Browsing Program of Asian Studies by Title
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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 ... -
Beyond Realism: A Psychological Approach to Understanding Cambodia-China Relations and Its Implications for ASEAN Solidarity
(Georgetown University, 2019)The rise of China has brought about changes in the balance of power in Southeast Asia, and the realist approach to foreign policy cannot explain why some Southeast Asian countries are balancing the increasing economic and ... -
Brunei's Preference for British Protection: Ontological Insecurity after the 1962 Rebellion
(Georgetown University, 2015)Brunei has historically relied on Britain for protection from internal and external threats. Even today, there is a battalion of Gurkhas and British officers resident in Brunei. This research paper seeks to explain Brunei’s ... -
"By Means of Sports": U.S.-Japan Baseball Exchange and the Construction of Post-War Japanese Identity
(Georgetown University, 2020)Scholarship has recognized that a shared passion for baseball between the United States and Japan helped facilitate reconciliation between the two states after World War II, but not enough focus has been put on the role ... -
Cautious Cooperation: Chinese Perspectives of U.S.-China Crisis Management
(Georgetown University, 2021)Crisis management is but one example of U.S.-China security cooperation that has been a significant factor in U.S. strategic thinking on the Asia-Pacific region. Most English-language studies of U.S.-China crisis management ... -
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 ... -
China's Good Muslims: The Hui
(Georgetown University, 2018)In this paper, I answer why the People’s Republic of China (PRC) allows Hui Muslims relative freedom to practice and participate in religious activities, despite the Chinese Communist Party’s wariness of religion–particularly ... -
China’s Behavior in Maritime Dispute with its Neighbors: The Double-edged Sword Model
(Georgetown University, 2015)This paper presents the “double-edged sword model” as a theoretical explanation for China’s puzzling behavior in maritime disputes with its neighbors. This paper argues that two factors are salient in determining a state’s ... -
China’s Decision to Deploy HYSY-981 in the South China Sea: Bureaucratic Politics with Chinese Characteristics
(Georgetown University, 2015)This paper sheds light on developing a hybrid analytical construct by combining Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) theory and modifications which are based on China. It employs the bureaucratic politics model to China’s ... -
The Chinese Communist Party’s Sensitivity to Legitimacy and its Rush for Hydropower
(Georgetown University, 2015)This paper seeks to explain why China suddenly sped up its hydropower development on trans-boundary rivers, despite neighboring countries and environmental activists’ opposition and the fact that it did not have any ... -
Chinese Investments in Africa: What's Driving the Surge?
(Georgetown University, 2023)As history has shown, competition between global and regional powers almost certainly spills over into neighboring countries. Middle and smaller powers become arenas for direct or proxy competition. The U.S.-China competition ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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Dollars Speak Louder than Words: Chinese Assimilation Policy in Tibet and Why U.S. Responses Are Ineffective
(Georgetown University, 2023)Contradictions and internal tensions have plagued the Chinese government's sovereignty-over-Tibet agenda since the beginning of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) 1950 invasion ... -
The Door Is Closed, but Not Locked: China's VPN Policy
(Georgetown University, 2017)This paper attempts to explain why China still allow some people to use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to bypass China’s heavily guarded Internet content censorship system, despite the assumption that the free flow of ... -
Double or Nothing: How the Chinese Have Been Stealing Russian Technology and Why the Russians May Continue to Provide Opportunities
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Dynamic Institutionalization: The Foundations of Japan's Radioactive Problem
(Georgetown University, 2018)This thesis examines Japan’s policies of implementing a closed nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear hedging. Many scholars have argued that Japan specifically pursues closed fuel cycle development in order to maintain the ... -
Ethno-Demographic Dynamics of the Rohingya-Buddhist Conflict
(Georgetown University, 2016)Ethno-demographic grievances define the conflict between Buddhist and Rohingya-Muslim populations in the Rakhine State of Myanmar. Nationalistic Buddhist leaders, such as the controversial monk Ashin Wirathu, maintain that ... -
Explaining Cambodia’s Foreign Policy: The Importance of Domestic Factors and Sino-Cambodia Relations on ASEAN
(Georgetown University, 2020)This paper studies the Cambodia decision to block the ASEAN Foreign Minister Statement from supporting the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s reward to the Philippines in the Philippines v China 2016 case on their disputed ...
