Browsing Program of Asian Studies by Creation Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Rule Without Law: China's Economic Slowdown and Crackdown on Labor Activism
(Georgetown University, 2017)In late 2015, the Chinese Communist Party arrested scores of labor activists and rights defense lawyers and revoked the licenses of labor NGOs. While many scholars have labeled the attack on the labor movement as a part ... -
Protecting Defense: Making Sense of Japan's Post-WWII Arms Procurement Policies
(Georgetown University, 2017)This research explores the root of the conventional practices of sumiwake in Japan’s post-war defense industry and procurement policies, which have minimized domestic competition between firms thus rendering the industry ... -
Rationale for Revisionism? Neoclassical Realism and China’s New Maritime Assertiveness
(Georgetown University, 2017)The renewed tension between China and other claimant states over disputed territories in the East and South China Seas in the past few years has generated widespread concern about China’s increasing assertiveness in ... -
The Importance of Chinese Vernacular Architecture in Explaining the Decline of Rujiasixiang in the People's Republic of China
(Georgetown University, 2017)An overlooked factor that explains for China’s widening moral vacuum and waning rujiasixiang (Confucian-Mencian thought) is the destruction of Chinese vernacular architecture, for architectural space not only shapes social ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Compromise for Control: Understanding North Korea's Private Market Economy
(Georgetown University, 2018)Free market enterprise embodies values of independent thinking and self-reliance, which are antithetical to the North Korean regime’s ideological values inherent to Marxist-Leninism. However, in recent years, the Kim Jong-un ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Japan’s Refugee Policy: Sharing the Burden of Human Security
(Georgetown University, 2018)This thesis asks: why does Japan accept a low number of refugees despite its responsibility to contribute to global peace as a member of G7, its willingness to participate in other forms of humanitarian assistance, and its ...
