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A NEW GENERATION OF CHINESE LEADERS: PERCEPTIONS AND COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF VALUES
(Georgetown University, 2015)
The resurgence of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism in the context of Chinese leadership values has emerged as a nucleus of a new generation of leaders. The once-in-a-decade transition of China's leadership in 2013 ...
North Korea's Transnational Media Commodity Network
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Why are there are increasing numbers of North Koreans inside the country willing to consume and share illegal foreign media over the last ten years, despite greater risk of capital punishment due to tighter border controls ...
The Alliance Dilemma: A Stronger Japan and Regional Stability
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This paper is an attempt to explain the United States's puzzling silence on Japan's potential development of autonomous strike capability. I argue that this is due to the U.S.'s fear of entrapment vis-à-vis Japan, which ...
The Impact of the Internet on Chinese Nationalism: The Emergence of Contentious Spaces Onlines
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This paper seeks to answer the question of why anti-Japanese nationalism related to historical memory of World War II has grown at such a rapid pace among Chinese internet-users despite several elements commonly understood ...
Myanmar's Rohingya Refugees: The Search for Human Security
(Georgetown University, 2014)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the human rights violations against one minority group in Myanmar - the Rohingya - by the majority Buddhist Rakhinese population with central government support, in order to call the ...
Korean Perception on Defense Cooperation with Japan
(Georgetown University, 2017)
The Republic of Korea and Japan are two most important security allies of the United States in East Asia, yet they lack substantial defense cooperation between each other. This thesis looks at the current condition of ...
THE COMFORT WOMEN AGREEMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE MOTIVATIONS THAT LED TO PARK GEUN-HYE’S ACQUIESCENCE
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Since normalization in 1965, bilateral relations between Japan and South Korea have been perennially mired in historical acrimony. However, in December 2015, the South Korean and Japanese Foreign Ministries consummated ...
Literary Autonomy in North Korea: Authority, Agency, and the Art of Control
(Georgetown University, 2017)
What explains the absence of a popular uprising in a country that, despite isolation, has experienced an infiltration of information over the years; despite lethargy, has felt the emergence of class divisions; and, despite ...
Sherlock in Pyongyang
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Since 2000, the British Council, under the auspices of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office has run an English Language Teacher Training Programme in Pyongyang, North Korea. Its primary aim is to train North Korean teachers ...
Sanctions Evasion and the Emergence of the Informal Economy in North Korea
(Georgetown University, 2017)
This paper seeks to answer core questions about the development of the informal economy. More specifically, it asks why the leadership in North Korea allows informal economic activities to continue despite the fact that ...