EAI

Governance Roundtable

Political conflicts are a strong feature of Korean society as its citizens clash amongst themselves on numerous issues such as class, religion, region, generation, values and ideology. The past 30 years experimentation of democracy has demonstrated the fact that the central government alone cannot administer these multilayered conflicts and mitigate their characteristics.

U.S.-China Relations 2025

The restructuring of regional order in East Asia comes primarily from the dynamics of the world��s two major powers-China and the United States. China is largely extending its role not only in Northeast Asia but in the international community as a whole, seeking to become a global power.

EPIK Spiders Program

In the era of globalization, talented students with globalized minds are cultivated in many distinguished universities of home and abroad; however they are merely scattered throughout the world without given the opportunities to share their visions and knowledge. Their globalized insights and capabilities can only become a national asset when they are networked through a channel.

3rd Alliance Transformation 2009

EAI hosted the third Korea-U.S. Alliance Conference titled ��An ROK-US Alliance for the 21st century" on November 3, 2009. In the first session, former Senior Secretary for Foreign Affairs and National Security, Byung-Kook Kim (Korea University) and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Thomas J. Christensen (Princeton University) delivered a lecture on the topic of "Korea-U.S. alliance and Peace in East Asia."

ROK-US Alliance Transformation

ROK-US Alliance Transformation 1st Conference, ROK-US Alliance Transformation 2nd Conference

Korea-Australia Leadership Forum

Korea-Australia Leadership Forum 2008, Korea-Australia Leadership Forum 2009

Social Justice

Collective Wisdom, Democratic Leadership, Reciprocal Nondomination

Regional Cooperation

East Asian Community, Inherited Responsibility, Multicultural Coexistence

Global Ethics

Comparison of Thoughts between East and West, Global Citizenship Education, Patriotism without Nationalism

Elections

2008 General Election Panel, 2007 Presidential Election Panel, 2006 Local Election Panel

Korean Public Opinion

Economist Panel Studies, Influence of Power Organizations, National Security and FDI, ROK-US Relations, Survey Research on Social Status

Global Public Opinion

Global Views Series, World Public Opinion Survey

Global Citizenship Education

The Center for Values and Ethics aims to present curricular for global citizenship education which not only fosters democratic citizenship with individual freedom and civic responsibility, but also broadens this citizenship to respect different cultures and exercise humanitarian compassion.

Comparison of Thoughts between East and West

The Comparison of Thoughts between East and West Project aims at offering a cross-cultural theoretical framework that includes both particularity of East Asia and universality. For this purpose, the project synthesizes and compares the understandings of human being and society in East and West by reinterpreting classics which contain cultural similarities and historical experiences in East Asia.

Patriotism without Nationalism

The study on Patriotism without Nationalism is based on the assumption that a kind of patriotism is different from nationalism and exists as a socio-political entity. As such patriotism can offset the shortcomings of exclusive nationalism and become an ethical base to induce voluntary devotions from self-interested individuals for the community.

Multicultural Coexistence

The Center for Values and Ethics seeks to suggest a consistent principle which will prevent the policy of multiculturalism from resulting in exclusion or assimilation of a minority group or regressing due to the antipathy toward immigrants.

Inherited Responsibility

Economic and cultural interchange falls short of being a sufficient condition to achieving peaceful coexistence in East Asia even if this brings about regional interdependence and multilateral security. Not until historical reconciliation serves as a stepping stone can we generate cross-national mutual trust and prevent national sentiment from resurging.

East Asian Community

With the observation that previous studies on East Asian community have overlooked diversity among nations in the region, the Center for Values and Ethics seeks for a non-ethnocentric model of the community by which we can acknowledge cultural identity of each country, and at the same time, establish a common ground.

Reciprocal Nondomination

The Center for Values and Ethics seeks to offer reciprocal nondomination as a regulative principle by which we can resolve multicultural as well as sociopolitical conflicts that have increased sharply with democratization and globalization.

Democratic Leadership

The Center for Values and Ethics seeks for a desirable model of democratic leadership by which we can find the best possible choice in unpredictable political circumstances. It also seeks to reinvigorate citizens to be a proactive agent in their political life. This will aim to transform them from being passive, responding only intermittently to dramatic issues set by politicians and militant political activists.

Collective wisdom

The Center for Values and Ethics has organized the Collective Wisdom Society to study whether diversity can produce a better outcome than expertise in a collective decision-making. The study has two main focuses: First, it will suggest political and social conditions under which the collective decision of average people is better than the decision made by experts; second, for democratic deliberation, it will look for a new paradigm through interdisciplinary studies of subjects which have different methodological premises.

The Center for Values and Ethics

Founded in October 2009, the Center for Values and Ethics seeks to suggest a regulative principle with empirical supports on which a new paradigm for peaceful coexistence can be realized. The rapidly changing global environment prompts demands for a new paradigm reflecting sociopolitical transformation. The Center devotes, on the one hand, to overcome the policy-oriented approach lacking a sincere consideration of its rooted values, and on the other hand, to construct value creative as well as value proactive cooperation between scholars and practitioners.

Survey Research on Social Status: Boosting the Middle Class

The income gap between the rich and poor has widened and the middle class has been on the decline in Korea. This collapse of the middle class and the extreme socioeconomic polarization will lead to serious economic, political, and social problems. While these concerns have been widespread, research on the economic, political and, social effects of the collapse of the middle class have been rare.

Korea-Australia Leadership Forum 2009

In March 2009, Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced a Joint Statement on Enhanced Global and Security Cooperation and settled to launch negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement. This advancement represents an expanding bilateral partnership between Korea and Australia.

InfraVision Forum

The EAI organizes the ��InfraVision Forum�� that offers to open discussions on current issues of national security with leading figures in order to establish a blueprint for the development of a future infrastructure in Korea and East Asia.

EAI ASI Scholar Program

The EAI has launched the Asia Security Initiative Scholars Program that invites outstanding scholars of security studies to write timely policy research reports on; 1) Alliance networks in Northeast Asia; 2) The future of North Korea; and 3) National identity rivalry and regional stability in East Asia.

National Identity Rivalry and Regional Stability in East Asia

Identity has now become a key variable in redefining security challenges and explaining both the sources of peace and of insecurity in the region.

Smart Talk Forum

The EAI organizes ��Smart Talks�� that offers an opportunity for leading scholars in Korea to meet and engage with prominent figures from around the world. The Forum will accelerate various international research collaborations and develop establishing a global academic network on East Asia.

Presidential Election02

EAI Global Academy

The East Asia Institute (EAI) is organizing its EAI Fellows Program with support from the Henry Luce Foundation of the United States and Chiang Kai-Shek Foundation of Taiwan. The topic is ��East Asia regional security, development and democratization��. We will invite the EAI Fellows, leading scholars in East Asia studies, to hold ��EAI Global Academy�� lectures for specially-selected students.

China-U.S. Relations

The EAI established the China-U.S. Relations Research Group to study how a rising China and transformation of the China-U.S. relationship will directly affect Korea��s economic interests and development strategies as the starting point to gain an understanding of the issues.

Globalization and National Strategy

Globalization has already established itself, so it would be difficult to go against it. Globalization has already reached the farthest shores of the global village, and it has not only changed the international order, but also states and the daily lives of individuals. Throughout the world, globalization is a the grand epochal change that is transforming national structures and governing methods.

EAI Internship Program

The East Asia Institute, founded in May 2002, dedicates itself to contributing to transform East Asia into a society of nations based on liberal democracy, market economy, open society, and peace.

National Security and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) 2005

The importance of FDI is gathering great attention due to its huge impact on the domestic economy of South Korea. According to the Ministry of Industry and Energy, the volume of FDI has reached 12.7 billion dollars by last 2004. FDI transferred tangible and intangible assets from foreign to domestic economy and foreigners can directly operate the business.

Economist Panel Studies

The economy has been an important topic for quite some time. Even looking at Korea��s current economic situation, optimists and pessimists have continued to engage in heated debates by emphasizing different kinds of economic evidence. Questions about the economy have been posed in all quarters.

WPO 2007 Global Perceptions

EAI and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) have conducted international public opinion surveys for 7 countries (Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, the U.S. and South Korea) regarding core six global issues in 2006.

EAI Fellows Program

The ��Fellows Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia�� was established in 2005 by EAI, as an international exchange program for scholars with expertise in peace, governance, and development in East Asia.

The Presidency in Korea

The research aim is to produce a comprehensive set of policy recommendations for presidential reforms. The research itself is based on the broad consent on the need to restructure presidential roles and power resources in order to deliver some fundamental modification to the pre-existing governance system

Political Reform and the National Assembly

To activate policy competition in Korean party politics, establish a blue print for successful institutional reform of election, party and the National Assembly, is an essential step to be taken. Such an assessment on the reality of Korean politics comprises the purpose of our research project.

The Logic of Civil Society

In the process of democratization, engaging the quality and the strength of civil society is a fundamental precondition for fulfilling a new and restored democratic political system. Despite a consensus on the desirability of "civil society," there is still much disagreement on how institutional capacity of civil society is to be measured and evolves over time and the mechanism by which it affects the quality of democracy (Kubik, Ekiert, and Wittenberg' Study Proposal, 2004).

Understanding Economic Reform: Korean Cases

Once famous for its rapid economic growth often called "the East Asian miracle," Korean economy has recently been subjected to the shame of being one of the crisis-struck economies of Asia. As of late 2002 the South Korean economy was standing out amongst other Asian and non-Asian economies and performing very well.

Public Trust and Influence of Power Organizations

Traditionally, the government was a determinant in decision making and implemeting the decisions in a country. Now, in almost all nations, the influence and participation of civil society organizations such as, non-profit or civic groups, workers and corporations is growing exponentially.

Park Chung Hee Era: Research on Korean Politics

Numerous domestic and international scholars have addressed the economic growth, financial crisis and analysis of the past, present and possible future trajectory of Korean politics. However, the 1997 ��Asian financial crisis�� has forced intellectuals to reevaluate the ��developmental state�� and review theoretical approaches to a case study of East Asia.

Korea-Australia Leadership Forum 2008

The Korean Peninsula is a vital component of Australia��s economic and political security interests in Northeast Asia, just as Australia is one of South Korea��s most important trade partners.

Northeast Asian Security Dialogue between China and Korea

The Northeast Asian Security Dialogue between China and Korea is established jointly by the Center for International Security Studies (CISS) based in Beijing and the East Asia Institute (EAI) based in Seoul. This international forum is being held in Beijing and Seoul alternatively from 2008.

Korea-U.S. Relations

Rising anti-Americanism in the winter of 2002 despite the increasing security threats from North Korea, has led some to call the situation a crisis in the ROK-US alliance. Since the inauguration of the Roh Moo-hyun government, there have been signs of tension and fissure between the Roh Moo-hyun government and the Bush administration.

2006 Local Election Panel Studies

Panel survey method is appealing for studying elections because one of the interesting topics of election study is individual change in voting behavior over time. They are at the core of studying elections.

2007 Presidential Election Panel Studies

The program is the first national panel studies for Presidential election in Korea. EAI��SBS��Joongang Ilbo��Hankook Research participate in the research consortium. The first wave survey for the "2007 Presidential Election Panel" was conducted from April 25th to 28th 2007.

2008 General Election Panel Studies

ROK-US Dialogue 21

Nowadays, issues on ROK-U.S. relations such as the Korean troops dispatch to Iraq and the USFK relocation are growing more and more salient. Under such circumstances, people start to feel apprehensive about the U.S.-ROK cooperation.

BBC GIM 2004-2005

BBC GIM 2005-2006

New Pax Americana

The world is under twin forces of transformation: globalization and democratization. Some see the two as irreversible homogenizing trends in alliance with U.S. power and values, dramatically strengthening ��Pax Americana.�� Others find powerful counterforces under gestation.

BBC GIM 2006-2007

BBC GIM 2008

Power and Security in Northeast Asia

East Asia is experiencing new pressures for transformation from three forces: globalization, democratization and regionalization. Yet it is also burdened with unresolved issues left over from its past. The world's last two remaining divided nations need to find peaceful ways to create mutual understanding and cooperation.

WPO 2008-1: New Global Threats

WorldPublicOpinion.org is an international collaborative project which aims to give voice to public opinion around the world on international issues. As the world becomes increasingly integrated, problems have become increasingly global, pointing to a greater need for understanding between nations and for elucidating global norms.

1st Alliance Transformation 2008

As part of the efforts to address the issues of alliance transformation and build the self-sustainable robust alliance with the U.S., EAI��s Center for Alliance Transformation seeks to hold a series of high-powered alliance conferences in Seoul with the goal of getting Korea��s newly elected president and his government team interested in following up on the agreement of U.S. military troop relocation with concrete support measures.

2nd Alliance Transformation 2008

As part of the efforts to address the issues of alliance transformation and build the self-sustainable robust alliance with the U.S., EAI��s Center for Alliance Transformation seeks to hold a series of high-powered alliance conferences in Seoul with the goal of getting Korea and the U.S. newly elected president and his government team interested in following up on the agreement of U.S. military troop relocation with concrete support measures.

WPO 2008-2: Global issues

WorldPublicOpinion.org is a project that seeks to increase understanding of public opinion in specific nations around the world as well as to elucidate the globla patterns of world public opinion.

System Restructuring in East Asia

The dependent variable in this study is corporate restructuring but clearly there are many other policies that critically affect corporate restructuring outcomes. In the three countries at the center of this study, China, Japan, and Korea, corporate restructuring really means "system restructuring" because the kinds of changes required are ones that can not be done on the margins but require a fundamental realignment of key institutions in the political economy.

Korean-American Alliance: A Vision and a Roadmap

Using the milestone of the 60th anniversary of the Korea-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty in 2013 to affirm the Korea-U.S. relationship, a roadmap for the Korea-U.S. alliance was drawn to make the military alliance relevant for the 21st century.

MacArthur Asia Security Initiative

The East Asia Institute: A MacArthur Asia Security Initiative Core Institution

Global Views 2004: Living Under U.S. Leadership

The EAI collaborates with foreign research institutes to conduct a multi-country public survey. In 2004, it collaborated with the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations(CCFR) based in Chicago, the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE) and the Mexican Council of Foreign Relations (COMEXI), both based in Mexico City, to analyze public attitudes on the issues of international order, bilateral relations with the United States, and current foreign affairs and national security issues in each of the three countries.

Global Views 2006: The Rise of China and India

In 2004, EAI teamed up with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) to conduct an international public opinion survey. This survey has been conducted each year since joining of Joongang Ilbo this year as a co-sponsoring organization.

Global Views 2008: Soft Power in East Asia

The East Asia Institute (EAI) in Seoul and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) based in Chicago believe that East Asia will become the source of global political and economic leadership in the twenty-first century. The two institutions also posit that the "Soft Power" will become an important source of international leadership.

Global Views 2008: Soft Power in East Asia

EAI GlobalNet 21

It is essential for Korea to cope with changes in the 21st century world order with both prudence and speed, accompanied by high-level strategies. Ever since Korea achieved full-fledged democracy, the question of Korean diplomacy has become more popularized.

Future of North Korea Panel

In March 2008, EAI established The Future of North Korea Panel to conduct research and generate ideas on six key areas in North Korea (information technology, human rights, domestic affairs, international affairs, economics and the military).

Japan Research Panel

Japan wishes to become the so called "normal state", a state expanding military and political influence in line with its economic power since the end of the Cold War. Japan's foreign policy stance of reinforcing its influence in East Asia against China is expected to continue for a considerable time with the US-Japan alliance at the center.

China Research Panel

Since the beginning of the open door policy, China has and is accomplishing its continuous rapid growth for the past several years. Emerging as a major economic power, China is also heading to become the biggest contributor to peace and security in East Asia and the Korean Peninsula.

National Security Panel

The National Security Panel analyzes current and emerging foreign affairs and national security issues in the era of transformation throughout the world. It also releases policy-relevant reports which provide an analytic framework for explaining and predicting such issues.

2010 EPIK Young Leaders Award Recipients

The EPIK Young Leaders award is given in recognition and celebration of the accomplishments in thesis competition. This year, awards are made to Yoon Jin Lee, Mimi Ahn, Shin Woo Kang and YunSuk Chung for their invaluable contributions to the first EPIK Conference. We sincerely congratulate you again.

EAI Newsletter [September 2010]

[Future of North Korea Introduction] Path to advance North Korea 2032: Building a Comprehensive Networking Country

Over the past 15 years, North Korea has pursued its sun-goon or military-first politics through nuclear weapons development, sun-goon economy and establishment of National Defense Commission to build a gangseongdaeguk or strong and prosper country. However, sun-goon has failed to address the basic security, economic, and political challenges.

The 9th Smart Talk Forum with Dr. Muthiah Alagappa

The Asia Security Initiative Research Center at the East Asia Institute will host the 9th Smart Talk Forum on September 15, 2010. Dr. Muthiah Alagappa, Senior Fellow in the East-West Center will give a brief speech on ��Regionalism in the 21st Century Asia�� followed by discussions with invited panelists from South Korea.

JEAS, 'A' Ranking Journal in the field of Political Science

The Australian Research Council (ARC), a statutory authority within the Australian Government's Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (IISR) portfolio, recently presented the final ranked journal list of international academic journals. The Journal of East Asian Studies (JEAS) was categorized ��A�� ranking in the field of political science along with distinguished journals such as American Political Science Review and Survival.

China��s Evolving North Korea Policy: Implications for Seoul & Washington

The East Asia Institute (EAI) hosted Dr. John S. Park, senior research associate at the U.S. Institute of Peace��s Center for Conflict Analysis & Prevention, on August 6, 2010 for a Smart Talk on China��s evolving North Korea policy. He examined the implications of deepening Communist Party of China (CPC)-Workers�� Party of Korea (WPK) ties for Seoul and Washington.

The MacArthur Asia Security Initiative 2010 Annual Meeting Summary

On July 7-9, 2010, the second Annual Meeting of the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative (MASI) was held in Seoul, South Korea. The East Asia Institute, as one of three core institutions, organized this event to bring together the thirty-five institutions within the MASI network. While the first Annual Meeting held in May 2009 focused on launching the program, the 2010 meeting was more about coordinating activities, sharing ideas, and engaging in substantive discussions on the major issues shaping and affecting the region. With three different research clusters across the MASI network focused on divergent issues of both traditional and non-traditional security, two topics were selected that reflect the different research interests.

Application for the EAI Fellows Program 2010-2011

The East Asia Institute (EAI) based in Seoul, Korea, invites applications to its Fellows Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia. Funded by the Japan Foundation, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange of Taiwan, and YBM/KIS, an education institute of Korea, the Fellows Program targets East Asia specialists with cutting-edge expertise in political science, international relations, and sociology for an international exchange program with the goal of encouraging interdisciplinary research with a comparative perspective in the study of East Asia.

International Conference for the Dedication of the Pacific Rim Park on Jeju

On August 6, 2009, the East Asia Institute together with the University of California, San Diego held the International Conference for the Dedication of the Pacific Rim Park on Jeju.

MASI 2010 Annual Meeting: Closing Session

The East Asia Institute hosted the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative 2010 Annual Meeting at Westin Chosun Hotel, Seoul, South Korea, from July 7-9 2010. This was the second annual meeting held since the Inaugural MacArthur Grantees�� Meeting and Official Launch of the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative hosted by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore last year.

EAI Publications Newsletter [August 2010]

[Future of North Korea 5] Reform of North Korea��s Survival Strategy with the Emphasis on Human Rights Issue

This paper analyzes the significance of human rights issues in North Korea��s survival strategy and suggests a direction for North Korea to successfully design and promote its strategy under the international political arena where not only national prosperity and military power but also soft power such as knowledge, human rights, and environment issues.

[Future of North Korea 4] North Korea��s Economic Strategy under the Sun-Goon System and its Future Direction

This paper examines North Korea��s economic strategy under the Sun-Goon (military-first) system, shows the reasons for inevitable future failure of the present strategy, and discusses the measures for co-evolution of the Two Koreas and the international community.

[EAI Commentary No.11] On the Rocks: Korea and Japan Divided over the Dokdo Issue

No serious observer of postwar relations between South Korea and Japan doubts that there is a bilateral issue between the two nations that is more persistent and volatile than their feud over the sovereign status of the two minuscule islets of Dokdo. This commentary examines the history of disputes over Dokdo, and attempts to argue that the starting point for a solution lies in the pragmatic and prudent approach, not in assertive diplomacy based on nationalistic sentiments.

