Browsing Program of Asian Studies by Title
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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 ... -
Sex for Sale: The Role of Culture and Demand in Japan's Human Trafficking Industry
(Georgetown University, 2020)The international sex trafficking trade is a multi-billion-dollar enterprise that reaps enormous profits from the exploitation of the human body, where human beings become nothing more than a vendible good. Sex work is not ... -
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 ... -
Sino-Japanese Relations and the Security Dilemma
(Georgetown University, 2014)This thesis investigates Sino-Japanese security relations and evaluates the explanatory power of the security dilemma theory, which is often invoked in the argument concerning the bilateral relationship. Upon demonstrating ... -
Small State, Big Influence: China's North Korea Policy Dilemma
(Georgetown University, 2013)This article seeks to analyze why China is reluctant to significantly change its North Korea policy despite continued North Korean nuclear provocations that have hindered China's own strategic and security interests. The ... -
South Korean Democracy at Stake: How Close State-Business Relations Inhibit Democratic Development
(Georgetown University, 2018)As South Korea is considered a bastion of democracy in Asia, it is important to understand not just the country’s accomplishments, but the limitations of its system as well. In light of the impeachment of former President ... -
State-owned Enterprise Reforms in the New Era: The Recentralization Reform of Chinese High-speed Railway Industry
(Georgetown University, 2019)Chinese economic development has undergone significant changes in the past several decades. When China first joined the WTO and announced its “Going out” policy in the early 2000s, increasing the role of the market was ... -
Structural and Ideological Barriers that Perpetuate the Implementation Gap in South Korean Women’s Empowerment Policie
(Georgetown University, 2018)This thesis examines the structural and cultural barriers that perpetuate the implementation gap in South Korean women’s empowerment policies while asking the primary research question: despite having a strong women's ... -
Taiwan’s Purchases of U.S. Defense Equipment and the Impact of Offset Agreements
(Georgetown University, 2020)The government of Taiwan has an obligation to provide security from international threats. The credibility of security deterrence relies on the acquisition of modern defense equipment. Taiwan does not possess the resources ... -
The Center Cannot Hold: Explaining the Volatile Perception Towards the United States Among the South Korean Public, 2003-2008
(Georgetown University, 2023)From 2003 to 2008, South Korea experienced a unique period of volatile perception towards the United States. After an explosion of anti-American perception in 2002, citizens of South Korea continued to display a level of ... -
The China-South Korea relationship after the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) controversy: Diplomacy, Security, Economy, and Public Opinion areas
(Georgetown University, 2021)In 2015, the ROK-China was achieved the best diplomatic relations since 1992. However, with the US-China competition intensifying, the ROK-China relations experienced unprecedented deterioration with the THAAD controversy ... -
The Consequences of Confucius Institutes: Understanding the Opposition
(Georgetown University, 2018)Confucius Institutes (CIs) are Chinese public educational organizations that promote Chinese language and culture around the world. The Chinese government has invested over $1 billion in establishing 500 of these CIs in ... -
The Democratic Pressure: New Constraints on Japan's Military Buildup in the 21st Century
(Georgetown University, 2017)Why has the Abe administration maintained its defense spending at 1 percent of its GDP despite the deteriorating regional security environment, conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s willingness to play an active role ... -
The Economics of Cross Strait Instability: The Methods and Limits of China's Economic Coercion against Taiwan
(Georgetown University, 2020)This article examines the ways China employs economic coercion to influence Taiwan, and the limitations of these tactics in influencing Taiwan’s domestic politics. Although there is ample research conducted on the broader ... -
The Golden Key to South Korea’s Popular Culture’s Sensation in the West
(Georgetown University, 2023)Continuing my work from my senior thesis as an undergraduate at Princeton University this master’s thesis dives into the niche aesthetic of Hallyu. The purpose is to expose that at the most deconstructed level of the success ... -
The More Avid Historian? A Comparison between Kim Jong Il’s and Kim Jong Un’s Uses and Usage Rates of the Korean War as a Heuristic in Korean Central News Agency, 1998-2018
(Georgetown University, 2020)Purpose: While many scholars have traced how the Kim regimes merged the Korean War into North Korea’s national narrative, no one has conducted a systematic study of how the Kims subsequently wielded the civil war story to ... -
The Threshold of Jihadism: Securing Patronage in Southern Thailand and the Philippines
(Georgetown University, 2019)The issue of southern Thailand becoming the next battleground for international jihadist terrorist organizations—such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or Jemaah Islamiyah—has reemerged as a prominent ... -
Transparency and Opacity: The U.S.-Chinese Strategic Relationship
(Georgetown University, 2015)As the United States has pursued a strategy of engagement in response to China's rise, bilateral relations have steadily increased with one notable exception—the U.S.-Chinese security relationship. In many respects, this ... -
Victim and Accomplice? The Role of Overseas Chinese in China’s Foreign Interference Activities in the Xi Jinping Era
(Georgetown University, 2021)Drawing upon previous diaspora studies’ findings and a wide range of primary data including government policy documents, archives, and news articles, this paper first provides an overview of the history and origins of ... -
Why Effective Government Interventions Can Lead to Efficient Market Reform in China
(Georgetown University, 2017)This paper argues that the current Chinese government believes market reform has the best chance to succeed if it is gradual, experimental and aided by government interventions. In 2016, for the first time in over a decade, ...
