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Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship program grows
Encina Hall, Stanford University campus. (George Krompacky)
In the coming academic year, the Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship program will double in size. The four incoming fellows represent the best of the next generation of contemporary Asia scholars. Their research ranges from civil society and authoritarian governance in China to ethnic conflict in South Asia, and Korean migration and identity to election politics in Japan.
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For the Future
China must invest more in rural children, say Stanford scholars
School children in Gansu province in western China. (Adam Gorlick)
As China's economy grows so does the prevalence of social inequality. In a YaleGlobal Online article, a team of Shorenstein APARC China experts says the country must invest more now in education and public health programs for its rural children or it will face major growth challenges in the near future.
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Book Review
Praise for Beyond North Korea
Windmills in Yeongdeok, South Korea, Jun. 2011. Energy is one of many factors related to South Korea's security. (Flickr/briancolella)
Beyond North Korea: Future Challenges to South Korea's Security (Shorenstein APARC, 2011) takes a broad, long-term look at the security of South Korea. A recent International Affairs review calls it: "an excellent examination of the dynamism that characterizes contemporary South Korea."
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Book description.
True-to-Life
Students learn through assignments based on real global events
East Asia Trilateral Summit, Oct. 2009. (Flickr/Korea.net)
Stanford students in the winter quarter course U.S. Policy toward Northeast Asia (IPS 244) had the opportunity to step into the challenging role of a National Security Council staff member and consider how they would advise the United States on responding to a crisis in East Asia.
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In Seoul
North Korea and the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit
Media center at the Nuclear Security Summit, Mar. 2012.
(Dean Calma/IAEA)
Global leaders met in Seoul last week for the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit. A major subject of discussion was North Korea's nuclear program and its proposed rocket launch. David Straub and Daniel C. Sneider weigh in.
David Straub Q&A.
Daniel C. Sneider interview.
Beyond Religious Identity
Seminar series to examine the experience of Asia's Muslim minorities
An elderly Uighur woman in China's northwestern province of Xinjiang, Sept. 2010. (Flickr/Preston Rhea)
A new Shorenstein APARC event series will explore the complex ties between identity and the social, political, and economic status of Asia's Muslim minorities, with a focus on China, India, the Philippines, and Thailand.
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Featured Events
Changing Course?
A Critical Analysis of South Korea's Parliamentary Election Results
Gi-Wook Shin
and Daniel C. Sneider
Stanford University
Apr. 16
Encina Hall, Stanford
The Political Presence
of India's Muslims
Wajahat Habibullah
National Commission for Minorities, India
Apr. 25
Encina Hall, Stanford
Patterns of Life Expectancy among the Elderly in Three Chinese Cities
Edward Jow-Ching Tu
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Apr. 30
Encina Hall, Stanford
Selected Publications
Peacemaker:
Twenty Years of Inter-Korean Relations and the North Korean Nuclear Issue
(Forthcoming Apr. 2012)
Lim Dong-won
Aging Asia:
The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea
(2010)
Karen Eggleston and Shripad Tuljapurkar, eds.
Does South Asia Exist?
Prospects for Regional Integration
(2010)
Rafiq Dossani, Daniel C. Sneider, and Vikram Sood, eds.
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