MASI 2010 Annual Meeting Transcript: Session II. Cluster 3

Colleagues, friends, good afternoon and welcome to our session on cluster discussion for the third cluster of the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative. Someone asked me today, ��What��s the name of our cluster?�� The categorization of our cluster is ��internal challenges.�� I think during the first call for grand scheme, the full title was ��internal challenges and cross country implications.��

MASI 2010 Annual Meeting Transcript: Session II. Cluster 2

What we did last year was introduce ourselves. Since we have a limit in budget and since we do not have a format for this meeting, let��s share what our research materials and plans are. We have new plans in EAI: making some progress in advancing our writing materials, but we need to expand our mother institutions.

MASI 2010 Annual Meeting Transcript: Session II. Cluster 1

Please take your seat. At this session we have a couple of subjects we need to just go through. First of all, I��d like to invite all cluster members research institutions to give us brief introduction of what your research project is and how it��s going on. Second, we also need to spend some time discussing the format of next year��s annual meeting of MacArthur Asia Security Initiative. Because next year, it��s my turn to host annual MacArthur��s Asia Security Initiative conference.

2010 EPIK Young Leaders Conference Essay Competiti

The East Asia Institute (EAI) invites undergraduate and graduate students to share their ideas on "Building a Community�� through an essay competition in the 2010 EPIK Young Leaders Conference.

[Future of North Korea 3] Structural Weakness of North Korea's Military-first Politics and Transformation of its Military Strategy

This paper examines the structural weakness of Sun-Goon(military-first) Politics as North Korea's military strategy and seeks to show a new strategy of transformation in North Korea's military affairs. It is a strategy that transforms North Korea's internal and external structures simultaneously. The North Korean problem can neither be solved by the changes in North Korea's external environment, nor by its own efforts for political and economic reform.

MASI 2010 Annual Meeting: Preliminary Session

EAI Newsletter [August 2010]

Homecoming for Interns 2010

On August 16, 2010, the EAI hosted its second Homecoming day for former and current interns. Professor Young-sun Ha (Seoul National University), Byung-Kook Kim (President of Korea Foundation), Sook-Jong Lee (President of EAI) and Professor Chae-Sung Chun (Chair, MacArthur Asia Security Initiative Research Center) attended the ceremony to give welcoming remarks and encourage the future leaders.

MASI 2010 Annual Meeting Transcript: Closing Session

Now we will start, the second day, fourth session, it��s a wrap-up and conclusion, so we have three speakers including me. We��ll start now and try to finish by 11:30. And then we will have lunch from twelve with General Sharp of the USFK. So this is a wrap-up session, but I don��t think three speakers will wrap-up all the wonderful discussions we had yesterday. So I guess the speakers will give some thoughts on two subjects that we dealt with yesterday.

MASI 2010 Annual Meeting Transcript: Session I. Group 2

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am Zhu Feng from the Center for International and Strategic Studies of Peking University. It��s my great honor to be the mediator of this session, Group 2��s morning session. First of all, let me extend a great gratitude to President Lee, for her excellent organization of Seoul MacArthur Asian Security Initiative Annual Conference 2010.

MASI 2010 Annual Meeting Transcript: Session I. Group 1

Good Afternoon. I��m Young-Sun Ha of Seoul National University and also the senior advisor to the EAI. Since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, we have so far discussed quite a lot on the post-crisis world and regional order. But, it seems that our discussions have not yet achieved the detailed, clear picture of the post-crisis world and regional order, in particular on the issues such as the relative decline of the United States, and also what will be the shape after the rise of China in the upcoming several decades, in addition to that what kind of global and regional governance to cope with the coming and new post-crisis world order.

MASI 2010 Annual Meeting Transcript: Session III. Group 1

Good Afternoon. Could I invite those of you standing up there to kindly take your seats? We��re about to commence this session which is basically a continuation of I think the discussion we had this morning. But when we look at post-crisis global and regional order we go beyond just the economic issues, the economic crisis that has just recently affected many parts of the world and now look at other issues.

The 8th Smart Talk Forum with Dr. John S. Park

The Asia Security Initiative Research Center at the East Asia Institute will host the 8th Smart Talk Forum on August 6, 2010. Dr. John S. Park, Research Associate in the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) will give a brief speech on ��China's Evolving North Korea Policy: Implications for Seoul and Washington�� followed by discussions with invited panelists from South Korea.

MASI 2010 Annual Meeting Transcript: Session III. Group 2

Can we get started? We��re missing a couple of people, but we��re five minutes into the session time, allocated session. So, let me start. If I may, I would like to say at the onset, I tend to run these things rather informallyso, please feel informal yourself. And so, it��s about time we interact.

[Future of North Korea 2] North Korea's Military-first Diplomacy and its Future Alternative

This paper analyzes the background and development of the Sun-Goon (military-first) diplomacy that is focused on guaranteeing the survival of North Korea��s socialist regime and preparing the diplomatic environment for the establishment of a strong and prosperous state in the future.

[Future of North Korea 1] From the Fortress State to the Amphibious State: Some Thoughts on North Korea's Gradual Transformation

This article is an attempt to find a way to transform North Korea into an advanced country. North Korea has long suffered from its rigidity, backwardness, and isolation. It is high time for total changes in the North Korean system. In the future, Pyongyang needs to escape its identity of a fortress state and become an amphibious state.

MASI 2010 Annual Meeting Transcript: Preliminary session

This is a long title, so we just call it MASI. Following the successful inaugural meeting in Singapore, Asia, this year��s meeting also draws active participation with forty-one scholars and researchers, from thirty-five institutions in attendance. We represent nine countries, if I call them in descending order of the number of the participants; they are the United States, South Korea, China, India, Australia, Singapore, Japan, Bangladesh, and Taiwan.

[The Center for Values and Ethics Roundtable] Democratic Accountability vs. Diplomatic Commitments: Reflections on the Okinawa Military Base Dispute

The short-lived Hatoyama administration delineated possible tensions between democratic accountability and diplomatic commitments. The Japanese government had committed to relocating the U.S. Marine Corps Airbase from densely populated Futenma to less developed Henoko on the island of Okinawa.

Speech Transcript: General Walter L. Sharp

The transcript of General Walter L. Sharp��s speech at the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative 2010 Annual Meeting is as follows. Professor Lee; Professor Chun; East Asia Institute and MacArthur Security Initiative Fellows; Distinguished Guests; It is definitely an honor to address the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative and the very distinguished audience here today.

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[EAI Commentary No.10] The Aftermath of the Cheonan Diplomacy at the UN: from a ��Post-Cheonan�� toward a ��Post-Kim Jong-il�� Strategy

On July 9, 2010, the UN Security Council Presidential Statement on the Cheonan incident was adopted. As expected, a carefully-worded statement was drafted that allowed for different interpretations of the text. Subsequently, there was a second round of disputes over the interpretation of the statement with the ROK-U.S. alliance on the one hand and Beijing and Pyongyang on the other, as well as among different domestic political powers within South Korea.<

EAI & U.S.-Korea Institute, SAIS Workshop

The EAI together with U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS, the Johns Hopkins University held a workshop with the title ��North Korea: Looking at Research Priorities for the Future�� on July 15-16, 2010. The aim of the workshop was to analyze the current political and economical situation in North Korea as well as external developments, including inter-Korean relations, DPRK-China relations, and DPRK-U.S. relations.

The 11th InfraVision Forum

The East Asia Institute hosted the 11th InfraVision Forum on July 8, 2010. Secretary General of the Presidentail Committee for the G20 Summit, Changyong Rhee gave a brief speech on ��the Main Issues and Agenda of Seoul G20 Summit�� followed by discussions with invited panelists from South Korea.

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The Comfort Women Case Reconsidered: Making Citizens Responsible for Historical Injustices

The year 2010 marks the eighteenth anniversary of the first Wednesday Demonstration in Seoul. Over nine hundred times, former ��comfort women�� and other Korean citizens have assembled in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to demand a sincere and official apology from the Japanese government.

Empire and Social Movements

With the decline of citizenship and the collapse of democracy in the United States, the importance of social movements becomes very profound. However, the difficulty has always been in the transformation of social movements into organized and sustained political action. In this way Professor Carl Boggs (National University in Los Angeles) presented the major problems facing social movements in the United States.

What��s Law Got to Do With It? Competition among Legal, Political, and Social Norms in the Generation and Resolution of Rural Land Disputes

Does formal law matter in determining who controls land rights? Property rights in land are an increasingly valuable asset in rural China. In asserting and defending their claims to land, rural residents, in principle, have recourse to a new body of ��rights-protective�� legislation and a rapidly developing system of courts (Fu 2009).

The Washington Nuclear Summit and Challenges on the Road to 2012 Summit in Korea

The year 2010 has witnessed rapid progress in galvanizing international support for preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism. This is the culmination of the vision set out by President Barack Obama in his Prague speech on April 5, 2009, for a world without nuclear weapons, a vision that is now coming to fruition. A year after the speech, on April 6, 2010, the United States Department of Defense released its Nuclear Posture Review, which clearly defines a decreased role for nuclear weapons in U.S. strategy.

From ��Primordial�� to ��Pragmatic�� Identity: A Search for Regional Identity in East Asia

In 2009, two interesting proposals for community building in East Asia were put forward: Kevin Rudd, then serving as Australia��s prime minister, proposed the creation of an Asia Pacific Community (APC) and then-Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama proposed an East Asian Community (EAC).

U.S. general sees risks of further N. Korean provocations

The U.S. military chief in South Korea said Friday he was concerned about further North Korean provocations over the next several years and urged regional powers to put pressure on the North to stop such future threats.

U.S. expects more N.K. provocations

The top U.S. military commander here said on Friday that North Korean provocations will increase in the coming years, and stressed the need for the international community to work in close cooperation with South Korea for regional stability and security.

US Forces on Korean Peninsula Reject China's Criticism of Maritime Exercises with South Korea

The leader of U.S. forces on the Korean Peninsula rejects China's criticism of maritime exercises planned with South Korea. But the top American general in South Korea asks Beijing to work more closely with Washington and Seoul to deter the North Korean threat.

EAI Publications Newsletter [July 2010] : II

EAI Newsletter [July 2010]

The EAI Press Briefing on the Cheonan Incident

On June 22, 2010 the East Asia Institute hosted a press briefing on the recent Cheonan incident. The conference comprised of a presentation by Professor Sukhee Han (Yonsei University), which was also released as an EAI Commentary ��China's Dilemma regarding the Cheonan Incident and the Future of ROK-China Relations.��

Susan Whiting Global Academy

EAI held its second Global Academy of 2010, inviting Susan Whiting from University of Washington. On this day, Whiting made a presentation on the topic of ��The Competition among Legal, Political, and Social Norms in the Resolution of Rural Land Disputes in Chinese and Comparative Context.��

The Expert Seminar with Susan Whiting

EAI held its second expert seminar of 2010, inviting Susan Whiting from University of Washington. On this day, Whiting made a presentation on the topic of ��The Competition among Legal, Political, and Social Norms in the Resolution of Rural Land Disputes in Chinese and Comparative Context.��

[EAI Commentary No.9] China's Dilemma regarding the Cheonan Incident and the Future of ROK-China Relations

On May 20, 2010, the Joint Civilian-Military Investigation Group, which included twenty-four foreign experts from the United States, Britain, Australia, and Sweden announced its results on the Cheonan incident. The South Korean government presented the group��s conclusion that the Cheonan sank due to an attack by a North Korean torpedo.

EAI Publications Newsletter [July 2010]

Coping with the North Korean Survival Game: The Cheonan Incident and Its Aftermath

While on a routine patrol along the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a South Korean Navy corvette, Cheonan was hit by an external explosion and rapidly sunk at 9:22pm on March 26, 2010. Of the one hundred and four South Korean crew members on board, forty six were found dead or remain missing (Cha 2010).

2006 Fellows Schedule

2007 Fellows Schedule

2008 Fellows Schedule

2009 Fellows Schedule

[The Center for Values and Ethics Roundtable] Contemporary Chinese System: Its Origin and Future

China is not converging with the West and there is a distinct Chinese system. Socially, the network of communities and work units is organically connected and overlapping with the vertical and horizontal networks of bureaucracy. This is in sharp contrast to the West, where independent and self-organized civil societies contend for resources through partisan politics.

Northeast Asia Security Dialogue (NASD) Guidelines for Student Applicants

Along with Center for International and Strategic Studies (CISS) of Peking University, the East Asia Institute (EAI) will hold its third round of the Northeast Asia Security Dialogue (NASD) in November 2010. Planned to be conducted in Beijing, the forum will consist of the Students Forum and the Experts Panel, to be held on November 21 and 22, 2010, respectively.

Compensation for Historic Injustice

What does it mean to say that a group of people is entitled to compensation as a result of a given act of injustice? In simple terms, it must be maintained that the group in question is still suffering in some sense from the act of injustice in question. The whole point of compensation is to provide counter-balancing benefits to offset losses. What is required here is some notion of a counterfactual.

EAI Newsletter [June 2010] : II

EAI Newsletter [May 2010] : II

[EAI Commentary No.8] The U.S. ��Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) 2010�� and the Nuclear Security Summit

When President Barack Obama set out his new initiative toward a ��world without nuclear weapons�� in his Prague speech on April 5, 2009, there was a great deal of speculation about what his official nuclear policy would be. A year later, questions were answered when the Obama administration finally released its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) on April 6, 2010.

The Transformation of Chinese Socialism

Fighting for Foreigners: Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy

Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence Across the Taiwan Strait and Beyond

Election Campaigning in East and Southeast Asia

Asia��s New Multilateralism: Cooperation, Competition, and the Search for Community

Do Asian Values Exist? Empirical Tests of the Four Dimensions of Asian Values

Asian values, authority, authoritarianism, communalism, congruence theory, culture, democracy, familism, multilevel analysis, postmaterialism, work ethic

Political Connections and Firm Performance: The Case of Hong Kong

Hong Kong politics, Hong Kong economy, authoritarian politics, politically connected firms, crony capitalism

The Decline of Particularism in Japanese Politics

Japan, Liberal Democratic Party, budget, particularism, infrastructure, public works, electoral reform

Soft Balancing, Hedging, and Institutional Darwinism: The Economic-Security Nexus and East Asian Regionalism

regionalism, East Asia, ASEAN+3, Chiang Mai Initiative, Six-Party Talks, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, economics, security, multilateralism

How Can an Inter-Korean Summit Contribute to the Denuclearization of North Korea?

Only a few months ago, a third inter-Korean summit and the resumption of the Six-Party Talks both seemed likely. With contacts for an inter-Korean summit under way since last year and the Chinese proposals for the Six-Party Talks having been warmly accepted by the United States and North Korea, the prospects were positive.

Northeast Asian Approaches to North Korea��s Nuclearization

Economic sanctions have often been considered the best alternative to the use of military force. However, academic and policy debates regarding the effectiveness of sanctions on Iraq, Iran, Libya and the DPRK have not been settled. There are significant discrepancies in the literature that addresses sanctions more generally, beyond the realm of nuclear proliferation.

[EAI Commentary No.7] Kim Jong-il��s Visit to China and Its Implications

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-il em-barked on a secretive trip to China on May 3, 2010. The five day visit was his first to China in four years and his fifth so far. Kim��s recent visit to China does not seem to be that much different from previous summit meetings be-tween North Korea and China.

EAI Newsletter [June 2010]

The EAI Press Briefing on the Cheonan Incident

The East Asia Institute (EAI) held the EAI Press Briefing on the Cheonan Incident at Best Western Premier Hotel Kuk Do, Seoul, on June 22, 2010, 2-4pm. This press briefing was organized as part of the EAI's efforts to enhance the public understanding of this tragic incident and develop policy recommendations for policymakers at the national and international levels.

The 1st Expert Seminar with Etel Solingen

The EAI held its first expert seminar, inviting Etel Solingen from the University of California Irvine. Etel Solingen made a presentation on the topic of ��Positive and Negative Inducements in Non-proliferation: Applications to North Korea�� There was a heated debate with scholars who participated in the seminar.

Etel Solingen Global Academy

The EAI held its first 2010 Global Academy on Friday, June 11. Professor Etel Solingen from University of California Irvine gave a lecture to 20 selected students from various universities in Korea and around the world. The Academy was moderated by Professor Dong Sun Lee from Korea University The topic was ��International Relations Theory and The Causes of Nuclear Proliferation��.

President's party takes hits in South Korean midterm elections

SEOUL -- North Korea's apparent torpedoing of a South Korean warship has weakened the political coattails of the South's pro-American president, according to the results of Wednesday's midterm elections.

Retooling the brainpower factory

South Korea��s progress over the last half century has been remarkable - and it would not have happened without the outstanding performance of its school system. The country consistently wins high marks for educational achievement in international benchmarking exercises.

Ship Sinking Aids Ruling Party in S. Korean Vote

BUCHEON, South Korea — The sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan, apparently by a North Korean torpedo, has provoked an international crisis that has embroiled big powers like the United States and China. But here in South Korea, it has had another effect: buoying the country��s once embattled conservative, pro-American president, Lee Myung-bak.

'Democratic Inconsistency' in the North Korean Nuclear Crisis

On August 5, 1993, U.S. assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs Robert Gallucci presented a tempting proposal to North Korea—a ��presidential guarantee�� to provide light water reactors to replace the Yongbyon nuclear facility. Officially, the North Korean delegation complained that the presidential letter was ��only a promise.��

2010 EAI Main News

2010 EAI Main News is available.

[EAI Commentary No.6] Lessons from the Cheonan Incident and South Korea��s Response

Since the tragic sinking of the ROK Navy corvette, the Cheonan, on March 26 2010, there has been an unprecedented level of unconfirmed suspicion, speculation, and criticism over the incident. Not only has this focused on the cause of the sinking but also on the Lee Myung-bak administration��s handling of the incident and its response in the immediate aftermath.

The 7th Smart Talk Forum with Dr. Igor Khripunov

The Asia Security Initiative Research Center at the East Asia Institute will host the 7th Smart Talk Forum on June 1, 2010. Dr. Igor Khripunov, director of the Center for International Trade and Security, will give a brief speech on ��the Washington Nuclear Summit and Challenges on the Road to the Korean Summit in 2012�� followed by discussions with invited panelists from South Korea.

[The Center for Values and Ethics Roundtable] Empire and Social movements

On May 24, 2010, The Center for Values and Ethics (CVE) will be hosting the CVE Roundtable, inviting Professor Carl E. Boggs from National University of Los Angeles. Professor Carl Boggs will deliver a presentation on the topic of ��Empire and Social movements��.

EAI Newsletter [May 2010]

Understanding Security Relations on the Korean Peninsula: South Korea��s Strategic Perceptions on the Region and Beyond

On April 23, 2010, representatives from the Army Directed Studies Office (ADSO) of the United States Department of Defense visited the East Asia Institute (EAI) for an informal interview on South Korea��s strategic view toward the region. This brief interview was a great opportunity to bring together South Korean experts and American military officers for a greater understanding of security relations on the Korean Peninsula and the role South Korea plays in the East Asian region.

Summitry and the Six-Party Talks: U.S. Policy toward North Korea

The current deadlock in the Six-Party Talks makes the resolution of the North Korean nuclear crisis a more difficult task. While resuming the Six-Party Talks is a key objective for the participants, restarting U.S. dialogue with North Korea remains the first step. In its first year in office, the Obama administration has faced numerous provocations from Pyongyang as it has struggled to assert a policy toward North Korea.

EAI �� ADSO Meeting

On April 23, 2010, the East Asia Institute (EAI) held a brief meeting with representatives from the Army Directed Studies Office (ADSO) of the United States Department of Defense. Major topics covered in the meeting include current security issues facing the Korean Peninsula and South Korea��s strategic views toward the region and the United States.

Homecoming for Interns 2009

On the 17th of August, 2009, the EAI hosted its fist intern ��Homecoming�� ceremony where former and current interns attended. Sook-Jong Lee (President of EAI), Professor Byung-Kook Kim (President Emeritus of EAI), Professor Jae-sung Chun (Chair, MacArthur Asia Security Initiative Research Center) and Professor Young-sun Ha (Seoul National University) all attended the homecoming ceremony to give presentation speeches. In total, 42 interns attended the ceremony and have had a unique opportunity for networking with each other.

Economy President?: Exploring Determinants of Presidential Approval of Myung-bak Lee

Presidential approval indicates public evaluation of the president��s job performance and reflects public satisfaction level on the current administration. Therefore, high presidential approval is a driving force for good governance. The primary purpose of this paper is to explore determinants of Myung-bak Lee��s presidential approval by applying a political-economic model that includes economic and non-economic variables.

