Browsing Program of Asian Studies by Creation Date
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Romancing India, Reinventing Japan, Explaining Continuity in the India-Japan Partnership
(Georgetown University, 2013)Why did the Hatoyama Yukio administration in Japan continue to build its partnership with India, despite changes in policy toward the U.S. and China? This paper argues that continuity prevailed because partnership with ... -
Political Externalities of Free Trade Agreement
(Georgetown University, 2013)How much do political incentives play a role in free trade agreements (FTAs)? While political economists focused much on the interaction between state and market, they have paid scant attention to analyzing the role of ... -
The Korean War in Contemporary China: How and Why the Korean War Is Remembered as a Victory
(Georgetown University, 2013)In this thesis, I examine the historical memory of the Korean War, and why it is remembered as the victory that it is. Often referred to as "the War to Resist America and Aid Korean" (KangMei-YuanChao) in China, the Korean ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Modeling State Decisions to Pursue Nuclear Weapons
(Georgetown University, 2014)This paper addresses the puzzle of why states proliferate nuclear weapons, despite a widespread call for global nuclear disarmament and the high costs of non-compliance behavior that follow. Most existing research on the ... -
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 ... -
Double or Nothing: How the Chinese Have Been Stealing Russian Technology and Why the Russians May Continue to Provide Opportunities
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Massacre as Method: The National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims and China’s Drive for Regional Power
(Georgetown University, 2015)In December 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over China’s first state commemoration of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. The decision to hold this event, made months prior in February at the National People’s Congress ... -
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 ... -
Incentivizing Solidarity: the Kim Regime’s Employment of Mafia Tactics
(Georgetown University, 2016)With the predominance of seemingly continuous instability due to unconventional power shifts, devastating famines, and pervasive human rights violations, speculation of collapse within North Korea has abounded in 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 ... -
Analysis on the Driving Factors behind the 2000 Inter-Korea Summit
(Georgetown University, 2016)Though the Korean peninsula finally found itself to be liberated from the Japanese colonial rule as the World War II came to an end, Korea was divided and the division became more permanent as the peninsula went through ... -
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 ...
