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China's Crackdown on North Korean Refugees: North Korean Provocations Intensify Border Control
(Georgetown University, 2018)
What domestic and external conditions explain why the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at times intensifies its crackdown on North Korean border crossers? With the 1986 bilateral repatriation agreement between the PRC and ...
A Compromise for Control: Understanding North Korea's Private Market Economy
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Free market enterprise embodies values of independent thinking and self-reliance, which are antithetical to the North Korean regime’s ideological values inherent to Marxist-Leninism. However, in recent years, the Kim Jong-un ...
Contemporary Chinese Environmental Governance and Regime Legitimacy
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This paper aims to explain the causal variable which motivates the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) environmental policies up to 2016. In the wake of environmental degradation with an ongoing transition from an export-based ...
Becoming Electable: The Causes of the Successes and Failures of Opposition Parties in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
(Georgetown University, 2018)
In the past twenty years, opposition parties in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have been experiencing different levels of success in elections, despite similarities in the three countries’ institutions (particularly the ...
Historical Memory and Domestic Civic Trust in Japan-South Korea Security Relations
(Georgetown University, 2018)
South Korea and Japan were unable to implement the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) or pursue an Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) in 2012 despite recent violent provocations from ...