EAI Newsletter [April 2010]

Markets, Bribery, and Regime Stability in North Korea

This paper uses data from surveys of North Korean refugees to investigate the relationships between markets, bribery, and regime stability in North Korea. More specifically, it tests four hypotheses about the characteristics, trend and extent of North Korean bribery and the extent as well as trend of bribery. We find that bribery in North Korea is characterized as ��bad�� corruption because, unlike other socialist countries, it is tied mostly to informal markets rather than to the formal sector, and fails to increase the supply of goods and services in any substantial way.

Economic Crime and Punishment in North Korea

The penal system has played a central role in the North Korean government��s response to the country��s profound economic and social changes. As the informal market economy has expanded, so have the scope of economic crimes. Two refugee surveys—one conducted in China, one in South Korea—document that the regime disproportionately targets politically suspect groups, particularly those involved in market-oriented economic activities.

2010 EAI Global Academy

The East Asia Institute (EAI) will hold its fifth annual EAI Global Academy with support from Henry Luce Foundation of the United States and Chiang Kai-Shek Foundation of Taiwan. This year, the 2010 EAI Global Academy will feature the following EAI Fellows: Barbara Booth Stallings, Etel Liliana Solingen, Susan Hayes Whiting, and Mary Alice Haddad.

2010 EPIK Young Leaders Conference

The EAI played host for the 2010 EPIK Young Leaders Conference on August 17, 2010. Our goal in this conference was to provide a platform for talented students from home and abroad, who have different majors and backgrounds to develop not only their comprehensive knowledge but also global mind and community spirit. During the four presentation sessions, the six presenters shared their ideas on various topics such as international politics, security, economics, and business management as well as to ponder their roles in this ever changing global community.

MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Initiative 2010 Annual Meeting

A Bridge Too Far: Comparing Postwar German-Polish and Sino-Japanese Reconciliation

Why do some former enemy countries establish durable amity while others remain mired in animosity? From this question, Professor Yinan He started her theoretical study on post-conflict interstate reconciliation and the outcome of her study was published as The Search for Reconciliation: Sino-Japanese and German-Polish Relations since World War II (2009).

Current Issues in South Korea-Japan Relations

On February 12, 2010, the East Asia Institute (EAI) hosted Toshinori Shigeie, Ambassador of Japan to South Korea, for a private discussion on current issues in the bilateral relations between South Korea and Japan. This meeting brought together prominent South Korean experts to discuss an array of issues focusing on bilateral cooperation. Ambassador Shigeie expressed his positive views toward this bilateral relationship and its future prospects.

EAI Newsletter [March 2010]

American Economic Policy Toward Asia

The United States and East Asia have a common stake in each other��s prosperity. There is an undeniably strong link, interaction, and dependency between the two. However, there is no clearly defined regional economic policy on East Asia either from the United States or among Asian states themselves. The paradox is that even though there is a growing Asian identity, the economic issues between America and East Asia are largely part of wider bilateral or global approaches.

[The Center for Values and Ethics Roundtable] A Bridge Too Far?

Why have some former enemy countries established durable peace while others remain mired in animosity? When and how does historical memory matter in post-conflict interstate relations? Focusing on two case studies, Yinan He argues that the key to interstate reconciliation is the harmonization of national memories. Conversely, memory divergence resulting from national mythmaking harms long-term prospects for reconciliation.

2010 International Workshop

The EAI Center for Values and Ethics, together with ARI Center for East Asian Thoughts, conducts the project, ��Historical Reconciliation and Inherited Responsibility.�� The main goals of this project are to find the rationale of the inherited responsibility about the historic wrongdoings done by the previous generations, to promote the communicability of Comfort Women Cases and their problems relevant to the inherited responsibility in global academia, and to examine a best possible way of historical reconciliation and peaceful coexistence through civic collaboration in East Asian countries.

Talk with Prof. Jorge I. Domínguez (Harvard University)

On March 14, 2010, Professor Jorge I. Domínguez visited the East Asia Institute (EAI) to have a brief talk with Sook-Jong Lee, President of EAI.

Ties That Bind? Assessing the Impact of Economic Interdependence on East Asian Alliances

This article investigates how commercial ties affect the cohesiveness of U.S. alliances with East Asian nations. While the conventional wisdom views their effects as positive, we argue that economic interdependence does not markedly reinforce East Asian alliances because all those alignments have an asymmetrical structure. To evaluate these competing arguments, we examine the impact of bilateral trade on the U.S. alliances with Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, as well as South Korea, over the past quarter-century.

EAI Newsletter [February 2010]

[NSP Report 41] Changes and Prospects for Russia��s 21 Century Alliance/Partnership Policy

To be a global leader once again in a rapidly changing international environment, Russia has strived to establish a complex multi-level alliance/partnership network. This paper aims to examine how Russia��s alliance/partnership strategy has developed and what can be expected. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there has been three major phases in Russia��s security strategy. First, President Yeltsin tried to preserve Moscow��s dwindling influence against the chaos due to the regime transformation.

The 6th Smart Talk Forum with L.Gordon Flake

The 6th Smart Talk Forum was hosted by the East Asia Institute (EAI) on February 23, 2010. Mr. L. Gordon Flake(Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation) gave a brief speech on ��Summitry and the Six Party Talks: U.S. Policy toward North Korea�� followed by discussions with invited panelists from South Korea.

East Asian Regionalism

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State

Building Party Systems in Developing Democracies

China��s Legal System: New Developments, New Challenges

Japan Since 1980

North Korea's Quest for Nuclear Weapons: New Historical Evidence

North Korea, nuclear technology, weapons, USSR, Eastern Europe, China, diplomacy

Transition from Single-Party Dominance? New Data from Malaysia

single-party dominance, competitive authoritarianism, political legitimacy, elections, ethnicity, democratic transition, Malaysia

The Muslim South in the Context of the Thai Nation

cultural assimilation, insurgency, Malay identity, social cleavages, southern Thailand, unconventional participation

Strategies, Institutions, and Outcomes Under SNTV in Taiwan, 1992–2004

SNTV, electoral system, election districts, election outcomes, candidates, nomination errors, overnominations, undernominations, competition, Legislative Yuan

The Electoral Origin of Japan's Nationalistic Leadership: Primaries in the LDP Presidential Election and the ��Pull Effect��

Japan, nationalism, leadership, foreign policy, Koizumi Junichiro, LDP presidential election, divisive primary hypothesis

2010 EAI Social Sciences Lecture Series

The EAI has strived to cultivate talented youth to lead a future Korea with comprehensive and integrated knowledge. As part of that effort, the EAI has organized the 2010 Social Sciences Lecture series. The first session will be led by Professor Young-Sun Ha from the Department of International Relations, Seoul National University from March 3 to 29, on the topic of ��Youth in History: From Enlightenment Era to the Age of Complexity.��

The 10th InfraVision Forum

The East Asia Institute hosted the 10th InfraVision Forum on February 12, 2010. Ambassador Toshinori Shigeie gave a brief speech on current issues in Japan-Korea relations followed by discussions with invited panelists from South Korea.

Collective Violence in Indonesia

Since the end of Suharto's so-called New Order (1966-1998) in Indonesia and the eruption of vicious group violence, a number of questions have engaged the minds of scholars and other observers. How widespread is the group violence? What forms—ethnic, religious, economic—has it primarily taken? Have the clashes of the post-Suharto years been significantly more widespread, or worse, than those of the late New Order?

[NSP Report 40] The Transformation of the U.S.-Europe Alliance in the 21st Century

The following paper reviews recent changes in the U.S.-Europe relationship. The paper consists of two parts. The first part examines reasons for the persistence of NATO which was widely expected to cease to exist with the end of the Cold War but continued to work as a multi-function, multi-purpose alliance. Of course, a question still remains as to what kind of role NATO can and should play in the absence of "common enemy."

[NSP Report 39] The Obama Administration��s Strategy for East Asia and the Korean Peninsula

Given the ongoing economic crisis, Obama��s top priority would focus on domestic issues such as health care, cap and trade, and energy. Yet, Obama still faces serious foreign policy challenges including war in Afghanistan and Iraq, global war on terror, rise of China, climate change and so forth. East Asia will be a second priority for Obama administration��s foreign policy agenda with its focus on war efforts in Afghanistan and broader Middle East area. To support its war efforts, Obama wishes to see stability in East Asia.

[NSP Report 38] The U.S. Security Implementation Strategy

This paper aims to illuminate key characteristics of the Obama administration��s emerging security strategy. It argues that the new administration will likely adopt a strategy of restraint and balance. Use of force, albeit not excluded in principle, will be a last resort, while the promotion of democratic governance and value-based alliance will be sought with greater caution.

[NSP Report 37] The U.S. Alliance System in the 21st Century: Historical Overview

The primary purpose of this paper is to examine an alliance policy of the United States under the Obama administration and its future prospects in the 21st century with a historical overview of how U.S. foreign policy and alliance strategy have changed. The historical assessment of continuity and change in U.S. foreign policy, particularly its alliance strategy, provides a window to analyze U.S. diplomacy with a focus on alliance policy in the long term.

[NSP Report 36] The Obama Administration��s Foreign Policy Agenda

From its inception, the Obama administration has confronted a new security environment of the 21st century. Most strikingly, the United States is witnessing its relative decline of power, whereas newly emerging states, such as China and India, are rapidly rising in the international community.

[NSP Report 35] The World View of the Middle East and Alliance

The main purpose of this paper is to examine a changing political environment of the Middle East with a historical overview of alliance networks in the Middle East since the Cold War. As the concept of Middle Eastern alliances go beyond traditional military concerns and economic interests to include shared cultural, racial, and religious identity as reflected in the doctrine of oneness, the four different layers of identity – tribal identity (assabiyyah), national identity (wataniyyah), Arab nationalism (qawmiyyah), and religious/Islamic identity (ummah) – have been critical determining the Middle Eastern alliance system throughout history.

[NSP Report 34] Japan��s Alliance Strategy in the 21st Century: Power Transfer, Transformation, and Rebalancing

This paper explores how Japan has rebalanced its alliance with the United States during the past decade. It began with the emerging strategic environment of East Asia that highlights China's rise. Then, it introduces three strategic views that emerged in the policy circle as an alternative to the existing foreign policy posture: alliance, autonomy, and balance. Ultimately this paper will demonstrate that neither view is appropriate in dealing with the new challenges.

[NSP Report 33] The History of Alliance Networks

An alliance system has evolved throughout history among nation-states that strive to secure their survival in an anarchic, decentralized, and self-help international system. Initially formed to maintain balance of power among contending states in the system, the concept of alliance was enlarged to reflect collective security in the Concert of Europe in the 19th century and ultimately to address non-military aspects, such as the development of democracy and ideological conflict, along with traditional security concerns like the emergence of nuclear weapons in the 20th century.

[NSP Report 32] China��s Alliance Policy in the 21st Century: Change and Continuity

This article aims at analyzing China��s alliance policy in the 21st policy. To this end, it investigates three topics. First is the readjustment of China��s foreign policy in the reform period and its effect on the changes of China��s alliance policy. Second is China��s countermeasure against the incremental strengthening of U.S.-Japanese alliance since the 1990s, which is the most serious security concern for China.

Prospects for Change in the Beijing-Pyongyang Nexus

Having detonated its first nuclear device in October 2006, North Korea conducted its second nuclear test on May 25, 2009. Having consistently attempted to dissuade the North from such tests, China has been infuriated by the North��s defiance of Chinese advice and interests. Immediately after the 2009 test, China released a statement almost identical to the one it announced in the wake of the 2006 test.

EAI Newsletter [January 2010]

EAI �� Asia Foundation Workshop

A joint project of The Asia Foundation��s Center for U.S.-Korea Policy and the East Asia Institute seeks to understand the influence and roles of domestic stakeholders on the democratic alliance partnership between the United States and South Korea during the following dates.

EAI-CISS Roundtable

The EAI together with Peking University��s Center for International & Strategic Studies (CISS)co-organized a roundtable session on ��Future of the Region after Global Economic Crisis: The Role of China and South Korea in East Asia.�� As MacArthur Asia Security Initiative core institutions, the EAI and CISS co-organized the event to facilitate future cooperation.

East Asia��s Future after the Global Economic Crisis: The Role of China and South Korea for the Region

Since the normalization of diplomatic relations in 1992, it is now generally agreed that ROK-China relations have come to be one of the most important in the East Asia region. This positive relationship is seen in the convergent policy goals such as the denuclearization of North Korea and preserving stability in the region.

Kidnapping Politics in East Asia

Despite-- or perhaps due to-- the enormous impact of Kenneth Waltz��s Man, the State, and War and Theory of International Politics, it has long been de rigueur for students of world politics to question-- or at least to nibble at-- the strictest structural assumptions of his brand of realism. Even scholars who accept Waltz��s ideas about relative power as the primary driver of and constraint on state action in an anarchic world have sought explanations for the strategic behavior of nation states that more fully incorporate political dynamics and choice.

The 7th Expert Seminar: Richard J. Samuels

EAI held its seventh expert seminar, inviting Richard J. Samuels from MIT. Samuels delivered a presentation on the topic of ��Kidnapping Politics in East Asia��. There was a heated debate with scholars who participated in the seminar, including a moderator Sook-Jong Lee (EAI) and three designated discussants, Sang-Joon Kim (Yonsei University), Chang-hee Nam (Inha University) and Myon Woo Lee(Sejong Institute).

EAI Newsletter [December 2009]

Four Scenarios for a Nuclear North Korea

The issue of resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis is one of the most protracted and difficult issues facing the Obama administration with no clear end in sight. Negotiations whether bilateral or multilateral, have both been frustrated at different stages and levels. Looking toward the future and taking in a long-term perspective, how the North Korean nuclear crisis will be resolved is one of the key challenges for the United States and the countries in the region when negotiating with Pyongyang.

Summary of Korea-Australia Leadership Forum 2009

The 2nd Annual Australia-Korea Leadership Forum was held on November 5-6th, 2009 at the Westin Chosun Hotel, Seoul. The inaugural Forum was held in Canberra, Australia in 2008, co-hosted by The Australian National University (ANU) and the East Asia Institute (EAI), Seoul.

Summary of 3rd ROK-US Alliance Conference: Lecture & Roundtable

The Lee Myung-bak administration��s recent decision to deploy a Provincial Reconstruction Team and supporting troops to Afghanistan, the relocation of the U.S. forces to Pyeongtaek, and President Obama��s visit to South Korea in November, 2009 sheds new light on the Republic Of Korea-United States (ROK-US) alliance in the post-9/11 world.

EAI Newsletter [November 2009] : II

[EAI Commentary No.5] Toward a Smart Alliance: The ROK-U.S. Relationship after President Obama��s Asia Trip

Asia is the region where a quarter of the total of American products is consumed, major bilateral allies exist, various networks of mul-tilateral institutions operate, and new powers are rising. President Obama, during his first Asia trip, tried to emphasize that America is an Asia-Pacific power that will continue its commitment through a renewed East Asia strategy of ��power of balance.��

Northeast Asian Security Dialogue between China and ROK

The East Asia Institute together with the Center for International & Strategic Studies (CISS) at Peking University will be hosting the Northeast Asian Security Dialogue between China and ROK (NASD). Following on from the last successful NASD forum which was held in Beijing in 2008, the 2nd forum of the NASD for 2009 will be held under the title of ��How to enhance strategic cooperation between China and South Korea over the future of North Korea?��

Discussion of Jennifer Lind's Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics

apology, memory, history, reconciliation, threat perception, Japan, Korea, Germany, World War II

Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States.

China��s Ascent: Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics.

Local People��s Congresses in China: Development and Transition.

The People��s Congresses and Governance in China: Toward a Network Mode of Governance.

Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation.

Infrastructure as the Magnet of Power: Explaining Why Japanese Legislators Left and Returned to the LDP

Japan, Liberal Democratic Party, party switching, partisan realignment, infrastructure investment

Contentious Histories and the Perception of Threat: China, the United States, and the Korean War—An Experimental Analysis

Korean War, US-China relations, historical relevance, history textbooks, threat perception, anxiety, anger, pride

Policy Learning or Diffusion: How China Opened to Foreign Direct Investment

China, economic reform, foreign direct investment, diaspora networks, policy diffusion, developmental state, special economic zones, SOE reform

Diversionary Dragons, or ��Talking Tough in Taipei��: Cross-Strait Relations in the New Millennium

diversionary theory, cross-strait relations, China, Taiwan, international conflict, Chinese politics, East Asian politics

The third Korea-U.S. Alliance Conference 5

The EAI, with the support from the Pyongtaek City, will host the third Korea-US Alliance Conference on November 3, 2009 at Lotte Hotel Seoul. At the conference, former Senior Secretary for Foreign Affairs and National Security, Byung-Kook Kim (Korea University) and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Tom J. Christensen (Princeton University) will deliver a public lecture on the topic of "Toward Smart ROK-U.S. Alliance."

The third Korea-U.S. Alliance Conference 4

The third Korea-U.S. Alliance Conference 3

The third Korea-U.S. Alliance Conference 2

The third Korea-U.S. Alliance Conference 1

Transcript of 3rd ROK-US Alliance Conference Lecture

Thank you very much Professor Chun. Thanks to EAI president Dr. Lee and Professor Byung-Kook Kim for inviting me to address this important topic. I also like to thank EAI staff, especially Ms. So-young Lee. I��m so honored to be included in this panel, particularly with Dr. Byung-Kook Kim on the same panel. I have admired and respected him since I first met him in Beijing.

Implications of the Financial Crisis for Soft Power in East Asia

The international financial crisis of 2008 shook the foundations of the global economy to their very core. It originated in New York but some of the strongest tremors were felt in Asia where trade plummeted and economic growth ground to a halt, or reversed, in many countries. This was no ordinary crisis. The fallout has the potential to shift the tectonic plates of international politics in one of the most strategically important regions of the world.

Regional Financial Solidarity without the United States: Contested Neoliberalism in East Asia

One of the most conspicuous phenomena in East Asian economic relations in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 (hereafter AFC) is arguably the emergence of what William Grimes calls ��East Asian financial regionalism,�� which he defines in terms of ��[East Asian states��] attempts to reduce currency volatility, to create frameworks to contain financial crises, and to develop local financial markets�� (Grimes 2009, 2).

Understanding North Korea��s Strategic Assessments in 2009 and the Reference Point Gap on the Korean Peninsula

Explaining the mindset of the North Korean regime has been a difficult, if not the most difficult, assignment for scholars and policy-makers who study North Korea. Without this understanding, negotiations often go nowhere and confrontations may escalate into a crisis because the situation is misread. Some have characterized North Korea as aggressive, reckless, and irrational (Downs 1999; Cha 2002; Bush 2002), while others have tried to pinpoint its unique internal logic and motives (Snyder 1999; Kang 2003).

Embracing Asia, South Korean Style: Preferential Trading Arrangements as Instruments of Foreign Policy

Why and how is South Korea embracing Asia? Continuity and change are the two governing forces of history. For a long time, the Cold War–based regional order heavily constrained the way in which South Korea perceived and interpreted the idea of the region to which it belongs. Hostile geostrategic circumstances and historical animosities held by the Koreans created a strong ��geographical bias�� with a mix of weak intra-regional linkages to their Asian neighbors and strong extra-regional ties to the United States, both economically and strategically.

How Comprehensive Is Comprehensive Enough?: Dealing with the North Korean Nuclear Problem

Sanctions against North Korea will realize the policy objectives of South Korea and other nations only when combined with feasible post-sanction plans for the next round of negotiations. International economic and diplomatic sanctions after North Korea��s second nuclear test, which occurred on May 25, 2009, have been successful enough to make Kim Jong-il send gestures indicating a willingness to reengage in dialogue, mainly with Washington and partly with other participants in the Six-Party Talks, including Seoul.

Embracing Asia, South Korean Style: Preferential Trading Arrangements as Instruments of Foreign Policy

Understanding North Korea��s Strategic Assessments in 2009 and the Reference Point Gap on the Korean Peninsula

EAI Newsletter [November 2009]

EAI Newsletter [October 2009] : ��

The 6th InfraVison Forum

To provide a blueprint for the infrastructure of South Korea's future development, the EAI has held the Infravison Forum since 2007. The forum is designed to have an open discussion with Korean government officials on current national security issues. On November 24 2009, the 6th forum was held and discussed the issue of the "G-20" with Dong-sun Park, Ambassador for Economic Cooperation from the Ministry of Finance and Trade.

