http://aparc.stanford.edu/Recent news, events + publications from Shorenstein APARCen-usPublic domainhttp://aparc.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://aparc.stanford.edu/60http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1713Kyung Yoon, Vice Chairman of Heidrick & Struggles and SPRIE Advisory Board member, has been selected by the Society of Asian Women Leaders to receive their Woman of the Year "Guidling Light Award for Leadership."]]>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1713http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1705%people1%, Associate Director of Korean Studies Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, proposes an oral history project to flesh out the story of U.S-Korean relations. "While books may last forever, one "non-renewable" source of information and wisdom is the oral history of our forerunners. When our elders and predecessors pass away, we bitterly regret that we did not ask them more about their experiences and insights. Thus I was delighted when I recently discovered a treasure trove of oral histories of American diplomats." says Straub.]]>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1705http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1650Over more than six decades, the partnership between the United States and the Republic of Korea has been subject to many stresses and strains, from the Korean War to coping with the challenge of North Korea's nuclear ambitions. More recently, the democratization of South Korea has opened the alliance to much greater public scrutiny and pressures from an active and mobilized Korean public. Managing this strategic alliance in an era of democracy has been a focus of the research work on Korea conducted by FSI's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.]]>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1650http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1698North Korean Leader Had Surgery After Stroke, South Koreans Say]]>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1698http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1695Pyongyang suspends its dismantling plans. Is North Korea hoping to push the Bush administration into reconsidering its verification policies or "playing for time in hopes of winning a better deal from" the next administration? Shorenstein APARC's associate director for research, %people1%, suggests they could be doing both.]]>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1695http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1688While the United States has been focused on the Middle East, dramatic changes have been taking place in Asia. The region is relatively peaceful and economic growth has been impressive. However, new powers have emerged, while some of our old friends have become more assertive within the region. %people1% and J. Stapleton Roy, two of America's foremost Asia policy experts, offer advice to the incoming US administration.]]>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1688http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1680Five Southeast Asia scholars are slated for residence at Stanford for the upcoming academic year. Shorenstein APARC and the Southeast Asia Forum will host four of them: three were selected under the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on Southeast Asia, and one is a recipient of a 2008-09 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship. A fifth scholar will be on campus as a National Fellow of the Hoover Institution.]]>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1680http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1677Shorenstein APARC director %people1% and Korean Studies associate director %people2% point out the importance of building long-term strategies by top foreign policy experts in the international community.]]>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1677http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1671Korean Studies Program associate director %people1% argued in the Nelson Report, a top Washington, D.C. policy newsletter, that Korea needs to take a strategic approach toward the controversy with Japan over the Dokdo Islets ("Takeshima" in Japanese). Widely reported in Korea, Straub's message urged Korea to base its policy on the fact that it has effective control of the islets.]]>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1671http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1673The inaugural (March 2008) issue of PRISM, an undergraduate journal published by the University Scholars Programme (USP) of the National University of Singapore (NUS), carries a dozen essays. Six were written by Stanford undergraduates for a Stanford Overseas Seminar taught in Singapore in September 2006, and six by NUS undergrads in the USP for an NUS course taught at Stanford in May 2007.]]>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1673http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5348Open to the public (RSVP required)
Judith Banister, Director of Global Demographics, The Conference Board]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:21:34 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5348http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5450RSVP Required (RSVP required)
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The Honorable Karl F. Inderfurth; The Honorable Teresita Schaffer; The Honorable Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.]]>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:18:03 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5406http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5264By Invitation Only
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Amb. Jeffrey Bader; Dan Blumenthal]]>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:18:59 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5451http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5408RSVP Required (RSVP required)
Mike Chinoy, Edgerton Senior Fellow, Pacific Council on International Policy]]>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:41:30 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5408http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5383Open to the public (RSVP required)
Se-Il Park, Visiting Scholar, APARC]]>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:14:59 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5383http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5452By Invitation Only (RSVP required)
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Jeanne Shea, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Vermont]]>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:53:22 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/events/5407http://aparc.stanford.edu/publications/22235Shorenstein APARC, distributed by Brookings Institution Press, November 2008
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Although genetically modified (GM) crops are being grown on increasing large areas in both developed and developing countries, with few minor exceptions, there has been almost no country that has commercialized a GM major food crop. One reason may be that it is unclear how the commercialization of GM crops will help poor, small farmers. The objective of this article is to report on the results of an economic analysis that uses 3 years of data from a series of quasi-experimental areas (called preproduction trials) in China's GM rice program that were carried out in the fields of small and relatively poor producers in two provinces in China. The article shows that the use of GM rice by farmers in preproduction trials allows farmers to reduce pesticide use and labor input. The effect on yields is less clear, and the findings suggest that there is very little if any yield effect. The article concludes by arguing that the commercialization of GM rice in China could have consequences that exceed the direct impacts on China's farmers and could be a key step in breaking the world's current plant biotechnology logjam.]]>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:58:20 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/publications/22190http://aparc.stanford.edu/publications/22189World Development vol. 36, 2008
The overall goal of the paper is to better understand the development of groundwater markets in northern China. Field survey shows that groundwater markets in northern China have emerged and are developing rapidly. Developing in a number of ways that make them appear somewhat similar to markets that are found in South Asia, groundwater markets in northern China also differ by the impersonality and case bases. The privatization of tubewells is one of the most important driving factors encouraging the development of groundwater markets. Increasing water and land scarcity are also major determinants that induce the development of groundwater markets.]]>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:29:51 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/publications/22189http://aparc.stanford.edu/publications/22160Value in Health vol. 11, 2008
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