the director of the Southeast Asia Forum at Stanford University and Imam Shamsi Ali runs the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City.
November 10, 2010 in The Takeaway

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