Evening Gala for Friends of EAI

On Thursday December 3, 2009, the East Asia Institute(EAI) held the ��Evening Gala for Friends of EAI�� to celebrate the 7th Anniversary of the EAI. This event was specially prepared to give thanks to those who have been kindly supporting the EAI with a warm heart.

The 7th Global Academy Seminar of 2009

EAI held its seventh 2009 Global Academy on Wednesday, November 18th. Professor Jennifer M. Lind from Dartmouth College gave a lecture to 16 selected students from various universities in Korea. The academy was moderated by professor Ajin Choi from Yonsei University. The topic was ��Regime Type and National Remembrance.��

The 6th Expert Seminar with Jennifer M. Lind

EAI held its sixth expert seminar, inviting Jennifer M. Lind from Dartmouth College. Jennifer made a presentation on the topic of ��Regime Type and National Remembrance�� There was a heated debate with scholars who participated in the seminar, including a moderator Hyung Kook Kim (Sookmyung Womens University) and three designated discussants, Dong Sun Lee (Korea University), Jinseog Yu (Sookmyung Womens University), Chang-hee Nam (Inha University).

Regime Type and National Remembrance

Analysts have speculated that regime type has a powerful influence on how states remember, and thus on the potential for international reconciliation. Scholars argue that whereas authoritarian regimes purvey chauvinist myths about their past behavior, democracies are more likely to remember the past in conciliatory ways, because leaders have electoral legitimacy, and because of a free marketplace of ideas.

EAI �� CCGA Collaboration Workshop on Soft Power

The global economic crisis is potentially a transition moment in the history of postwar order in East Asia. It is at least as significant as the 1997 crisis and probably more so. In late 2008 regional trade collapsed while growth rates plummeted. American capitalism and globalization stand co-accused.

The 5th Smart Talk with Professor Joel S. Wit

EAI held the 5th Smart Talk with Professor Joel S. Wit (Columbia University) on November 11, 2009. Professor Wit gave a presentation titled, ��Four scenarios for a nuclear North Korea�� which lays out four scenarios for the future and looks at their implications for the peninsula, region (China, Japan and maybe Russia) and the international community.

China��s Soft Power: Its Limits and Potentials

China��s impressive rise is essentially China��s economic rise. With a real Gross Domestic Product growth rate of 9.8 percent from 1979 to 2007, China is expected to surpass Japan next year and become the second-largest economy in the world. China��s exports of US$1,218 billion surpassed United States exports of US$1,162 billion at the end of 2008, and it is already the world��s largest holder of foreign exchange reserves, valued at US$1.9 trillion. This phenomenal economic rise has generated a popular projection that China will surpass the United States as an economic power sometime in the mid-twenty-first century. Considering the fact that China��s economic size today is already a quarter of that of the United States, the contemporary perception of China��s economic influence reflects its future. In this sense, the popular confidence that China��s high performance will continue, which is usually thought of as hard power, actually constitutes China��s soft power.

China��s Soft Power: Its Limits and Potentials

[EAI Commentary No.4] The Future of ROK-Japan Relations

On October 9, 2009, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio met in Seoul for the ROK-Japan Summit. This summit took place only two weeks after the two leaders had held their first bilateral summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 23.

How Comprehensive Is Comprehensive Enough?: Dealing with the North Korean Nuclear Problem

EAI Newsletter [October 2009] : II

The 4th Smart Talk with Dr.Marcus Noland

EAI will hold the 4th Smart Talk with Dr.Marcus Noland (Peterson Institute for International Economics) to talk about the U.S. economic policy toward Asia. After the presentation titled ��United States Economic Policy Toward Asia,�� the designated discussants will actively discuss the issues raised.

[memo] Future of North Korea Panel: Meeting 7

[memo] National Security Panel: Meeting 53

Since Deng Xiaoping embarked upon reform policies in 1978, China��s alliance strategy has followed a two-track path. It has stuck to a principled ��non-alignment�� policy while also emphasizing its so-called ��a new concept of security��. ��

Korea-Australia Leadership Forum 2009

The East Asia Institute and Australian National University are annually co-hosting the Korea-Australia Leadership Forum. While the first forum was held in Australia last year, the second forum was held in Seoul at the Chosun Hotel from November 5th-6th. This year, the topic was on ��Middle Power Partnership and Cooperation�� and the invited panel discussed the future direction of cooperation between Korea and Australia.

Regional Financial Solidarity without the United States: Contested Neoliberalism in East Asia

Maintaining the middle class

According to a recent survey on social status co-conducted by the JoongAng Ilbo and the East Asia Institute, approximately half the nation��s population believe they belong to the marginal middle class and fear that they could fall into a lower class category at any moment.

Economic crisis took toll on middle class identification

In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, nearly 50 percent of Koreans believe they belong to the ��marginal middle class (lower middle and upper low classes)�� and many admit they are unhappy with their salaries, according to recent research conducted by JoongAng Ilbo and East Asia Institute.

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EAI Newsletter [October 2009]

The 4th Smart Talk with Dr.Marcus Noland

GlobalNet 21: Meeting 17

EAI will host the 17th GlobalNet21 Meeting inviting Minister In-taek Hyun(Ministry of Unification) to talk about ��North Korea Nuclear Issues and North-South Korean relationship��

The third Korea-U.S. Alliance Conference

The 6th Global Academy Seminar of 2009

EAI held its sixth 2009 Global Academy on Thursday, October 8th. Professor Saori N. Katada from University of Southern California gave a lecture to 23 selected students from various universities in Korea. The academy was moderated by professor Yong Wook Lee from Korea University. The topic was ��Politics that Constrains: The logic of Fragmented Regionalism in East Asia.��

The 5th Expert Seminar with Saori N. Katada

EAI held its fifth expert seminar, inviting Saori N. Katada from University of Southern California. Saori made a presentation on the topic of ��Politics that Constrains: The logic of Fragmented Regionalism in East Asia�� There was a heated debate with scholars who participated in the seminar, including a moderator Young Jong Choi (University of Korea) and four designated discussants, Min Gyo Koo (Yonsei University), Seung Joo Lee (Chung Ang University), Yul Sohn (Yonsei University) and Hyeok Yong Kwon (Korea University).

Politics that Constrains: The Logic of Fragmented Regionalism in East Asia

Recent global challenges to the governance of East Asian political economy including the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) have led to two sets of visible institutional innovations in the region. Kicked off by the Japanese proposal of the Asian Monetary Fund in the immediate aftermath of the AFC, there have been active cooperation and policy coordination around the financial and monetary arrangements such as the Chiang Mai Initiative and the ongoing discussion of regional bond and currency initiatives.

[EAI Commentary No.3] Japan under the DPJ: Changes in Foreign and Defense Policies

On August 31, 2009 the Democratic Party of Japan��s (DPJ) landslide victory in the country��s national election brought fifty-four years of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) political dominance to an end. The DPJ won 308 of the 480 seats in the Lower House. Combined with 118 of the 237 seats in the Upper House that it won in July 2007, for the first time, the DPJ now controls both houses.

[EAI Commentary No.2] North Korea at the Crossroads

North Korea is now at the crossroads. It needs to make a strategic decision on whether to defend its nuclear program and ��military-first politics�� against the pressure of increasing international sanctions or to denuclearize and pursue ��economy-first politics.�� Depending on which decision Kim Jong-il makes, his successor will face either the path of opportunity or the path of peril. Currently, Kim faces the challenge of ensuring a smooth transition of power to his successor.

G-2 Era? Global Rise of China and the Future of East Asia / the Future of American Leadership

Amidst the financial turmoil arising from the global economic crisis in late 2008, many observers recognized that the current international order was changing. It was clear that the United States could not make any rapid recovery by itself and that rising Asia, China in particular, would be playing a new and more prominent role.

Wisemen Roundtable 4

After the public lecture, a smaller group of scholars, policy-makers, and members of the media gathered at the Seoul Plaza hotel on Feb. 12th, 2008 for "The Wisemen Roundtable on Soft Power in Northeast Asia." The Korea Foundation and EAI co-organized this speaker panel with Prof. Nye and invited guests from the U.S., Europe, Japan, Taiwan and Korea all attending.

Wisemen Roundtable 3

Wisemen Roundtable 2

Wisemen Roundtable 1

Public Lecture by Prof. Joseph S. Nye 5

EAI and the Korea Foundation co-organized a public lecture given by Professor Joseph S. Nye on February 12th, 2008 at the Korean Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Professor Nye, who is a notable expert in diplomacy and security studies, presented a lecture on "Smart Power and the War on Terror" and Professor Shin-Wha Lee (Korea Univ.) moderated the Q&A session following the lecture.

Public Lecture by Prof. Joseph S. Nye 4

Public Lecture by Prof. Joseph S. Nye 3

Public Lecture by Prof. Joseph S. Nye 2

Public Lecture by Prof. Joseph S. Nye 1

EAI Newsletter [September 2009]

Party Politics of Corporate Restructuring: The Institutional Evolution of South Korean Political Economy

At the heart of the current theoretical innovation within the comparative capitalisms literature lie distinct institutional configurations of national economies that generate a particular systemic logic of corporate action. Especially, the notion of institutional complementarities in which different institutional arrangements across diverse economic domains have distinct merits and demerits for different kinds of corporate activity has gained considerable currency during the last decade.

EAI-JPI East Asia Peace Conference

The East Asia Institute and Jeju Peace Institute, as part of their joint project, hosted the 1st East Asia Peace Conference on Friday September 11, 2009 at Caladium Hall, PJ Hotel. The conference consisted of three sessions. In the first two sessions, three presenters made a presentation to set the agenda for the designated discussion. In the 3rd session, presenters and discussants from the 1st and 2nd session along with EAI panel members had a roundtable discussion on the subject.

Reconciling Rivals: War, Memory, and Security in East Asia

The third Smart Talk was held on July 9, 2009 with Professor Mike Mochizuki (Elliot School, George Washington University) presenting on the topic of ��Reconciling Rivals, War, Memory, and Security in East Asia.�� A panel of leading experts actively discussed the issues raised by Professor Mochizuki in his presentation.

Reconciling Rivals: War, Memory, and Security in East Asia

2009 Main News

2009 Main News is available.

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Korea Institute at ANU

The Korea Institute, through an endowment provided by POSCO, BHP and Rio Tinto, is seeking applications from suitably qualified scholars for the position of Postdoctoral Fellow for a fixed term of 2 years. As the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow appointed by the Korea Institute, you will be expected to revise your own PhD dissertation for publication; lend support to Australia-Korea Leadership Forum; and develop and teach an undergraduate course, in your second year, focused on Korea.

EAI August Newsletter 2: Issue Briefing Update

Japan between Alliance and Community

In a series of town hall meetings during the winter of 2005–2006, Aso Taro, then Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Koizumi cabinet, introduced an interesting concept of Japan��s role in Asia. Japan can and should play the role of a ��thought leader,�� who through fate has been forced to face certain very difficult issues earlier than others. Because Japan has put great effort, both monetarily and socio-politically, into resolving issues that include ultra-nationalism, an aging society, and environmental protection, it has become the forerunner for other Asians to emulate (Aso 2005). This role as a soft power leader contrasts with the existing hard power–oriented (i.e., economic) discourse of international contribution as well as the conventional soft power discourse that is rooted in the Japanese culture and sensibilities, such as animation, fashion, and cultural products. Japan��s strength lies in the firstmover knowledge it provides for Asia, creating a network of knowledge available to others

Japan between Alliance and Community

The World Congress for Korean Politics and Society 2009

The Korea Association of Political Science (KPSA) organized the World Congress for Korean Politics and Society 2009 entitled ��Korea at the Crossroad,�� on August 21st, 2009. KPSA asked the EAI��s Asia Security Initiative to co-host a panel with prominent scholars from abroad.

5th InfraVison Forum

The East Asia Institute (EAI), since 2007, has organized "InfraVision Forum" that offers to open discussions on current issues of national security with leading figures in order to establish a blueprint for the development of a future infrastructure in Korea. The 6th seminar will be held with Ambassador Hyun Cho on May 21th, 2009. Mr. Cho is Ambassador for Energy and Resources, Republic of Korea.

EAI Newsletter [August 2009]

EAI Newsletter [July 2009] : II

Muddling along with Missiles

On April 4, 2009, North Korea carried out a rocket launch. North Korea argued that it was a satellite launch vehicle rather than a warhead-carrying ballistic missile, and portrayed the launch in innocuous and civilian terms, even naming the rocket ��Unha,�� which means ��Galaxy�� in Korean, to emphasize its space-oriented function.

A Smart Alliance in the Age of Complexity

The ROK-U.S. alliance today faces a complex security environment. It faces threats that are more diverse and complicated and require a more delicately balanced approach for the alliance.

Moving From a North Korean Nuclear Problem to the Problem of North Korea

North Korea is repeating the same pattern of nuclear diplomacy: raising the level of military tensions by launching a long-range rocket and performing a nuclear test, and then searching for the most favorable position once negotiations resume.

South Korea��s Soft Power Diplomacy

Soft Power has entered Korean policy circles in recent years and has become for them an attractive foreign policy tool. Since the end of the Korean War, South Korea has strived to build up its hard power, a strong military to contain an aggressive North Korea and economic growth to pull the country out of poverty.

Finance for Development: East Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe

East Asia has often been singled out for its remarkable economic growth, especially in comparison to economies in other regions of the world. Many scholars have sought to explain this unprecedented growth, such as in relation to the changing role of finance, and what this implies about the future of the world economy.

Smart Talk: Barbara Stallings

The East Asia Institute (EAI) organizes "Smart Talks" that offers an opportunity for leading scholars in Korea to meet and engage ideas with prominent figures from around the world.

The 2nd Smart Talk with Charles L. Pritchard

EAI held the 2nd Smart Talk with Experts inviting Charles L. Pritchard from Korea Economic Institute to talk about the North Korean nuclear issues.

The 3rd Smart Talk with Mike M. Mochizuki

EAI held the 3rd Smart Talk with Mick M. Mochizuki (George Washington University) to talk about national and regional identity issues in East Asia.

EAI confirms NASD 2009 student participants

The EAI has confirmed student participants for the Northeast Asia Security Dialogue (NASD) 2009, which will be held in Seoul by the EAI and the Center for International and Strategic Studies(CISS) of Peking University.

Homecoming for Interns 2009

The 16th GlobalNet 21 Forum: Part 3

The East Asia Institute organized the 16th GlobalNet 21 Forum entitled, "North Korea Opens: Recent Economic Developments in the DPRK," with the Professor Stephan Haggard (University of California, San Diego).

Muddling along with Missiles

The North Korean Nuclear Threat

North Korea��s recent nuclear test and missile launch appears to be following a familiar pattern. However, a careful observation shows us that what we are witnessing is something very different. We have seen a real lack of flexibility on the part of the North Koreans. It is all something that is far more nationalistic and therefore more geared towards a domestic audience.

Selected Scholars for EAI Fellows Program 2009-10

The East Asia Institute is pleased to announce the selection of ��EAI Fellows on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia�� for the academic year 2009-2010, with support from the Henry Luce Foundation of New York and the Chang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange of Taipei.

The 16th GlobalNet 21 Forum: Part 2

Korea-US Alliance Transformation and Pyeongtaek Presentation

Korea-US Alliance Transformation and Pyeongtaek Contents

ROK-U.S. Strategic Alliance for the 21st Century Presentation

Agenda 1. ROK-U.S. Alliance in the Post-Cold War Era 2. How to Envision the ROK-U.S. Alliance 3. Tasks for the Strategic Alliance

The Future of U.S.-ROK Relations

In the months before North Korea��s test of a nuclear weapon on October 9, 2006, there was a groundswell of policy and scholarly discussion of this prospect, amid strident North Korean rhetoric, diplomatic deadlock, and especially in the wake of the North��s provocative test of seven ballistic missiles in July of that year. While some analysts believed a nuclear test to be Pyongyang��s ��last card�� which it would only threaten to play, others viewed a test as a likely eventuality, for both technical and political reasons. Analysts worried that the effects of such a test could be catastrophic— a demonstrated North Korean nuclear capability might stoke a new Asian arms race, with Japan, Taiwan, and perhaps South Korea potentially eschewing U.S. extended deterrence in favor of their own nuclear status. Conventional wisdom, especially in American policy circles, held that a North Korean nuclear test was a presumed ��red line�� that would yield a uniform, punitive response from Washington��s partners in six-party talks— a diplomatic construct that, like the U.S.-ROK alliance, had heretofore been plagued by differences in fundamental assumptions about the appropriate combination of pressure and dialogue. Just before President Roh��s September 14 visit to Washington, The Economist took stock of the ��strained�� alliance and asserted, as if an article of faith, that if the North did conduct a test, ��America and South Korea would no doubt be brought closer together.�� While in Washington, Roh seemed to reinforce this perception, telling a group of Korea experts that a nuclear test would be ��far more devastating�� than the missiles tests and ��would certainly cause a major re-evaluation of [inter-Korean] relations,�� perhaps finally leading Seoul to utilize its purported leverage over the North.

New Vision of Korea-US Alliance (and Warning Signs Ahead)

Presented at a Conference on ��Transformation of Korea-US Alliance,�� sponsored by the East Asia Institute of the Republic of Korea, July 3, 2008. In examining the ROK-US alliance and its future prospects, we should remember constantly the core purposes of any alliance. They are two in number. The first is to cooperate militarily to deter and defeat militarily a common adversary. The second is to promote stability in a given geographical region, most often by the alliance helping to create a more stable balance of power in the region. Granted, alliances also can have other important purposes. A negative purpose of some alliances in history has been to strengthen alliance partners in their aggressive designs toward neighbors. Some alliances in the last century also have aimed at promoting ideological influences over large areas of the world. Nevertheless, in fashioning our views toward the future the ROK-US alliance, these two core purposes should never be far from our minds.

Explaining Corruption in South Korea, Relative to Taiwan and the Philippines

By comparing Korea��s relative level of corruption with that of Taiwan and the Philippines and examining how a political economy of corruption has developed over time within Korea, I test my ��inequality hypothesis�� and existing theories on causes of corruption. I find that inequality of income and wealth best explains the relative level of corruption among these countries and across time within Korea, consistent with my hypothesis.

A Comparative Study of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese Traditional Family and Contemporary Business Organizations

Although China, Japan, and Korea have shared a common cultural tradition of broadly defined Confucianism, which as whole is quite different from the Western tradition, their modern fate diverged after the East came to contact with the West around the middle of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century, the three countries followed different paths for modernization, national building and industrialization that also produced different results. However, in the last few decades, the paths of these countries begin to converge. With China shedding its communist ideology, and returning to a more market oriented economic development strategy that approximates the path that other East Asian countries followed, and increasingly drawing its inspiration from China��s own tradition and resources rather than from exported ideologies, it has become more imperative to critically examine similarity and differences among these three countries. This paper attempt to analyze what is believed to have continuing bearing on the actual operation of contemporary business organization. As an initial part of a larger project on comparative study of institutional template in these countries, this paper exclusively focuses on the traditional family structures in China, Korea, and Japan., under the concept of ��institutional template.

Citizen Support for Civil and Political Rights in Asia

Citizen support for civil and political rights is a hallmark of democratic governance and necessary component in Asia��s democratization process. Citizen support for these rights exists to the extent that political elites allow the creation and protection of democratic institutions and practices.

The 3rd Smart Talk with Mike M. Mochizuki

EAI held the 3rd Smart Talk with Mick M. Mochizuki (George Washington University) to talk about national and regional identity issues in East Asia.

