Copy
Events           Research           People           Give          Contact Us       I       FSI

Narrowing the Gaps                                      June 2014 

Publishing hiatus: this e-newsletter will resume this October in the next academic year.
"The reality of socioeconomic decline...has devastated Muslim communities throughout Asia. The net result is peculiar social and cultural stasis and lack of social mobility among the vast majority of Muslims – at a time when social structures, cultural conventions, and established hierarchies are being overturned at an unprecedented rate by Asia's continuing economic growth," Rafiq Dossani says. (Modes of Engagement: Muslim Minorities in Asia, Shorenstein APARC, June 2014).
Shorenstein APARC fosters dialogue on Muslim experience in Asia through new book

Rafiq Dossani, a senior researcher at RAND and former senior research scholar at Shorenstein APARC, examines the paradox of Muslim minority decline in Asia within a new book. He says a way forward is for governments to focus development projects on the poorest, thereby incorporating that peripheral group. (photo credit: UN). Read more >>
Japan's political leadership helped save country from worst-case Fukushima disaster Kenji Kushida, the Takahashi Research Associate in Japanese Studies, argues Japan's government leadership under Prime Minister Naoto Kan and the Democratic Party of Japan was on balance, beneficial, during the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. (photo credit: IAEA). Read more >>
US-China relations headed for "scratchy time," says Oksenberg lecturer Kenneth Lieberthal of The Brookings Institution delivered the annual Oksenberg Lecture on U.S-China relations. He was joined by a panel of scholars from Stanford and Cui Liru from CICIR. Afterward in a Q&A, Karl Eikenberry shared his observations from the Shangri-La Dialogue. Read more >>
Indonesia's cash transfer programs are valuable, Stanford health fellow finds Nearly 44 percent of Indonesia's population is living on less than $2 a day, making it near impossible for some to seek proper health treatment. Postdoctoral fellow Margaret Triyana says one way to improve this situation is through conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs. (photo credit: World Bank). Read more >>
View All News
Recent Publications
View All Publications
Faculty Spotlight

Phillip Lipscy recently spoke with Shorenstein APARC about his time at Stanford and research focus on East Asian political economy and international relations. Read more >>
 
Featured Events -- Join us
 

July 28
Governors' Meeting in Silicon Valley: U.S.-Japan Economic Collaboration at the State Prefecture Level


Please check our calendar this September to find out about upcoming events in the next academic year.
 
View All Events
Related Opportunities


Stanford's Sejong Korean Scholars Program (SKSP): Virtual education opportunity for U.S. high school students

 
Find us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
Visit our Website
You have received this e-newsletter because you have subscribed to it, or have expressed interest in Shorenstein APARC's programs. Should you wish to unsubscribe at any point, please click the link below.

Copyright © 2014 Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, All rights reserved.

Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
616 Serra Street, Encina Hall E301
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6055

Add us to your address book      Forward this email to a friend

Unsubscribe from this list            Update subscription preferences