February 28th, 2011

Celebrating ten years of Korean studies at Stanford

Gi-Wook Shin came from the University of California, Los Angeles to Stanford University in 2001 to establish a program in Korean studies. "Naturally, I had mixed feelings—of excitement and hope, but also of anxiety and uncertainty," says Shin. "Looking back, I made the right decision." The Stanford Korean Studies Program, today a thriving and vibrant program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, recently held a series of major events to celebrate its tenth anniversary in February 2011. Read more »

September 22nd, 2010

Shorenstein APARC publishes final book in regionalism series

Shorenstein APARC proudly announces the publication of Does South Asia Exist? Prospects for Regional Integration, the final volume in its three-part series on regionalism in Asia. With a special focus on India, this lively and broad-based volume uses a comparative perspective to draw on theories of trade, security, great-power influence, and domestic political theory to examine the prospects for South Asian regionalism. Other titles in the Asian regionalism series include Hard Choices: Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia (2008) and Cross Currents: Regionalism and Nationalism in Northeast Asia (2007).

April 22nd, 2010

Shorenstein APARC scholars win fellowships from National Bureau of Asian Research-Woodrow Wilson Center

Associate director for research Daniel C. Sneider and SEAF director Donald K. Emmerson will be part of the inaugural class class of research associates and fellows of the National Asia Research Program (NARP). After a competitive, nationwide selection process, the winners were selected based on their research into issues of importance to U.S. interests in Asia. "Our goal in this new program is to highlight and reward scholars who have successfully bridged the gap between the academy and policy," said NBR President and NARP co-director Richard Ellings. Associate director for research Daniel C. Sneider and SEAF director Donald K. Emmerson will be part of the inaugural class class of research associates and fellows of the National Asia Research Program (NARP). After a competitive, nationwide selection process, the winners were selected based on their research into issues of importance to U.S. interests in Asia. "Our goal in this new program is to highlight and reward scholars who have successfully bridged the gap between the academy and policy," said NBR President and NARP co-director Richard Ellings. Read more »

January 15th, 2010

Korean Ethnic Nationalism in an Era of Globalization

At the 4th Social Science Workshop held at Yonsei University in Seoul, Gi-Wook Shin, director of Asia-Pacific Research Center, discussed how the politics of ethnic nationalism have played out in various contexts including anti-colonialism, civil war, authoritarian politics, democratization, territorial division, and, now, globalization. The video of his presentation is available (in Korean).

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October 24th, 2007

New book examines the cross currents of growing regional integration and rising nationalism in Northeast Asia

The latest volume in Shorenstein APARC's series with the Brookings Institution has just been released. Edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel Sneider, Cross Currents: Regionalism and Nationalism in Northeast Asia sheds new light on the interplay of national and regional forces in this strategic part of the world.
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November 19th, 2006

Asia is a good place to begin rebalancing U.S. foreign policy because it is huge, it is dynamic -- and it is not Iraq says Shorenstein APARC's Donald Emmerson

It is tempting to dismiss President Bush's travel through Southeast Asia as aimless floating by a doubly lame duck. Getting things done will be harder without either the right to run for a third term in 2008 or the support of a legislative majority between now and then. But if that means having to work with others, at home ... Read more »

November 15th, 2006

APEC and the future of regionalism in Asia

On November 2, 2006, Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, in association with University of California, Berkeley's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center, convened regional and economic experts to discuss the role of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group, and its relationship to the future of regionalism and regional integration in East Asia. Read more »