The 4th Global Academy Seminar of 2006

War-like History or Diplomatic History? Historical Contentions and Regional Order in East Asia

The 3th Global Academy Seminar of 2006

Dilemma of Openness: Societal Pressure in China��s Foreign Policy Making

The 2th Global Academy Seminar of 2006

New Methods for Understanding Power and Legitimacy in China: The Cases of Patriotism, Law, and Gender

The 1st Global Academy Seminar of 2006

The Northeast Asian Triangle and Regionalism

The 16th GlobalNet 21 Forum: Part 1

Review of The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan

Review of How China Grows: Investment, Finance, and Reform

Review of Democracy and Diversity: Political Engineering in the Asia-Pacific

Review of The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the "Opening" of Japan

Review of Wildlife Conservation in China: Preserving the Habitat of China��s Wild West

Institutional (Dis)Incentives to Innovate: An Explanation for Singapore's Innovation Gap

innovation, varieties of capitalism, institutions, Singapore, technology, technological, politics, research, gross expenditure on research and development, national innovative capacity

Out of the Gray: The Impact of Provincial Institutions on Business Formalization in Vietnam

formalization, property rights, Vietnam, land title, governance, institutions, provincial competitiveness index, PCI, institutions, economic growth

The Disbursement Pattern of Japanese Foreign Aid: A Reappraisal

international relations, foreign aid, official development assistance (ODA), gaiatsu, US-Japan relations, humanitarianism, human rights, neorealism, determinants

Patterns of Civilian Control of the Military in East Asia's New Democracies

civil-military relations, democratization, East Asia, Indonesia, military, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, transition

Labor Rights in East Asia: Progress or Regress?

labor rights, trade unions, East Asia, Southeast Asia, labor market flexibility, labor law, freedom of association, collective bargaining, right to strike

Credibility Low for DP, GNP: Survey

The prosecution and the Blue House are enjoying more power and influence than last year but the Grand National Party and the Democratic Party, the two pillars of Korea��s contemporary political scene, now have the lowest credibility rating among 25 corporate, political and government organizations surveyed recently by the JoongAng Ilbo and East Asia Institute, a local think tank.

EAI Newsletter [July 2009]

[EAI Commentary No.1] Assessment and Future Challenges of the U.S.-ROK Summit: From a Policy of Sanctions to a Policy of 'Coevolution'

Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-ROK alliance has gone through the greatest and most rapid changes in its fifty-six-year history. Yet the United States and South Korea have both failed to establish any strategic "Joint Vision" for the alliance in this new era. The Roh Moo-hyun administration dealt with many issues of alliance transformation.

The 5th Global Academy Seminar of 2009

EAI held its fifth 2009 Global Academy on Tuesday, July 7th. Professor William W. Grimes from Boston University gave a lecture to 25 selected students from various universities in Korea.

The 4th Expert Seminar with William W. Grimes

EAI held its fourth expert seminar, inviting William W. Grimes, as the fifth participant of EAI Fellow in 2009. Grimes made a presentation on the topic of "The Global Financial Crisis and East Asia: Testing the Regional Financial Architecture."

Analyzing Collective Violence in Indonesia: An Overview

The Global Financial Crisis and East Asia: Testing the Regional Financial Architecture

The Asian Financial Crisis had a catalyzing effect on East Asian financial policy makers, as it laid bare both the exposure of regional countries to global finance and the apparent indifference to their plight on the part of the IMF and United States. Whatever else the crisis produced—and it had enormous economic, political, and social ramifications in many countries —it clearly raised concerns about the ability and willingness of the guarantors of global financial stability to care about East Asian stability.

The 2nd Smart Talk with Charles L. Pritchard

EAI held the 2nd Smart Talk with Experts inviting Charles L. Pritchard from Korea Economic Institute to talk about the North Korean nuclear issues.

North Korea Opens: Recent Economic Developments in the DPRK

Political control is the core interest of the North Korean regime. It will not respond to any economic incentives that could weaken its control by even the slightest measure. This tough picture of North Korea painted by Ste-phan Haggard has strong ramifications on any negotiating process with North Korea.

GlobalNet 21: Meeting 16

The EAI hosted its 16th GlobalNet 21 Forum with Stephen Haggard (UCSD) talking about "The Political Economy of North Korea: Strategic Implications." After the presentation, the panel with Prof. Lee Guen (SNU-GSIS), Assemblyman Hong Jungwook (GNP), Lim Byeong-cheol of the Unification Ministry and Prof. Chun Chaesung (SNU) actively discussed the issues raised.

U.S. Scholar Frowns on South��s Policies on North

U.S. scholar Stephan Haggard paints a negative picture of South Korea��s past and present policies on North Korea, saying he believes a mixture of engagement and constraining policies is the better way forward.

The Third Expert Seminar with Jonathan Schwartz

EAI held its third expert seminar, inviting Jonathan Schwartz, as the fourth participant of EAI Fellow in 2009. Schwartz made a presentation on the topic of "Effectively Controlling Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Comparing Taiwanese and Chinese Responses to SARS."

The 4th Global Academy Seminar of 2009

EAI held its fourth 2009 Global Academy on Friday, June 5th. Professor Jonathan Schwartz from State University of New York, New Paltz gave a lecture to 22 selected students from various universities in Korea.

The 3rd Global Academy Seminar of 2009

EAI held its third 2009 Global Academy on Thursday, June 4th. Professor GiWook Shin from Stanford University gave a lecture to 32 selected students from various universities in Korea.

Apply for NASD Students Forum

The second Northeast Asia Security Dialogue (NASD) is planned to be held in Seoul in September 2009. This will be the second forum held since the first in Beijing last year.

EAI Newsletter [June 2009]

Moving From a North Korean Nuclear Problem to the Problem of North Korea

The 2nd Global Academy Seminar of 2009

EAI held its second 2009 Global Academy on Friday, May 29th. Professor Jianwei Wang from Tufts University gave a lecture to 27 selected students from various universities in Korea.

The 2nd Expert Seminar with Jianwei Wang

EAI held expert seminar, inviting Jianwei Wang, as the second participant of EAI Fellow in 2009. Alan M. Wachman made a presentation on the topic of "China's Peaceful Rise: A Comparative Study."

National Security Panel: Meeting 53

The 1st Global Academy Seminar of 2009

EAI held its first 2009 Global Academy on Wednesday, May 20th. Professor Alan M. Wachman from Tufts University gave a lecture to 33 selected students from various universities in Korea.

The 1st Expert Seminar with Alan M. Wachman

EAI held expert seminar, inviting Alan M. Wachman, as the first participant of EAI Fellow in 2009. Alan M. Wachman made a presentation on the topic of "Mongolia's Geopolitical Gambit: Preserving a Precarious Independence while Resisting Soft Colonialism."

A Smart Alliance in the Age of Complexity

The ROK-U.S. alliance today faces a complex security environment. It faces threats that are more diverse and complicated and require a more delicately balanced approach for the alliance.

China��s Rise: East Asia and Beyond

We are, it appears, in the midst of another celebratory cycle. Impatient journalists declare a particular decade, especially this one, as the moment in which one particular country will remake a world region, indeed the entire world, in its own image. Based on its meteoric economic rise and riding what eventually turned into a financial bubble, Japan in the 1980s was widely greeted as a challenger which would come to rival the U.S. as a global power in the 21st century. Pax Nipponica was to be shaped by a civilian power that was destined to determine the technological trajectory of most societies. The i-pod as the successor of the walkman and a Scott as head of SONY illustrate how wrongheaded this world view really was. A decade later, the same thinking was applied to the United States. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the era of globalization America offered a model to the world that appeared to have no rival.

China��s Peaceful Rise: A Comparative Study

China��s rise as a leading economic and military power is among the most epic phenomena in the 21st century. Since the Chinese leadership made a strategic choice to reform its economic system and to open up to the world economy in the late 1970s, China has sustained an average annual economic growth of about 10 percent for thirty years, the fastest in the world and unprecedented in world history of economic development.

Mongolia��s Geopolitical Gambit: Preserving a Precarious Independence While Resisting

After centuries of dependence on the Qing and Soviet domains, Mongolia became independent in 1990. Since then, it has sought to preserve independence while balancing the interests of its two neighbors, Russia and the People��s Republic of China.

Exogenous Shocks and Endogenous Opportunities: The Economics-Security Tradeoff and Regionalism in East Asia

East Asia is becoming more regionalized. But it is doing so in fits and starts: two steps forward and one step back. Indeed, skeptics might suggest that even such a tentative description imputes unjustified clarity and speed to the process of regional cohesion. At present Asian governments share no overarching regional vision, nor have they demonstrated the political leadership and will needed to create robust institutions aimed at deepening and regularizing state-to-state interactions across the region. Yet even with its many missteps, Asia has, beyond question, become a far more regionalized neighborhood than it was one or two decades ago. During the Cold War ideological divisions, bilateral alliances, and the legacies of colonialism kept the attention of most governments focused on nation-building and domestic matters. The result was a series of formidable barriers against widespread regional cooperation.

Presidential Transitions in Korea

Visible Success and Invisible Failure in Post-Crisis Reform in Korea: Interplay of the Global Standards, Agents and Local Specificity

The reform in post-crisis Korean was one of the most comprehensively and decisively implemented reform. Though impressed by the stunning around within a short period of time, many are now questioning about what has really changed in the economy. The concern comes together with the recognition of both benefits and the cost of the reform. While the reform has brought the Korean firm into a more stable and profitable state of the business, the economy is now suffering from weak investment, slow growth and rising unemployment. This study thus proposes to consider the Korean case as ��visible success and invisible failure,�� based on the following findings.

5th InfraVison Forum

Prospects for the North Korean Nuclear Crisis after the Missile Test

The current North Korean nuclear crisis is in deadlock. Although there was some progress made during the second term of the Bush Administration, there is little reason to feel optimistic about the future. The current impasse is centered on making progress towards the third phase as set out in the Feb. 13th agreement reached through the Six-Party Talks. In the Joint Statement of the Fourth Round of the Six-Party Talks on 19th September, 2005, the principle "action for action" was outlined as the format for implementing the agreed phased actions.

National Security Panel Seminar Series Meeting 52

Following the remarkable election of President Barack Obama, there has been much debate about which direction the new administration will go with its foreign policy. In South Korea we see two kinds of expectations and assessments about which path the Obama administration will take.

Inaugural MacArthur Grantees' Meeting

MacArthur Foundation and 27 Grantees will have the Inaugural MacArthur Grantees' Meeting and the Official Launch of the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative (ASI) from 28th to 29th May 2009 respectively at the Four Seasons Hotel, Singapore. The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University is organizing this Inaugural Meeting.

Changing Korean Voters 3

South Korea��s Soft Power Diplomacy

Smart Talk: Barbara Stallings

The East Asia Institute (EAI) organizes "Smart Talks" that offers an opportunity for leading scholars in Korea to meet and engage ideas with prominent figures from around the world.

Soft Power Coiner Nye to Visit Seoul

Harvard Professor Joseph Nye, who pioneered the theory of "soft power," will visit Seoul from Feb. 11 to 13 to deliver a lecture and participate in a seminar on his theory, according to the Korea Foundation Thursday.

Korea Needs Public Diplomacy Strategy

A Dutch scholar renowned for his research on public diplomacy said every country including South Korea has to realize the importance of public diplomacy as it has become a central element of diplomatic practice today. 'Foreign ministries in the world pay more attention to their countries' reputation overseas. But the government can't decide what other people think about Korea,' Jan Melissen, director of the Clingendael Diplomatic Studies Program of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations, told The Korea Times.

U.S. Official Says North Korea a Hellish Nightmare

Top U.S. arms negotiator John Bolton described North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on Thursday as a tyrannical dictator who lived like royalty while jailing thousands and keeping many hungry in a "hellish nightmare."

New Millennium Dorasan Lecture Series on Peace and Human Security

The East Asia Institute based in Seoul held a "New Millennium Dorasan Lecture Series on Peace and Human Security" in 2005 as part of its effort to raise public consciousness on international peace and environmental preservation.

Shifting Terrain

On 5th of November, EAI held an international conference with the Asia Foundation and East-West Center at Hawaii Unversity in Seoul Press Center. Scholars from Korea, Japan and Philippines made a presentation on the topic of "the U.S. Armed Forces assigned in Asia/Pacific region and the relationship between local government and the civil society in those regions."

PSI, North Korea and WMD

The former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control, John R. Bolton, participated in the public lecture organized by EAI and emphasized the North Korean Nuclear problem as an global issue, not only the U.S. involved in.

East Asia Institute: A Premier Think Tank

No Consensus On Who Was Behind 9/11

International Conference on Peace, Development, and Regionalization in East Asia

EAI and GFNA(The Gorbachev Foundation of North America) co-hosted International Conference on "Peace, Development, and Regionalization in East Asia" at Shilla Hotel.

National Security Panel: Meeting 52

Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space

A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism

A Political Explanation of Economic Growth: State Survival, Bureaucratic Politics, and Private Enterprises in the Making of Taiwan's Economy, 1950–1985

Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Marketplace

Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power

Dragon Dust: Atmospheric Science and Cooperation on Desertification in the Asia and Pacific Region

desertification, long-range transport of dust, science and policy, international environmental cooperation

Review of Xinjiang: China's Muslin Borderland by S. Frederick Starr

Financial Reform, Institutional Interdependency, and Supervisory Failure in Postcrisis Korea

financial reform, institutional interdependency, formal and informal institutions, institutional reform, postcrisis reform, financial supervision, supervisory failures, Korean credit card companies

Review of The State of Civil Society in Japan by Frank J. Schwartz and Susan J. Pharr

Review of Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population by Valerie M. Hudson

Party Fabrication: Constitutional Reform and the Rise of Thai Rak Thai

Thailand, elections, political parties, democracy, institutions, reform, Thaksin, Southeast Asia

Review of The Rise and Fall of the East Asian Growth System, 1951-2000 by Xiaoming Huang

East Asian Financial Regionalism in Support of the Global Financial Architecture? The Political Economy of Regional Nesting

Chiang Mai Initiative, Asian Bond Market Initiative, financial regionalism, Japan, ASEAN+3, institutional design, East Asia

Review of Civil Society in Japan: The Growing Role of NGOs in Tokyo's Aid Development Policy by Keiko Hirata

China's Rise, Asia's Future

The Economics of Cross-Strait Relations: A Reply to Ming Wan

Signaling Democracy: Patron-Client Relations and Democratization in South Korea and Poland

democratization, signaling, patron-client relations, international pressure, Cold War, regime change, authoritarianism, security, South Korea, Poland

Economics Versus Security in Cross-Strait Relations: A Comment on Kastner

Electoral Reform and the Costs of Personal Support in Japan

Japan, LDP, campaign finance, electoral reform, campaigns, personal vote, incumbency, rational choice, institutionalism, mixed-member electoral systems

Does Economic Integration Across the Taiwan Strait Make Military Conflict Less Likely?

China, Taiwan, economic interdependence, trade, conflict

Review of Citizen Power, Politics, and the "Asian Miracle": Reassessing the Dynamics by O. Fiona Yap

Review of Public Opinion and Political Change in China by Wenfang Tang

Corporate Unionism and Labor Market Flexibility in South Korea

South Korea, corporate unionism, big business, collective action problem, globalization, flexibility, labor market, flexicurity, employment protection

Review of China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy by Yong Deng and Fei-Ling Wang

Multiple Principals and Collective Action: China's Rural Credit Cooperatives Poor Households' Access to Credit

Principal-agent, multiple principals, collective action, China's political economy, credit cooperatives

Review of Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan: Global Norms and Domestic Networks by Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien

Review of Japan's Foreign Aid: Old Continuities and New Directions by David Arase

Review of The Politics of Multiple Belonging: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe and East Asia by Lela Garner Noble

In Response to Michael H. Nelson

Omitted Variables, Intent, and Counterfactuals: A Response to Michael H. Nelson

Review of Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin

Institutional Incentives and Informal Local Political Groups (Phuak) in Thailand: Comments on Allen Hicken and Paul Chambers

Review of Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan by Thomas F. Cargill, Michael M. Hutchison, and Takatoshi Ito

Chronic Food Shortages and the Collective Farm System in North Korea

North Korea, economic reform, collective farm

Review of China's Economic Transformation by Gregory C. Chow

Review of Japan's Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change by Jennife A. Amyx

The Evolution of South Korea's Rural Institutions: The Political Economy of Export Promotion and Market Protection

economic development, agriculture, livestock, institutions, protection, export promotion, National Livestock Cooperatives Federation (NLCF), National Agricultural Cooperatives Federation (NACF), Park Chung Hee

Communication Networks and Changes in Electoral Choices: A Study of Taiwan's 2002 Mayoral Elections

partisan defection, vote switching, communication networks, voter preferences, political disagreement

Bitter Taste of Paradise: North Korean Refugees in South Korea

North Korea, DPRK, migration, communism, refugees, defectors, border, postsocialism, ��sunshine policy��, North-South Korea relations, minorities

Economic Interdependence and Peace: A Game-Theoretic Analysis

economic interdependence, dependence theory, trade and peace, economic sanction, issue linkage, cross-strait relations, Taiwan Strait, Chinese economy, Taiwan independence, game theory

Agenda Control, Intraparty Conflict, and Government Spending in Asia: Evidence from South Korea and Taiwan

strategic interactions, intraparty relations, elections, democratization, government spending, institutional constraints

How Globalization Drives Institutional Diversity: The Japanese Electronics Industry's Response to Value Chain Modularity

value chain modularity, institutional diversity, global value chains, lean production, electronics industry, Internet bubble, outsourcing, offshoring, organizational models, production systems

The Social Benefit System in Urban China: Reforms and Trends from 1988 to 2002

social benefits, social policy reform, urban China

Review of The Lost Wolves of Japan by Brett L. Walker

Roundtable Discussion of Richard J. Samuels's Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan

Japan, Italy, leadership, politics, history, political choice

Review of The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II by Peter Schrijvers

Review of Globalization and State Transformation in China, by Yongnian Zheng

Review of China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia by Peter C. Perdue

Review of Small Savings Mobilization and Asian Economic Development: The Role of Postal Financial Services, by Mark J. Scher and Naoyuki Yoshino, Editors

Review of Organizing the Spontaneous: Citizen Protest in Postwar Japan by Wesley Sasaki-Uemura

Review of Globalisation and Economic Security in East Asia: Governance and Institutions by Helen E.S.Nesadurai, ed.

Review of Contested Governance in Japan: Sites and Issues by Gleen D. Hook, ed.

Review of Northeast Asia's Stunted Regionalism: Bilateral Distruct in the Shadow of Globalization, by Gilbert Rozman

Partisanship and Democratization

cognitive dissonance, democratization, East Asians, partisanship, rational choice, socialization

Review of The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future, by Elizabeth C. Economy

Partisanship and Citizen Politics in East Asia

partisanship, political participation, East Asian democracy, citizen politics

Evolving Toward What? Parties, Factions, and Coalition Behavior in Thailand Today

cabinet, coalition, democracy, faction, fragmentation, party, political, system, Thailand, Thaksin

The Politics of the Dokdo Issue

Dokdo, changes in domestic environments, activation of non-governmental actors, politicization of the issue, diplomatic row

Partisanship in East Asia

party identification, partisan strength, East Asia

Value Cleavages, Issues and Partisanship in East Asia

value change, authoritarian, libertarian, economic voting, partisanship, voting

Navigating the Path of Least Resistance: Financial Deregulation and the Origins of the Japanese Crisis

financial deregulation, Japan, financial bubble, financial supervision, financial globalization, interest groups, Yen-Dollar Agreement, East Asian Financial Crisis

Taiwan's State and Social Movements Under the DPP Government, 2000–2004

social movement, democratization, political opportunity, Taiwan, Democratic Progressive Party

Social Structure and Party Support in the East Asian Democracies

political parties, voting, social cleavages, democratization

Breaking Authoritarian Bonds: The Political Origins of the Taiwan Administrative Procedure Act

administrative procedures, black-gold politics, bureaucratic transparency, corruption, KMT factions, public participation, Taiwanese politics

The Patterns of Party Polarization in East Asia

polarization, left-right, political parties, spatial models

Review of Banking on Multinationals: Public Credit and the Export of Japanese Sunset Industries, by Mireya Solis

Electoral Systems and Party Systems in East Asia

democracy, electoral systems, political parties, Asia-Pacific

Review of Japanese Electoral Politics: Creating a New Party System, by Steven R. Reed, ed.

Review of Transforming Korean Politics: Democracy, Reform, and Culture, by Young Whan Kihl

Introduction: Parties, Party Choice, and Partisanship in East Asia

Review of Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan, by Sabine Fruhstuck

Review of Corruption and Good Governance in Asia edited by Nicholas Tarling

Review of Globalization and Human Rights, by Alison Bryskmm, ed.

