Browsing Program of Asian Studies by Title
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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 ... -
Fishing in Troubled Waters: China, Turkey, and the Eastern Mediterranean
(Georgetown University, 2022)The article seeks to explain the conspicuous lack of alignment and mutual support between Turkey and China on their respective regional maritime disputes. A comparison of the maritime disputes between Turkey and its neighbors ... -
Forming an Abode of Peace: An Assessment of Brunei’s Role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) from 1984-2020
(Georgetown University, 2021)How can small states reorder power relations to survive in the international system? Using a model inspired by the classical realism of Hans Morgenthau, this thesis argues that through the formation and maintenance of ... -
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 ... -
The Impact of Local Federalism with Chinese Characteristics on the Outcomes of Hu Jintao's Pro-Rural Policies
(Georgetown University, 2017)Former Chinese President Hu Jintao launched campaigns to promote a more “scientific” development between 2002 and 2012 in order to build a “harmonious society”, indicating his determination to shift toward a more equitable, ...
