Announcement

Selected Scholars for EAI Fellows Program 2011-12

  • 2011-11-30
The East Asia Institute is pleased to announce the selection result of “Fellows Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia” for the academic year 2011-2012, with generous support from the Japan Foundation, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange of Taiwan, and YBM/KIS, an education institute of Korea. The EAI Fellows Program brings non-Asian based 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.

 

This year the Selection Committee, consisting of the representatives of the five Participating Institutions, chose five EAI Fellows. The following lists the five recipients of EAI Fellowship, with their affiliations and project titles.

 

Kai He, Assistant Professor, Utah State University

Topic: “Explaining China’s Foreign Policy Crisis Behavior after the Cold War

 

Hyon Joo Yoo, Assistant Professor, Trinity University

Topic: “Do Domestic Processes Prevent Balancing?: Comparative Analysis on Alliance Policies by Japan and South Korea”

 

Yu Zheng, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut

Topic: “Credibility and Flexibility: Institutions, Governance and Foreign Investment in China and India”

 

Peter Van Ness, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University

Topic: “Collapse of Moral Authority: A Comparison of Two Cases, Mao's China and George W. Bush's United States”

 

Thomas Berger, Associate Professor, Boston University

Topic: “Navigating a Sea of Troubles: The Rise of Tensions in Maritime Asia -- Implications for the US Alliance System”&

 

Each of the EAI Fellows visits East Asia for three weeks to present seminars and lectures, based on an unpublished article on current issues submitted solely for the purpose of the EAI Fellows Program, at two or more of the Participating Institutions: East Asia Institute in Seoul, Fudan University in Shanghai, Keio University in Tokyo, National Taiwan University in Taipei, and Peking University in Beijing.

 

For further information, please visit us online at Fellows Program, or contact fellowships@eai.or.kr.