Review of Competition and Corporate Governance in Korea: Reforming and Restructuring the Chaebol edited by Sung-Hee Jwa and In Kwon Lee

International Patterns in National Identity Content: The Case of Japanese Banknote Iconography

national identity, international norms, values, national currencies, banknote iconography, Japan, Europe

Review of Institutions, Incentives, and Electoral Participation in Japan: Cross-Level and Cross-National Perspectives by Yusaku Horiuchi

Progress Through Setback or Mired in Mediocrity? Crisis and Institutional Change in Southeast Asia

technology, upgrading, skills training, bureaucracy, Southeast Asia, crisis, collaboration, institutional change, path dependency, policy reform

Review of the Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture by Song Geng

From Technocracy to Aristocracy: The Changing Career Paths of Japanese Politicians

administrative, reform, zoku, bureaucracy, Japan, LDP, second-generation, cabinet, politicians, seniority

Review of Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities by Melissa J. Brown

Southeast Asia's Hybrid Regimes: When Do Voters Change Them?

political regimes, authoritarianism, democracy, hybrid politics, elites, mass publics, civil liberties, elections, voters, transitions, Southeast Asia

Democratization and the US–South Korean Alliance

democratization, alliance, nationalism, Korea, United States

Public Diplomacy and North Korea Policy: Diverging Effects of U.S. Messages in the United States and South Korea

North Korea, Bush administration, issue framing

Global Competition and Technology Standards: Japan's Quest for Techno-Regionalism

Japan, Asia, technology policy, Internet protocol, open source software, horology

Review of Promises of Empowerment: Women in Asia and Latin America, by Peter H. Smith, Jennifer L. Troutner, and Christine Hunefeldt

Roundtable: Peter J. Katzenstein's Contributions to the Study of East Asian Regionalism

regionalism, Asia, Europe, American imperium, Japan, China, Korea, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), analytical eclecticism, free trade agreements (FTAs), security

Review of The Power of Institutions: Political Architecture and Governance, by Andrew MacIntyre

Transformation of Japan's Civil Society Landscape

citizenship, civil society, democracy, Japan, nonprofit organization, volunteering

Review of Competitiveness, FDI, and Technological Activity in East Asia, by Sanjaya Lall and Shujiro Urata

Review of Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea by Joseph Wong

Review of Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies, by Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang

Review of Militant Islam in Southeast Asia: Crucible of Terror, by Zachary Abuza

Review of Japan's Dual Civil Society: Members Without Advocates by Robert Pekkanen

Hong Kong's Post-1997 Institutional Crisis: Problems of Governance and Institutional Incompatibility

executive-led system, institutional relationships, state capacity, policy and implementation failures, crisis management, probity and accountability shortfall, national security legislation, confidence in political institutions, constitutional reform, democracy substitution

Review of Korea in the New Asia: East Asian Integration and the China Factor by Francoise Nicolas

Measuring and Explaining Party Change in Taiwan: 1991–2004

Taiwan, political parties, elections, party change

Review of Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan by David Leheny

Bilateralism, Multilateralism, or Regionalism? Japan's Trade Forum Choices

Trade policy, bilateralism, multilateralism, regionalism, preferentialism, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), World Trade Organization (WTO), free trade agreement (FTA), forum choices/forum shopping, international institutions

Review of Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice by Neil J. Diamant, Stanley B. Lubman, Kevin J

Veterans, Organization, and the Politics of Martial Citizenship in China

China, veterans, People's Liberation Army, veterans organizations, disability, rights, employment, conscription, patriotism, citizenship

Dealing with a Truculent Ally: A Comparative Perspective on China's Handling of North Korea

China, North Korea, alliances, informal alliances, unequal alliances, ententes, entrapment, restraint of ally, Cambodia, Pakistan

Bound to Rule: Party Institutions and Regime Trajectories in Malaysia and the Philippines

democratization, democracy, authoritarianism, autocracy, dictatorship, parties, institutions, elections, regime change, elites

What Can Taiwan (and the United States) Expect from Japan?

Japanese foreign policy, Japan-Taiwan relations, Japan-China relations, Sino-Japanese relations

Vertical Imbalance and Local Fiscal Discipline in China

China, vertical imbalance, fiscal discipline, tax-sharing system, fiscal federalism, intergovernmental transfers, extrabudgetary funds, fiscal decentralization, hard budget constraint, common pool

Review of Globalization and Democratization in Asia: The Construction of Identity by Catarian Kinnvall and Kristina Jonsson, eds.

How Americans Feel About Asian Countries and Why

foreign policy (US), public opinion (US), internationalism, isolationism, education, information, capitalism, world markets, poverty

Review of China's Past, China's Future: Energy, Food, Environment by Vaclav Smil

Review of Japan Between Asia and the East: Economic Power and Strategic Balance by Ming Wan

Western Imperialism and Defensive Underdevelopment of Property Rights Institutions in Siam

colonialism, property rights, institutional change, economic development, international relations, Southeast Asia

Review of Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan, by Richard J. Samuels

Review of The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950, by Charles K. Armstrong

Review of Unequal Allies? United States Security and Alliance Policy Toward Japan by John Swenson-Wright

From Learning to Creating: Biotechnology and the Postindustrial Developmental State in Korea

South Korea, biotechnology, developmental state, R and D, industrial policy, industrial coordination, small and medium sized enterprises

Review of Cross Currents: Regionalism and Nationalism in Northeast Asia edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel C. Sneider

Industrial Policy, Chinese-Style: FDI, Regulation, and Dreams of National Champions in the Auto Sector

China, auto, industrial policy, foreign investment, national champions

Review of Sino-Japanese Relations: Facing the Past, Looking to the Future? by Caroline Rose

Development, the Second Time-Around: The Political Logic of Developing Western China

western China, developmental state, Premier Zhu Rongji, fixed-asset investment, foreign direct investment, private sector, environmental protection, factional politics, Chinese Communist Party

Review of One World of Welfare: Japan in Comparative Perspective by Gregory J. Kasza

Postindustrial Pressures, Political Regime Shifts, and Social Policy Reform in Japan and South Korea

Review of Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier by C. Patterson Giersch

After the Developmental State: Civil Society in Japan

North Korea and the World: A Bibliography of Books and URLs in English, 1997-2007

North Korea, scholarship, bibliography, history, Korean War, DPRK regime, Kim Jong Il, human rights, economy, military, United States, arms control, negotiation, security, DPRK-ROK unification, peace, future

The Adaptive Developmental State in East Asia

developmental state, 1997 financial crisis, adaptive states, democracy, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan

Assessing North Korean Nuclear Intentions and Capacities: A New Approach

comparative foreign policy, DPRK (North Korea), national identity conceptions, neopatrimonialism, nuclear proliferation, regime type and state structure, sultanistic regimes, threat assessment

Review of The Quality of Life in Korea: Comparative and Dynamic Perspectives, by Doh Chull Shin, Conrad P. Rutkowski, and Chong-Min Park

Review of Fighting Corruption in Asia: Causes, Effects, and Remedies, by John Kidd and Frank-Jurgen Richter

Interest Groups in North Korean Politics

North Korea, DPRK, institutions, interest groups, pluralism, cabinet, NDC, KWP

Review of Alliance in Anxiety: Detente and the Sino-American-Japanese Triangle, by Go Ito

Review of Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement, by Selig Harrison

The Origins of Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: Experts and the Marketing of Political Interests

Indonesia, decentralization, federalism, institutionalism, transition

Review of Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China, by Thomas P. Berstein and Xiaobo Lu

State-Technologist Nexus in Taiwan��s High-Tech Policymaking: Semiconductor and Wireless Communications Industries

Industrial Policy, State, Technologist, Taiwan, Semiconductor, Wireless Communication

Democratization and Government Education Provision in East Asia

democratization, education policy, East Asia, redistribution, eduction spending, school enrollment, error correction model, time-series-cross-section analysis, Taiwan, Thailand

Patterns of Market Polarization and Market Matching in the Korean Film Industry

Market polarization, Market matching, Korean movie industry, Recurrent ties, Trust, Reputation, Hollywood, Culture-producing industry

Human Security and East Asia: In the Beginning

human security, responsibility to protect, humanitarian intervention, sovereignty, East Asia

Review of Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia, 1996-1999 by Jemma Purdey

Review of Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, and Social Change by Tamara Jacka

State Preferences and International Institutions: Boolean Analysis of China��s Use of Force and South China Sea Territorial Disputes

China, use of force, state preferences, international institutions, Boolean algebra, threshold of risk tolerance, South China Sea

Review of Pax Pacifica: Terrorism, the Pacific Hemisphere, Globalisation and Peace Studies by Johan Galtung

Regionalism and Critical Junctures: Explaining the ��Organization Gap�� in Northeast Asia

Critical Juncture, Asian Integration, Catalytic Crisis, Regional Institution Building, Organization Gap, Northeast Asian Transnational Relations, San Francisco System, Chiangmai Model, Comparative Regionalism, Multilateralism

Review of The East Asian High-Tech Drive by Yun-Peng Chu and Hal Hill

Review of Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China by Mary Elizabeth Gallagher

Review of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937, by Shu-Mei Shih

Local and National: Keroyokan Mobbing in Indonesia

Indonesia, keroyokan, mobbing, violence, Bali, Kalimantan, Bengkulu, Java, ethnography, decentralization

Review of Protestantism and Politics in Korea, by Chung-shin Park

Explaining Ethnic Violence in Indonesia: Demilitarizing Domestic Security

Indonesia, communal conflict, ethnic violence, religious violence, democratic transition, military reform, human rights

Review of North Korea: The Politics of Unconventional Wisdom, by Han S. Park

Review of China since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition, by Joseph Fewsmith

Ethnic Conflicts in Indonesia: National Models, Critical Junctures, and the Timing of Violence

Indonesia, conflict, ethnic violence, Maluku, Kalimantan, Dayak, Aceh, Papua, democratization

Review of Beyond Late Development: Taiwan's Upgrading Policies, by Alice H. Amsden and Wan-wen Chu

Local Conflict in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Understanding Variations in Violence Levels and Forms Through Local Newspapers

Conflict, violence, Indonesia, ethnic violence, World Bank, development, culture, local conflict

The Changing Shape of Islamic Politics in Malaysia

Islam, Islamic movements, democratization, Malaysia, United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS)

Creating Datasets in Information-Poor Environments: Patterns of Collective Violence in Indonesia, 1990–2003

Indonesia, riots, collective violence, ethnic conflict, communal conflict, New Order

Between Balancing and Bandwagoning: South Korea's Response to China

balance of power, accommodation, China, Korea, US alliance

The Changing Anatomy of Regional Trade Agreements in East Asia

Regional trade agreements (RTAs), Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), Asia, United States, trade political economy, tariff liberalization, rules of origin, competition policy, customs, investment, services trade, agriculture

Growing into Trouble: Institutions and Politics in the Thai Sugar Industry

clientelism, institutions, market, property rights, prisoners' dilemma, state, sugar, Thailand, upgrading, value chain

The Transnational Protection Regime and Taiwan's Democratization

Taiwan, democratization, human rights, transnational networks, external pressure, political opposition

The Chinese Axis: Zoning Technologies and Variegated Sovereignty

Regionalization and Regionalism in East Asia

Regionalization, (New) Regionalism, Globalization, Asian Financial Crisis, ASEAN, ASEAN Plus Three (APT), APEC, East Asian community

The Balance of Power, Globalization, and Democracy: International Relations Theory in Northeast Asia

Northeast Asian security, Realism, Democratic peace, China, North Korea, Regional security cooperation, Interdependence and security

The 2008 Malaysian Elections: An End to Ethnic Politics?

Malaysia, elections, authoritarianism, democratization, ethnic politics

Japanese Lower House Campaigns in Transition: Manifest Changes or Fleeting Fads?

election campaigning, mixed-member electoral system, voter targeting, voter mobilization, voter chasing, manifestos, Japan

Balancing the Checks: Thailand's Paralysed Politics Post-1997

China, Factional Politics, Jiang Zemin, Factional Mobilization, Party Organization, Central-Local Relations

Review of Understanding Regime Dynamics in North Korea: Contending Perspectives and Comparative Implications by Chung-in Moon, ed.

Review of Think No Evil: Korean Values in the Age of Globalization by C. Fred Alford

Review of North Korea Through the Looking Glass by Kongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig

Review of Japan's Economic Dilemma: The Institutional Origins of Prosperity and Stagnation by Bai Gao

Review of Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia by Kai-wing Chow, Kevin M. Doak, and Poshek Fue, eds.

Review of Culture and the State in Late Choson Korea eds. by JaHyun Kim Haboush and Martina Deuchler

Balancing the Checks: Thailand's Paralysed Politics Post-1997

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human rights, democratic governance, authoritarian past, South Korea, Philippines

Political Institutions and the Malaise of East Asian New Democracies

political institutions, presidentialism, parliamentary system, East Asian democracy, divided government, constitution, party system

Reveiw of Beyond Late Development: Taiwan��s Upgrading Policies, by Alice H. Amsden and Wan-wen Chu

Judgment Heuristics and Prospect Theory: Some Practical Implications for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait

China: A Challenge or Opportunity for the United States?

China, U.S., U.S. Grand Strategy, Balance of Power

The U.S.-South Korean Alliance: Anti-American Challenges

U.S.-South Korean Alliance, U.S. Military Presence, SOFA, Democratization, Nuclear Crisis

The End of History, the Rise of Ideology, and the Future of Democracy on the Korean Peninsula

South Korea, North Korea, Democratization, the Sunshine Policy, Kim Dae-Jung, the Summit, inter-Korean Relations, George W. Bush, Divisions in the South

Strong Demands and Weak Institutions: The Origins and Evolution of the Democratic Deficit in the Philippines

The Phillippines, Democratic Deficit, Patronage Politics, the Colonial Era, Postindependence Political Parties, Elite Hegemony, Mass Electorate, Authoritarianism

Review of The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995, by Kenneth J. Ruoff

Review of Toward Normalizing U.S.-Korean Relations: In Due Course? by Edward A. Olsen

Review of Multiethnic Japan, by John Lie

Review of The Sage and the Second Sex, by Chenyang Li

Engaging the Estranged: Reciprocity and Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula

Review of Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000, by David M. Lamption

REVIEW ESSAY: Searching for National Identity in Japan and China

Legalistic Confucianism and Economic Development in East Asia

East Asia, Confucianism, Economic Development, Political Failure, Xunzi, Dong Zhongshu, Zhu Xi, Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy Chaibong Hahm, Professor of Political Science, Yonsei University Wooyeal Paik, Ph.D candidate in the Department of Political Science, UCLA

The Birth of a Welfare State in Korea: The Unfinished Symphony of Democratization and Globalization

Korea, Welfare State, Democratization, Globalization, Social Policy, the Financial Crisis

Review of How Asia Got Rich, by Edith Terry

Review of Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines, by David C. Kang

Review of Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan, by Harry Harootunian

Review of Korea's Future and the Great Powers, by Nicholas Eberstadt and Richard Ellings

The U.S.-China Peace: Great Power Politics, Spheres of Influence, and the Peace of East Asia

Budget Review in the National Assembly of Democratic Korea

democratic consolidation, legislative deadlock, horizontal accountability, Korean National Assembly, budgetary policy making, preliminary review, comprehensive review, Special Committee on Budget and Accounts, standing committees, legislative reform

Japan��s New Regionalism: The Politics of Free Trade Talks with Mexico

free trade agreements (FTAs), regionalism, NAFTA, Japan, Mexico, agricultural liberalization, maquiladoras, rules of origin.

Institutionalized Uncertainty and Governance Crisis in Taiwan

party turnover, KMT, DPP, constitutional reforms, governing crisis, semi-presidentialism, parliament-executive relations, democratic consolidation

Review of Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Crisis Management by Saori N. Katada

Review of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix

Review of The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis

Review of Chinese Collaboration with Japan: The Limits of Accommodation by David P. Barrett and Larry N. Shyu, eds.

Review of Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China by Michael A. Santoro

Financial Restructuring in Korea and Japan: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans and Reorganization of Financial Institutions

It took the helmsman of determining which financial institution is out of market.

State Mediation of Global Financial Forces: Different Paths of Structural Reforms in Japan and South Korea

Rethinking of the Pre-Modern East Asian Region Order

The China Factor in the U.S.-Japan Alliance: the Myth of a China Threat

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ACFTU, China, Collective Bargaining, Collective Contracts, Economic Reforms, Human Resources, ILO, Industrial Relations, Iron Rice Bowl, Labor Legislation, Labor-market, Management-labor Relations, PRC, Trade Unions, Workplace Relations, WTO

REGIONAL REPORT: Redefining Security Roles: Japan's Response to the September 11 Terrorism

Japan, 9-11 Terrorism, Security Policy, 1992 Peacekeeping Law, 1999 US-Japan Security Guidlines, US-Japan Security Alliance, Constitution, Asian Regional Politics, Normalcy

REGIONAL REPORT: Hyundai Crisis: Its Development and Resolution

South Korea, Hyundai Crisis, Economic Crisis, Government-Business Relatonship, Hyundai Group's Split, Hyundai Construction, Hynix Semiconductor

REGIONAL REPORT: Politics, Economy, and Dynamics of Presidential Popularity in the Kim Dae Jung Government in South Korea

South Korea, Presidential Popularity, Kim Dae Jung Government, Public Opinions, Economic Performance, Economic Recovery, Class Defection

REGIONAL REPORT: The Politics of Financial Reform in Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand: When, Why, and How Democracy Matters

Korea, Financial Reform, Malaysia, Thailand, Political Regime, State Bureaucracy, 1997 Financial Crisis, Democracy, Authoritarianism

REGIONAL REPORT: Asia Pacific and Global Order in the Post 9-11 World

Global Order, Post 9-11 World, Int'l Politics, New World Order, Power Relations, East Asian Security, North-South Korean Relations, Effect of 9-11

International Relations Of Northeast Asia in the US: Area Studies, Disciplines, and Regional Coverage

Northeast Asia, Bilateral Arenas, Area Studies, Regional Studies, US Area Experts

Area Studies, Regional Studies, and International Relations

Regionalization, Area Studies, Regional Studies, International Relations Studies, Cultural Critiques, Post-modernism, Nomothetic Approach

The Sociology of A Not-So-Integrated Discipline: The Development of International Relations in Japan

Japan, Social Science, International Politics, Japanese Diplomacy, Socialization, American Scholarship

The Study of International Relations in Taiwan

Taiwan, IR Studies, Industrial Policy, Epistemology, American Universities

International Relations Studies in China

China, IR Studies, Funding, Chinese Approach

International Relations Studies in South Korea

Ontology, Epistemology, Methodology, System Transformation, South Korea, Liberal Constructivism, Disipline of International Relations

IR Studies East and West: Some Sociological Observations IR Studies East and West: Some Sociological Observations

Great Debates, Inter-Paradigm Debate, Rationalism, Reflectivism, American International Relations

Introduction: Towards an East Asian IR Community?

International Relations, Discipline, East Asia, Great Debates

REGIONAL REPORT: Citizens' Coalition Movement and Consolidation of Democracy: 2000 General Elections in South Korea

South Korea, Coalition Movement, General Elections, Civic Groups, Defeat Campaign, Pubilc Endorsement, Civil Disobedience

REGIONAL REPORT: Politics by Other Means: Village Elections in China

Village Election, Politics by Other Means, Peasantry, Economic Reform, Electoral Precess, Organic Law of Villagers' Commitree

REGIONAL REPORT: From "Strategic Partners" to "Strategic Competitors": George W. Bush and the Politics of U.S. China Policy

U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Presidential Election, Strategic Partnership, Strategic Competitors, Status-quo Ante, Taiwan

The Northeast Asian Regional Context for Environmentalism: Assessing Environmental Goals against Other Priorities in the 1990s

Threats without Enemies, Security without Borders: Environmental Security in East Asia

Environmental Security, Northeast Asia, Regional Security Complex, Human Security, Environmental Integrity

Restructuring Environmental Policy in Japan: The 1990s and Beyond

Japan, Environmental Policy, Kyoto Protocol, Administrative Reform, Global Warming, Environmental ODA

Mao��s Was Against Nature: Legacy and Lessons

Militarization, Mao, Communist Party, Revolutionary China, Formalism, Relocation, War on Nature

Women in Politics, Protecting the Environment in Northeast Asia

Women's Groups, Environmental Decision-Making, Environmental Movement, Northeast Asia

Environmental Regime-Building in Northeast Asia: A Catalyst for Sustainable Regional Cooperation

Environmental Regime, Regionalism, Environmental Cooperation, Interdependence, Population, Energy Security, Transboundary Pollution

Introduction – Environmental Politics in Northeast Asia: Domestic and International Dimensions

Environmental Protection, Environmental Security, Northeast Asia

REGIONAL REPORT: China into the World Economic System

China, China's economy, China's WTO, WTO membership, World Economic System, Economic Transformation, Financial System, SOE, US-China, China's GDP

REGIONAL REPORT: Sizing Up Taiwan's Political Earthquake

Taiwan, Taiwan's Election, KMT, Lee Teng-hui, Chen Shui-bian, Democratic Transition, Democratic Governance, WTO entry, KMT-PFP, James Soong

Balance, Parallelism, and Asymmetry: United States-Korea Relations

United States, South Korea, North Korea, Sunshine Policy, Balance, Asymmetry, Dialogue

The Evolving Inter-Korean Relationship and Regional Politics

South Korea, North Korea, United States, Alliance, China, NMD, TMD, Kim Jong-Il

To Go or Not to Go: South and North Korea's Nuclear Decisions in Comparative Context

South Korea, North Korea, Two Koreas, Nuclear Weapons, Proliferation, Alliance

Back to the Future: The Politics of Economic Reform under the Kim Dae-Jung Presidency

South Korea, Kim Dae-jung, Reform, Presidency, Chaebol, Labor, Party Politics, Economic Reform,

GlobalNet21: Meeting 15 (Paper Summaries)

GlobalNet21: Meeting 15

Korea-Australia Leadership Forum: Meeting 1 (Participants' Bios)

Korea-Australia Leadership Forum: Meeting 1

Globalization and Environmental Risk in China��s Relations with Japan

The April 2007 visit by Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to Japan highlights new opportunities for cooperation between China and Japan to address challenges of globalization, such as pollution and rising demand for energy, yet progress in their relations has been uneven.

