http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from Shorenstein APARCen-usPublic domainhttp://aparc.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/60http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1779The Asia Health Policy Program has launched a new working paper series on health and demographic change in Asia with a working paper on informal caregiving for the elderly in South Korea.]]>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1779?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1777On December 4, Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima was the last of four films to be screened at the Cubberley Auditorium as part of the Shorenstein APARC Divided Lenses: Film and War Memories in Asia series. Eastwood discussed the film following the screening.]]>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1777?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1771Demographic change and long-term care in Japan, chronic non-communicable disease in China, national health insurance in South Korea, TB control in North Korea, pharmaceutical policy in the region and global safety in drug supply chains -- these are some of the topics explored in a new Stanford course, "Health and Healthcare Systems in East Asia."]]>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1771?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1770Forbes magazine spoke with SPRIE co-director William Miller, one of seven "graybeard entrepreneurs" consulted for perspectives on the financial crisis.]]>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1770?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1757South Korea's new president, Lee Myung-bak, has taken a hardline approach in his dealings with North Korea, effectively signaling the end of former president Kim Dae Jung's once-vaunted "Sunshine Policy." Relations between the two nations have desintegrated in recent months. But North Korea experts suggest the the DPRK's growing belligerence toward the South actually follows a consistent pattern that may even help the United States in future negotiations.]]>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1757?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1761In an interview with National Public Radio, Shorenstein APARC Associate Director %people1% discussed the advantages and disadvantages of seeking a grand bargain with North Korea to end its nuclear weapons ambitions.]]>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1761?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1747David Straub, the acting director of Korean Studies Program, argues that Obama administration will finally give diplomacy a chance to deal with the North Korean nuclear problem. He stresses that Senator Obama understands the difficulties of dealing with North Korea and will proceed carefully. If North Korea does not respond to this more nuanced American approach, he concludes, the international community is likely to be more supportive of U.S. efforts to constrain North Korean behavior.]]>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1747?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1744"With the current affairs such as the financial crisis and the Iraq War," %people1%, the director of Shorenstein APARC, says "the new Obama administration may not have the North Korea issues on its priority list for a while. Lee Myung-bak administration, meanwhile, is urged to revisit the workable policies of the past as well as to initiate the pragmatic diplomacy towards the collaboration between South Korea and the U.S."]]>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1744?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1743Professor Phillip Lipscy discusses the current international financial crisis and provides insight for future reforms. "The IMF and World Bank should be reformed to better reflect the interests and concerns of rising economic powers. Voting shares need to be further redistributed to reflect underlying economic realities. Decisionmaking rules should be modified to give greater weight or agenda-setting authority to regional actors - the US may have a strong interest in loans to Mexico, but Japan may have a greater stake in Indonesia. Assignment of the top positions should be made truly competitive. Core functions should be decentralized - both institutions are headquartered in Washington, impeding employment of top talent from Asia and limiting intellectual exchange."]]>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1743?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1742An international conference on "Divided Memories and Reconciliation: History Text Books and War" was held on September 29, at Northeast Asia History Foundation in Korea. The first part of Divided Memories Project, a three-year joint project of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Northeast Asia History Foundation, is to study and analyze how high school history text books in Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and US describe the violent history between the 1931 Manchurian Incident to the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty, as the textbooks serve as the master narrative that composes the historical memory of a nation.]]>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1742?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1733Dr. Marcus Feldman of Stanford's Biology department discussed the sex-ratio imbalance and gender studies in China in the first of three colloquia on "The Implications of Demographic Change in China," co-sponsored by the Asia Health Policy Program and the Stanford China Program.]]>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1733?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1727Will the 2008 election bring dramatic change in U.S. Korea policy? %people1%, the associate director of research at APARC says "There are important differences of emphasis in the approaches of both candidates, but the bottom line is that both men are likely to pick up where President George W. Bush leaves off."]]>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1727?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1713Kyung Yoon, Vice Chairman of Heidrick & Struggles and SPRIE Advisory Board member, has been selected by the Society of Asian Women Leaders to receive their Woman of the Year "Guidling Light Award for Leadership."]]>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1713?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1705%people1%, associate director of the Korean Studies Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, has proposed an oral history project to flesh out the story of U.S-Korean relations. "While books may last forever, one 'non-renewable' source of information and wisdom is the oral history of our forerunners," says Straub. " When our elders and predecessors pass away, we bitterly regret that we did not ask them more about their experiences and insights."]]>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1705?http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1650Over more than six decades, the partnership between the United States and the Republic of Korea has been subject to many stresses and strains, from the Korean War to coping with the challenge of North Korea's nuclear ambitions. More recently, the democratization of South Korea has opened the alliance to much greater public scrutiny and pressures from an active and mobilized Korean public. Managing this strategic alliance in an era of democracy has been a focus of the research work on Korea conducted by FSI's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.]]>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://aparc.stanford.edu/news/1650?