Getting the Triangle Right: South Korean Management of the Sino-Japanese Rivalry

South Korea needs a new strategy for managing triangular ties with China and Japan. It. must address the deteriorating state of Sino-Japanese relations as well as U.S. scepticism about China��s push for regionalism and the South��s autonomous inclinations through a patient role as a facilitator, not a balancer.

The Stubborn Myth of Rising Patriotism in Modern China

This paper examines how veterans of the People's Liberation Army were treated in their communities and workplaces after their demobilization in the 1950s and 1960s. It argues that evidence of widespread discrimination against veterans, who were lauded by the state for their heroism and sacrifice, challenges one of the more common "tropes" of contemporary Chinese politics--that patriotism and nationalism are rising among wide swathes of the population.

Dilemma of Openness: Societal Pressure in China��s Foreign Policy Making

The paper examines the increasing influence of various domestic factors such as academics, media, and public opinion within the context of newly developed internet technology, on the foreign policy making of the People��s Republic of China in the last decade. The basic research questions of this study are: Has there been an emergence of societal forces, independent of the Communist Party, that have begun to exert influence over the foreign policy making process?

The 15th GlobalNet21

EAI GlobalNet21 Forum took place at Kookdo Hotel on November 7, 2008. With Prof. Youngsun, Ha (Seoul National University), Trustee of EAI in the chair, four experts gave presentations and four experts debated on "The Obama Administrations's Security and Foreign Policy Strategy and the Korean Peninsula" as designated discussants.

The 5th ROK-U.S. Dialogue21

The 5th ROK-U.S. Dialogue 21, organized by EAI, was held in Shilla Hotel on September 8 for discussions among Korean Assemblymen and the U.S. authorities stationed in Korea on leading questions pending between Korea and America.

The 4th ROK-U.S. Dialogue21

The 4th ROK-U.S Dialogue 21, organized by EAI, was held in Shilla Hotel on May 31 for discussions among Korean Assemblymen and the U.S. authorities stationed in Korea on leading questions pending between Korea and America.

Welcoming Dinner for the

With the support of the Pyongtaek City Government, the EAI hosted the first session of the New Pyongtaek Conference at the Chosun Hotel on July 2~3, 2008. The following pictures were taken at the welcoming dinner (7 pm, July 2) for the "New Era, New Korea-US Alliance" conference.

The 6th Global Academy of 2008

On June 20, EAI invited Prof. Soo Yeon Kim (University of Maryland) to present her research on "Whither Multilateralism? International Trade in East Asia after the Cold War" for the last Global Academy seminar of the year.

The 6th Expert Seminar with Prof. Soo Yeon Kim

On June 18, EAI hosted an expert seminar in which the last EAI fellow of 2008, Prof. Soo Yeon Kim (University of Maryland), presented her research on "Whither Multilateralism? International Trade in East Asia after the Cold War."

The 5th Expert Seminar with Prof. Jong-Sung You

On June 4, EAI hosted an expert seminar in which Prof. Jong-Sung You (UC San Diego), the 5th EAI Fellow of 2008, presented his research, "Comparative Study of Corruption in South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines."

The 5th Global Academy Seminar of 2008

On June 3, EAI invited Professor Jong-Sung You (UC San Diego), the 5th EAI Fellow of 2008, to present his research, "Comparative Study of Corruption in South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines" at the Global Academy.

The 4th Expert Seminar with Prof. Hong Yeong Lee

On June 2, EAI hosted an expert seminar in which Prof. Hong Yeong Lee (UC Berkeley), the 4th EAI Fellow of 2008, presented his research on "A Comparative Study of Institutional Templates in China, Korea and Japan."

The 4th Global Academy Seminar of 2008

On May 30, EAI invited the 4th EAI Fellow of 2008, Prof. Hong Yeong Lee (UC Berkeley) to speak on "A Comparative Study of Institutional Templates in China, Korea, and Japan" at the Global Academy.

The 3rd Expert Seminar with Prof. Carlson

On May 13, EAI hosted an open expert seminar for the 3rd EAI Fellow of 2008, Prof. Matthew M. Carlson (University of Vermont), who presented on "Perceptions of Governance in East Asia."

The 3rd Global Academy Seminar of 2008

On May 9, EAI invited the third EAI Fellow of 2008, Professor Matthew M. Carlson (University of Vermont) to give a lecture on "Perceptions of Governance in East Asia" at the Global Academy.

The 14th GlobalNet21 Forum

The 14th EAI GlobalNet21 Forum took place at Hotel PJ on April 10, 2008 at 5:30 pm. Prof. Peter Katzenstein (Cornell University), who was visiting Korea as part of the EAI Fellows program, presented a lecture on "China's Rise: East Asia and Beyond."

The 2nd Global Academy Seminar of 2008

On Tuesday April 8, EAI invited the second EAI fellow of 2008, Prof. Peter Katzenstein, to speak on "China's Rise: East Asia and Beyond" at the Global Academy. The heated discussion following the presentation was coordinated by Prof. Ji Hwan Hwang of Seoul National University, and 32 students participated.

The 1st Global Academy Seminar of 2008

On Monday March 17, EAI invited Professor TJ Pempel (UC Berkeley), the first EAI fellow in 2008, to give his lecture on "The Security-Economics Tradeoff in Asian Regionalism" at the Global Academy.

The 13th EAI GlobalNet21 Forum

The 13th EAI Global Net 21 Forum took place at Hotel PJ on Tuesday March 18, 2008. Professor TJ Pempel gave a presentation on "The Security-Economics Tradeoff in Asian Regionalism," which was followed by a heated discussion moderated by EAI Trustee Professor Youngsun Ha.

The 3rd EAI Expert Seminar

On November 20th, 2007 EAI invited Professor Tun-jen Cheng, who is the Third EAI Fellow, to the Expert Seminar on "Religious Organizations in East Asian New Democracies" With Prof. Sook-Jong, Lee (Sungkyunkwan Univ.) in the chair

The 3rd EAI Global Academy_2007

On November 16 2007, EAI invited Professor Tun-jen Cheng (College of William and Mary), the Third EAI Fellow of 2007, to the Global Academy to give his lecture on "Religious Organizations in East Asian New Democracies."

The 12th EAI GlobalNet21 forum - Where is the U.S. presidential election going?

On October 25th (Tue) 2007, The EAI GlobalNet21 (President Youngsun, Ha, Professor at Seoul National University) and Korea Alumni association of Columbia University invited Alan Brinkley (Vice president of Columbia University, President of American Historical Association) opened a lecture on "The Perspectives for 2008 U.S Presidential Election" at the lilac tulip hall in the Chosun Hotel.

EAI Expert Forum with Prof. Joseph Wong

On September 19th, The EAI Expert Forum was held in EAI conference room with Prof. Joseph Wong (University of Toronto) on "The Political Meaning of Defeat of the Party in Power."

EAI Expert Forum with Prof. Zhu Feng

On July 20th, The EAI Expert Forum was held in EAI conference room with Prof. Zhu Feng (Peking University Graduate School of International Relations, Vice President of Peking University International Strategy Research Center) on "Korea-China Cooperation on Nuclear Issue of North Korea."

The 11th EAI GlobalNet21 Forum

On June 19th, the 11th EAI GlobalNet21 Forum (President Youngsun Ha, Trustee of EAI) was held in V-Society from 5:00pm to 9:30pm. Alexander Vershbow, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea gave a keynote presentation on "North Korea and the Future of the Six Party Talks."

The 9th ROK-U.S. Dialogue 21

The 9th ROK-U.S Dialogue 21 was held in the Swiss Grand hotel on 21th May to open an discussion on pending questions on the relations between Korea and the US.

The 2nd EAI Expert Seminar with Prof. Hymans

The 2nd Expert Seminar was held at EAI with Prof. Jacques Hymans (Smith College). With Prof. Sang-Hyun Lee (Sejong Institution) in Chair, Prof. Jacques Hymans (Smith College) presented on "Estimating the DPRK��s Nuclear Intentions and Capacities: A Comparative Foreign Policy Approach."

The 2nd Global Academy_2007

On May 7th 2007, Prof. Jacques Hymans (Smith College) was to invited to EAI to give out his lecture on "Estimating the DPRK's Nuclear Intentions and Capacities: A Comparative Foreign Policy Approach" to the students of EAI Global Academy.

The 1st Global Academy with Prof. Victoria Tin-bor Hui_2007

On April 12th 2006, Prof. Victoria Tin-bor Hui (University of Notre Dame) was invited to EAI to give her lecture on "War and Historical China: Problematizing Unification and Division in Chinese History" to the students of EAI Global Academy.

The 1st EAI Expert Seminar with Prof. Hui

On April 11th 2007 , the 1st Expert Seminar was held in EAI conference room. The session began with a presentation given by Prof. Victoria Tin-bor Hui(University of Notre Dame), an EAI fellow.

The 4th InfraVision Forum with the Uri Party Mirae Forum

InfraVision Forum was held on 22th of March, in EAI conference room. The aim of the forum was to invite Korean leaders and open an discussion on building infrastructure for future Korea.

The Presidential Election Panel Research 1st Meeting

EAI initiated the 2007 presidential election panel research project with SBS, JoongAng Ilbo and Hankook Research.

The 10th EAI GlobalNet21 Forum

On January 19th, Friday, the 10th EAI GlobalNet21 Forum was held in V-Society from 5:00pm to 9:30pm.

The 8th ROK-U.S. Dialogue 21

The 8th ROK-U.S Dialogue 21, a forum for discussing pending questions on ROK-U.S relation raised by Korean Assemblymen and the U.S authorities stationed in Korea, was held at the Chosun hotel on 10th Jan.

The 3rd InfraVision Forum with Hak Gyu Son, the former governor of Kyunggi-do

On October 30th 2006, EAI invited Hak Gyu Son, the former Prime Governor of Kyunggi-do to InfraVision Forum of which the aim is to discuss current issues on the national security with leaders and also to establish the blue print for the buildings of infrastructure in future Korea.

The 2nd InfraVision Forum with Go Kun, the former Prime Minister

On October 24th 2006, EAI invited Go Kun, the former Prime Minister, to InfraVision Forum of which the aim is to open discussions on current issues of the national security with leaders in order to establish the blueprint for the buildings of infrastructure in future Korea.

The 1st InfraVision Forum with Geun-Hye,Park, former Representative of the Grand National Party

On October 18th 2006, EAI invited Park, Geun-Hye, the former Representative of The Grand National Party to InfraVision Forum of which the aim is to open a discussion on current issue of the national security with leading political figures in order to establish a blueprint for building of infrastructure in future Korea.

The 5th Global Academy_2006

On October 17th 2006, Prof. Jeffrey Broadbent (University of Minnesota) came by invitation to EAI and gave his lecture on "Environmental Movements in Korea, Taiwan, Japan and China: Comparative Development, Opportunities and Functional Roles" to the students.

The 6th Global Academy_2006

On October 19th 2006, Prof. David Kang (Dartmouth College) came by invitation to EAI and gave his lecture on "China Reassures Asia: The Microfoundations of Hierarchy" to the students.

The 4th Global Academy

Global Academy

The 4th EAI Expert Forum

On September 7th 2006, EAI invited Prof. Jae-Jung Suh (Cornell University) and held the Expert Forum on "War-like History or Diplomatic History? Historical Contentions and Regional Order in East Asia."

The 7th ROK-U.S. Dialogue 21

The 7th ROK-U.S. Dialogue 21, a forum for discussing pending questions on ROK-U.S. relations raised by Korean Assemblymen and the U.S. authorities stationed in Korea, was held at the Chosun hotel on 28th Aug.

The 9th EAI GlobalNet21 Forum

On June 29th, the 9th EAI GlobalNet21 Forum was held in V-Society.

The 3rd Global Academy

On June 16th 2006, Prof. Yufan Hao (Colgate University) visited EAI and gave his lecture on "Dilemma of Openness: Societal Pressure in China's Foreign Policy Making" to the students.

The 2nd Global Academy_2006

On May 25th 2006, Prof. Neil J. Diamant (Dickinson College) visited EAI and gave his lecture on "New Methods for Understanding Power and Legitimacy in China: The Cases of Patriotism, Law, and Gender" to the students.

The 1st Global Academy_2006

On May 16th 2006, professor Gilbert Rozman (Princeton University) visited EAI and gave his lecture on "The Northeast Asian Triangle and Regionalism" to the students for the first time.

The 3rd EAI Expert Forum

On June 15th 2006, EAI invited Prof. Yufan Hao (Colgate University) and held the Expert Forum on "Dilemma of Openness: Societal Pressure in China��s Foreign Policy Making."

The 2nd EAI Expert Forum

On May 25th 2006, EAI invited Prof. Neil J. Diamant (Dickinson College) and held the Expert Forum on "New Methods for Understanding Power and Legitimacy in China: The Cases of Patriotism, Law, and Gender."

The 1st EAI Expert Forum

On May 18th 2006, EAI invited Prof. Gilbert Rozman (Princeton University) and held the Expert Forum on "The Northeast Asian Triangle and Regionalism."

Korean-American Alliance: A Vision and a Roadmap

On May 23rd in the conference hall at Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, EAI held ��Korean-American Alliance: A Roadmap.��

The 8th EAI GlobalNet21 Forum

The 8th EAI GlobalNet21 Forum, with Robert Einhorn, was held in the Maewha Hall of Press Center at 5:00pm on Feb 13.

The 6th ROK-U.S. Dialogue 21

The 6th ROK-U.S Dialogue 21, a forum for discussing pending questions on ROK-U.S. relation raised by Korean Assembly and the U.S. authorities stationed in Korea, was held at Shilla hotel on Jan 26th.

The 7th EAI GlobalNet21 Forum

The 7th meeting of EAI Global Net 21 was held in Seoul Club on January 16th. Ning Fukui, Ambassador of People��s Republic of China, was invited to give a presentation on "China��s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century."

International Conference on East Asia, Latin America, and New Pax Americana

In what way In what way does the new preeminence of the United States affect its relations with key countries in East Asia and Latin America as well as what takes place within those countries? This conference will focus on the impact of the United States on international and comparative economic, political, and military issues, including democratization and anti-terrorism in specific regional contexts. There will be specific papers on Brazil, Cuba, China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as well as on regionalism in East Asia and Latin America, all in the context of relations with, and the impact of, the United States.

The 6th GlobalNet21 Forum

On 12th of September, the sixth conference of EAI GlobalNet21 Forum was held at EAI conference hall.

The 5th GlobalNet21 forum

EAI GlobalNet21 held its fifth meeting on May 16 at 6:00pm. With the discussion getting more intense, the meeting was prolonged and ended at 9:20pm right before Seoul Club closed.

The 4th GlobalNet21 forum : Robert L. Gallucci

EAI GlobalNet21 held its fourth meeting on March 31, 2005. Robert Gallucci, the former U.S. nuclear ambassador was invited as a lecturer.

The 3rd ROK-U.S. Dialogue 21

Korea-U.S. Dialogue 21 provides an occasion for Korean Assemblymen and Americans in Korea to get together regularly to discuss the key current issues between two nations.

The 3rd GlobalNet21 forum

The third EAI GlobalNet21 forum was held on 26th of January with more than 30 members and discussants at Seoul Club in Jangchung-dong.

The 2nd GlobalNet21 forum

The second conference of GlobalNet21 was held on the 25th November with more than 30 members and debaters at Seoul Club in Jangchung-dong.

EAI GlobalNet21 Founding Ceremony

With fifty participants, the founding ceremony of GlobalNet21 was held on Oct. 22 from 1:30 to 8:00 pm.

The 2nd ROK-U.S Dialogue 21

Dialogue 21, a conference where Korean lawmakers and U.S. figures staying in Korea have in-depth discussion about current Korea-U.S. foreign policy issues, was held for the second time on August 16th.

The Opening Ceremony of EAI

These are photos of EAI's opening ceremony, which was held on July 11th, 2002. EAI's board members, people from the academic circles and many other famous figures attended the ceremony.

Wisemen Roundtable - Soft Power in Northeast Asia

Public Lecture by Prof. Joseph S. Nye - Smart Power and the War on Terror

EAI and the Korea Foundation co-organized a public lecture given by Professor Joseph S. Nye on February 12th, 2008 at the Korean Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

The 5th Anniversary of EAI - Donation Night

On November 13th 2007, the 5th Anniversary of EAI Donation Night was successfully held at Novotel Ambassador Kangnam, Seoul.

Special Lecture Meeting - The Next Government

On October 19th, in celebration of the 5th Anniversary of EAI, a special lecture meeting was successfully held in FKI (Federation of Korean Industries) Hall.

The 3rd Mansfield Committee on U.S.-ROK Relations

EAI jointly held "The 3th Mansfield Committee on U.S.-ROK Relations Conference" (October 9th-11th) with Mansfield Foundation.

The List of Recent Recipients

Lists the recipients of EAI Fellowship, with their affiliations and project titles.

Friends of East Asia Institute

EAI Friend's Night ended successfully in Novotel Ambassador Gangnam on Nov. 16, 2005. At the beginning of the friend's night, The directors Ha Youngsun and Kim Kyungwon made a welcoming and a congratulatory speech.

Rising North Korean Threat Perception and Support for Korea-US Alliance

Since 2002, the EAI's Center for Public Opinion Research has been analyzing and assessing the Korean public's opinion on various security issues such as the Korea-U.S. alliance and the North Korean nuclear crisis.

EAI received grant from John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Robert Gallucci will leave Georgetown on June 30 and start at MacArthur the next day. Robert Gallucci will be the new president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Chicago-based organization announced today, in tapping the veteran Washington envoy and educator to head one of the nation's most prestigious philanthropies.

Economic Crisis Helps Lee in Poll

The JoongAng Ilbo and the East Asia Institute commissioned Hankook Research to survey 1,000 adults nationwide on Feb. 9 and 10 to mark the first anniversary of Lee��s presidential inauguration. Some 32.2 percent of those polled are satisfied with Lee��s performance, and 29.4 percent said they trust the government.

Korea-U.S. Ties Strengthened

When Lee��s predecessor, former President Roh Moo-hyun, was in office, Seoul and Washington often found themselves at odds on many key diplomatic issues, most prominently the transfer of wartime operational control from the U.S. forces in South Korea solely to South Korean military control and how to handle North Korea and its nuclear ambitions.

The Korea-Australia Connection

When I told my daughter that I was going to Australia, her first response was to say, ��Dad, please take lots of pictures of kangaroos.�� We are living in a time when we eat Australian beef, drink Australian wine and learn English in Australia, but in the imagination of our children, Australia is an animal kingdom of kangaroos and koalas.

People Trust Conglomerates rather than Political Parties

Koreans are least likely to trust political parties that do not represent public opinion, according to a joint survey by the JoongAng Ilbo and the East Asia Institute. They put their trust in conglomerates instead.

Seoul to Host World Constitutional Court Meeting

About 150 constitutional court judges and renowned scholars from around the world will gather in Seoul next month to explore the role of such courts and the separation of powers.

Negroponte's Speech Quoted Soft Power Survey

Protecting Park

Sixty years ago, Koreans voted for lawmakers who would establish the Constitution as if they were participating in an independence movement. The people must have felt the election was very important, as it was to re-establish the country 36 years after it lost its sovereignty.

China Trails U.S. in Asia

Korea��s Soft Power Edges that of China in New Poll

In a recent poll, Korea edged out its massive neighbor China in terms of soft power, a country��s ability to indirectly influence the behavior and interest of other countries through nonmilitary and noneconomic tools, such as culture or aid.

China Pursues Global Role in Six-party Talks

Following is the second in a series of articles on the relationship between South Korea and China, on the occasion of a May 27 summit between presidents Lee Myung-bak and Hu Jintao. - Ed.

Most Want Lee to Reconsider Giant New Canal

Nearly 70 percent of the respondents in a recent survey said they believe President Lee Myung-bak's plan to build a giant canal across the country needs to be "reconsidered or be scrapped altogether." Even the remaining 30 percent that agreed with the plan said it should be put into action "carefully" and only after first considering public opinion.

Social Contribution Enhances Competitiveness, Reputation

People at Yuhan-Kimberly, the nation's leading maker of health and hygiene products, believe that fulfilling social responsibilities is an investment that improves reputations and the generation of profits. "Many companies still regard social contributions as costs. They do not see this as investments," company vice president Lee Eun-wook said.

U.S. Image Improves after Years of Decline

The U.S. image abroad has begun to improve after worsening for years, but the United States is still viewed more negatively than the European Union, Brazil, China, India and Russia, said a BBC World Service survey released on Tuesday.

Both Soft, Hard Powers Needed for NK Denuclearization: Nye

Harvard Professor Joseph Nye, who pioneered the theory of "soft power," said that the resolution of the North Korea's nuclear weapons issue would require both soft and hard power.

Goliath's Game: U.S. Policy toward North Korea in Strategic Context

US policies toward North Korea under the Bush Administration are frequently critiqued for being insufficiently responsive to the ��real�� circumstances currently prevailing on the Korean Peninsula and in the East Asian region. This article argues that this critique is insufficient. The ideological and almost personal predilections driving the Bush Administration��s North Korea policy are not incidental shortcomings easily rectified. Rather, this orientation expresses the administration��s deeper ideational foundations. The Bush Administration��s North Korea policy is but one of many expressions of this foundation, the commitment to which impinges ��realistic�� US response to North Korea��s growing nuclear ambitions.

NGOs: A Powerful Force for Political Reform

This is the 27th article of a special series analyzing political changes in Korea. In cooperation with the Korean Political Science Association, we will offer in-depth analysis of Korea`s political development since the civilian uprising in June 1987. Participating in this special report are a group of professors teaching political science at major local universities. - Ed.

JEAS has been indexed and abstracted in SSCI

The Journal of East Asian Studies, a journal by EAI, has been ed for indexing by the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). JEAS is the first journal by a Korean independent institute to be indexed in SSCI, earning EAI international recognition for its distinguished research activities.

Assembly Polls could Continue the GNP Surge

Lee Myung-bak's landslide win in the presidential elections may have ushered in the era of the Grand National Party. The conservative party could win more than 60 percent of the National Assembly seats in the upcoming general election, an analysis of a joint survey conducted by the JoongAng Ilbo, SBS, the East Asia Institute and Hankook Research revealed.

Lee Myung-bak's Poll Ranking Remains High

With the presidential election less than two months away, the Grand National Party's Lee Myung-bak is maintaining a commanding lead in the latest public opinion poll conducted by the JoongAng Ilbo, SBS, East Asia Institute, and Hankook Research

GNP Candidates Lead Poll of Influential Politicians

With the presidential election six months away, Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye are the country's most influential politicians, a recent poll found. Former President Kim Dae-jung and President Roh Moo-hyun also ranked highly.

Voters are Changing Views, New Poll Finds

The survey, conducted by the JoongAng Ilbo, East Asia Institute, Hankook Research and Seoul Broadcasting System, sampled the views of 3,500 people in a telephone survey conducted from April 25 to 28. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.7 percent and a 95 percent confidence level.

South Korea's President Sags in Opinion Polls

SEOUL, South Korea — Bruised by South Korea��s cutthroat politics, bewildered by voters' rapidly changing concerns and battered mercilessly in the polls, President Roh Moo-hyun is limping toward the last year of his term.

Asians Comfortable With Rising China, But Still Want U.S. in Region

Asians Comfortable With Rising China, But Still Want U.S. in Region Despite Low Trust; Americans See China Catching Up With U.S. Economically But Don't Favor Trying to Stop It

Despite Charges, Hyundai Motor is Trusted Most

Although its chairman recently got out of jail, Hyundai Motor is the most trusted and influential group in South Korea, a joint survey by the JoongAng Ilbo and the East Asia Institute has revealed. The poll found that Korea's conglomerates topped the rankings in both categories, finishing ahead of even the court system. The Uri Party finished last in both.

Report Envisions a New Korea-U.S. Alliance by 2015

Seoul and Washington should finish the "comprehensive transformation," of their alliance by 2015 and build a "complex alliance," the East Asia Institute said in a report released yesterday in which 19 experts, including Kim Kyung-won, the former Korean ambassador to Washington, weighed in. The report was prepared over a two-year period. The Seoul-based think tank suggested the new alliance would broaden the scope of activity by the two countries, encompassing regions around the Korean Peninsula, but the basis for it would still be the defense of the peninsula.

Voters Will Think Presidentially as they Vote Locally in the Elections

Voters are more interested in the 2007 presidential race than the May 31 local elections, while the Uri Party continues to lose ground, a new poll has found. About 45 percent of voters said they will make their choices with next year��s presidential election in mind, the poll found. Of the people questioned, 649 said they voted for Roh Moo-hyun at the 2002 presidential election. Among them, only 252 said they will vote for an Uri Party candidate in the next presidential election. Of those who decided to withdraw their political backing for the Uri Party, 27 percent said they will support the Grand National Party, 10 percent the Democratic Party and 7 percent the Democratic Labor Party.

Poll Shows Wide Support for U.S. Trade Agreement

More than 60 percent of the public supports a free trade agreement with the United States, according to a recent public poll conducted by Joong Ang Ilbo, the East Asia Institute and Hankook Research. Supporters of both the governing and the major opposition parties voiced support for a deal with the United States, an issue that has stirred up controversy in Korea recently.

Coping with the North Korean Nuclear Problem: A South Korean Perspective

President Bush has stressed repeatedly that the greatest threat before human dignity is the possibility of secret and sudden attack with chemical or biological or nuclear weapons. The Bush administration is thus poised to channel all its energies into removing even the remotest possibility of ��WMD terrorism.�� The Bush administration considers the three gravest threats of nuclear terrorism to be 1) lax control over and the consequent leakage of nuclear materials from the former Soviet republics, where 90 percent of the world��s total nuclear elements are stored; 2) the possible sale of nuclear-related materials by rogue states such as North Korea and Iran; and 3) terrorist organizations�� persistent attempts to procure nuclear materials.1 In this light, the U.S. policy toward the North Korean nuclear problem is aimed at neutralizing North Korea��s attempts to become a nuclear state while preventing North Korea from transferring nuclear weapons or materials, if any, to other states or terrorists.

GlobalNet 21: Meeting 8

Hegemony Not China's Aim, Envoy to Seoul Says

China will not pursue world supremacy, the nation��s envoy to Korea, Ning Fukui, has assured Koreans. He was speaking at a forum, "China's Foreign Policy in the 21st Century," hosted by the East Asia Institute in Seoul on Monday. Mr. Ning said the rise of China��s economy and military would "never be a threat to others."

Reading List Provides Tips to Roh Plans as President

President-elect Roh Moo-hyun once said that whenever he is confronted with a question he cannot answer, he tends to look for answers by reading books related to his concerns. Even now, Mr. Roh said, he reads before he steps out of his home in the early morning, in the evening and on weekends.

General Overview of the Global Net21

EAI Global Net21 (tentative name) was launched with groups of experts from various fields of studies to overcome the difficulties that our society confronts today. The initial purpose of this gathering is to successfully deal with polarized ideology and efforts to politicize issues of diplomacy and security. The following notes detail this gathering.

Koreans Cast Wary Eye on World

A new poll suggests that a few traces of Korea��s history as a "hermit kingdom" still linger in modern South Korea. The poll suggests that the general public here has a strong distrust of neighboring countries and favors the acquisition of nuclear weapons to deter outside pressure.

Koreans Sober about Unification

Korea, U.S. World Views Converge

While the world views of both South Koreans and Americans are remarkably similar, they also differ on key issues that could pose serious future problems in their otherwise warm views toward each other, according to unprecedented parallel surveys. Sponsored by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and the East Asia Institute of South Korea, the surveys found that the United States public may be far less prepared to support US military intervention in the event of a North Korean attack on the South than most South Koreans believe they are.

Poll Shows Koreans Back Presence of U.S.

A majority of Koreans say they believe the U.S. military presence in their country benefits national security and that any withdrawal of U.S. forces should be gradual, a recent poll shows. In the same poll, Americans named Korea as the country that needs their troops the most. The poll was conducted in the United States by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and in Korea by the East Asia Institute. Their results were released yesterday. The Korean institute surveyed 1,000 Korean adults and the Chicago council surveyed 1,645 Americans of which 450 are opinion leaders who are politicians and scholars.

Remain Committed to Alliance, but Views Differ

Coalition Idea Not a Popular One

Sanctions on North to Deter Investment

Most foreign businesses in South Korea would freeze their investments if the United States imposes economic sanctions or takes military measures against North Korea, a recent survey indicates. According to the Seoul-based East Asia Institute, 63 percent of the 169 leaders of foreign companies in South Korea it surveyed said they would withdraw or halt their foreign direct investments here if Washington establishes a naval and air blockade of North Korea. And if Washington takes military action, 73 percent said they would halt their investments.

Reactions to Security Threats

A think tank's survey of businesses in South Korea shows that both foreign and local entrepreneurs would scale back their business operations in response to North Korea security threats, but local businesses are more sensitive to such warnings. The East Asia Institute in Seoul found that only 13 percent of the 169 foreign CEOs and executives it polled said they will freeze their investment activities if the UN Security Council takes up the North Korean nuclear issue.

Poll Finds Less Trust in Blue House than in Conglomerates

Korea Backgrounder: How the South Views Its Brother From Another Planet

A strong majority of South Koreans agree on the need to engage North Korea but there is no consensus on the most effective means. As the debate over how to deal with the northern brother intensifies, deep fissures are forming among the public. Significant generational and political shifts have transformed views in ways that could undermine U.S. policy in the region unless Washington develops a better understanding of the situation in Seoul. The generation that lived through the Korean War is being supplanted by the generation that led the fight for democratisation in the 1980s. Younger South Koreans are less easily swayed by appeals to anti-communism and less reflexively pro-American. They are more accustomed to prosperity and less fearful of North Korea, and thus more willing to shake up their country's system in the name of economic and social justice. They are more progressive and nationalistic in their views, although few are true followers of Pyongyang's ideology. This generation, now in its 30s and 40s, will dominate South Korean politics for years to come.

Europe Influence Seen as Positive

Changing South Korean Public Opinion on the US

During the last half century, the ROK-US alliance has been considered a great success. The alliance has served as an effective security framework to deter North Korean aggression. In addition, it has helped to create a stable environment for economic dynamism and democratic consolidation within South Korea. Yet, the alliance now lie at the crossroads. The change in the global and regional strategic environment in Northeast Asia, the increasing perception gap between the United States and South Korea about threats from North Korea, and policy divergence between the two governments have produced tension, fissure, and mutual distrust between the two allies. Therefore, there are mounting doubts and pessimism about the future of the U.S.-ROK alliance.

The Park Chung Hee Era

The Park Chung Hee Era, the joint effort of EAI and Asia Center in Harvard University, is the first piece in a series of "Research on Korean Politics."

The Rebirth of Modern Korea: The Park Era

The Park Chung Hee Era, the joint effort of EAI and Asia Center in Harvard University, is the first piece in a series of "Research on Korean Politics."

The Developmental State Revisited: Political Regime, Industry Characteristics, Policy Networks and Leadership

The Park Chung Hee Era, the joint effort of EAI and Asia Center in Harvard University, is the first piece in a series of ��Research on Korean Politics.��

American Public Attitudes on Korea After 9.11

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, it was clear that 9.11 had a profound impact on the American mood. Americans had been shocked by their own vulnerability to unconventional and faraway threats.

After the Developmental State in East Asia

The workshop "After the Developmental State in East Asia" was hosted at Hilton Hotel on March 27, 2004 by East Asia Institute in association with BK21 of Korea University.

America in Question

The workshop was the first in a series of three meetings on "Rebuilding American Security" funded by the Ford Foundation and organized by Paul Evans, Acting Director, Liu Institute in cooperation with partner institutions in Asia.

Effectively Controlling Infectious Disease Outbreaks

In the aftermath of the SARS epidemic much was made of China��s effective efforts at disease control and prevention. China��s perceived success in controlling SARS stands in stark contrast with Taiwan��s troubled response to its own SARS outbreak. Why does Taiwan, a geographically small, yet densely populated country with a democratic government, wealthy and modern knowledge-based economy, fail to effectively respond to SARS whereas big, heavily populated, relatively under-developed and soft authoritarian China succeeds?

Historical Disputes and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia

Historical disputes are central to current relations among Northeast Asian nations and promoting historical reconciliation will be critical not only to ensuring regional peace and security but also protecting American interests in this important region. The primary aim of the article is to explore whether the U.S. has any role to play in the process of historical reconciliation in Northeast Asia.

Veterans and the Failure of Martial Citizenship in China

War-Like History or Diplomatic History?

East Asian countries have been engaged in disputes over history. While their historical contentions have caused suspicions and frictions among them, I argue that they have also served as a medium of dialogue that helps establish a common understanding about the individual countries�� contemporary reality and future direction. Historical contentions contribute to such a dialogue if and only if regional actors recognize each other as legitimate participants in a dialogue about the salient past and when they contend over the past within a common framework of meaning, can contentions over history contribute to the creation of a regional public sphere.

Developmental States and Environmental Limits

Government response to environmental problems is one of the key issues of our global era. Theorists differ on whether the state will respond voluntarily or as a result of popular pressure. In the rapid growth periods of the East Asian developmental states and societies – Japan (1970), Korea and Taiwan (1980s) and China (currently) – central government ministries guided growth and managed society toward that end.

The Balance of Power and State Interests in International Relations

A central debate in the field of international relations concerns the extent of balancing behavior. Kenneth Waltz��s confident assertion that ��hegemony leads to balance,�� and has done so ��through all of the centuries we can contemplate��—is perhaps the default proposition in international relations. 1 Yet in recent years, the balancing proposition has come under increasing empirical and theoretical scrutiny. Empirically, the absence of obvious balancing against the United States in the post-Cold War era led to a scholarly debate about why that might be the case.2 Theoretically, advances by scholars working in both the rationalist and constructivist traditions have pointed out the myriad of ways in which state strategies depend on more than purely the distribution of power.3

War and Historical China: Problematizing Unification and Division in Chinese History

This paper examines the unity paradigm which holds that unification has been the normal and natural course of Chinese history, and that unification has nurtured stability and prosperity while division has generated chaos and sufferings. I highlight that the Chinese term for China, ��zhongguo,�� originally meant ��central states�� in plurality. I develop a rigorous definition of unification and show that zhongguo was more often divided than unified.

Estimating the DPRK��s Nuclear Intentions and Capacities: A Comparative Foreign Policy Approach

This paper develops a novel assessment of the nuclear program of the Democratic People��s Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known as North Korea. Using a theory-driven, comparative foreign policy approach, the paper undermines two common assumptions about the DPRK nuclear threat: first, that its nuclear intentions are a rational response to the external environment; and second, that this heavily industrialized state with long nuclear experience must have developed enough technical capacity by now to go nuclear whenever it pleases.

Southeast Asian Religious Organizations and Democratic Consolidation

Religious organizations have been largely left out of the studies of East Asian democratic transition and consolidation. This paper introduces a conceptual framework for the study of the role of religious organizations in the democratic consolidation of East Asian societies and provides case studies for consideration in Indonesia and Thailand, two countries with young and challenged democracies. The case studies concern how Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah, Indonesia��s two largest Muslim organizations, and the unorthodox Santi Asoke Buddhist organization in Thailand, under the lay leadership of former general Chamlong Srimuang, are possible agents for the preservation and deepening of democratic practices as these countries confront forces that threaten their democratic consolidation.

Varieties of Capitalism in Asia: the State, Corporate Governance, and Social Policy

EAI, The Education and Research Corps for East Asian Studies, University of California, San Diego

Future of North Korea Panel: Meeting 7

The Presidency in Korea, Vol 1

This book is based on the EAI��s research program aimed aims to release a report on redefining presidential roles and restructuring presidential power. This research is designed to gather knowledge and wisdom in society and political leaders�� experiences of conducting state affairs, and to integrate them into theoretical approaches.

The Presidency in Korea, Vol 2

This is the product of several seminars with the former and the incumbent prime ministries, cabinet members and presidential secretaries during the initial phase of the research on redefining presidential roles and restructuring presidential power.

Evaluation of 2002 Presidential Election and Tasks of Roh MooHyun Government

This book is based on analysis of the results of an on-line survey conducted with about 2000 experts enrolled in Issue Today on November 2002. 253 persons responded. They included professors, researchers with doctorate, executives in companies, members of parties, journalists, and high-ranking officials.

Dilemma and Choice of Roh MooHyun Government

This book is based on analysis of the results of a survey conducted with the public and experts on January 2003 before the inauguration of Roh MooHyun. The survey of public opinion was conducted to 1200 citizens with 75 questions and the survey of expert opinion to 399 persons with 22 questions.

Political Reform in Korea: Election System and Political Parties

In order to overcome the lack of policy competition among parties in Korean politics, it is necessary to establish a blue print aimed at successful institutional reform of election, party and the National Assembly, all of which constitute the core of democratic politics. The EAI research team endeavors to comprehensively address the existing theoretical and empirical discussion about institutional reform of election, party and Assembly, and integrate a policy-relevant alternative.

Political Reform in Korea

This book is the product of several seminars with the former and the incumbent prime ministries, cabinet members and the National Assemblymen during the initial phase of the research for political reform. The EAI research team endeavors to comprehensively address the existing theoretical and empirical discussion about institutional reform of election, party and Assembly, and integrate a policy-relevant alternative.

Legislative Reform in Korea

We assume that every member of the National Assembly is concerned about the number of votes obtained. And we all know good policy is good for country. But every good policy does not always contributes the vote share.

Between Compliance and Conflict

This book examines the responses of U.S. power in the two areas of the world where U.S. primacy was first successfully consolidated: East Asia and Latin America. The U.S. has faced no comparably powerful challengers to the exercise of its power in Latin America for much of the past century.

Korea's Grand Strategy for a New Century: Weaving a Network State

Making Democracy Work in South Korea: Reform for Economic Prosperity

Korean-American Alliance: A Vision and a Roadmap

North Korean Nuclear Crisis and Peace on the Korean Peninsula

Korean Politics and National Identity

2020 China Risk: Long-Term Forecast for the Chinese Economy and the Risk Analysis

Power and Security in Northeast Asia: Shifting Strategies

Changing Korean Voters: Analysis of the 2006 Korean Local Election Panel Studies

Presidential Transition in Korea

Constitutional Reform and Decentralization: A Road to Democratic Deepening

Korea-US Security Partnership: Institutional Transformation and Renovation

Changing Korean Voters 2: Analysis of the 2007 Korean Presidential Election Panel Studies

East Asian Community: Myth and Reality

Party Politics in East Asia: Citizens, Elections, and Democratic Development

The Art of Survival: A History of the British Conservative Party

Comparing South Korean and American Public Opinion and Foreign Policy

Relations between the United States and South Korea have entered a crucial period. For more than fifty years, the two countries have shared a strategic alliance that has helped stabilize Northeast Asia and ensure the peace between North and South Korea. Recently, however, strains have developed in the relationship over disputes on how to resolve key issues of concern to both countries. Sharp differences have emerged on the North Korean nuclear threat, with South Korea stressing the continuation of its ��Sunshine Policy�� of seeking to build warmer relations with North Korea and resolve the crisis through negotiations.

Soft Power in Asia: Results of a 2008 Multinational Survey of Public Opinion

China Still Lags Behind U.S. in Influence, Survey Shows

Chinese Beam on South Korea in Survey of Regional Attitudes

The East Asia Institute in Korea and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs released yesterday a survey of attitudes in several East Asian countries, concentrating on the emergence of two new economic powerhouses in the region, China and India.

Living Under US Leadership

The East Asia Institute, Korea (hereafter EAI) plans to organize its international conference jointly with Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, United States (hereafter CCFR) and CIDE, Mexico (hereafter CIDE) in Seoul, Korea, in August 2005.