Browsing Program of Asian Studies by Creation Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Money Does Grow on Trees: Analyzing the Nexus of Forestry Crime and Money Laundering
(Georgetown University, 2019)How effective are anti-money laundering approaches to combat rampant illegal logging and forest destruction in Southeast Asia. In 2017, every second across the world, an area of forest more than the size of a football field ... -
A Lilliputian Tethers Gulliver: State Governments in Taiwan’s Foreign Policy Towards the US
(Georgetown University, 2019)Despite severing official ties in 1979, Taiwan’s relationship with the United States remains robust. However, little research has been done into the methods Taiwan employs to maintain the support of the United States, which ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Romantic Love and Free Marriage in Taiwan under Japanese Rule: Writings from Taiwan Youth, 1920-1921
(Georgetown University, 2019)One of the remarkable effects of the appointment of Den Kenjirō 田健治郎 (1855-1930) as the first civilian Governor-General of Taiwan in 1919 was the establishment of the first Taiwanese-owned newspapers and journals, which ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Non-Nuclear Threats to Nuclear Deterrence and Stability: The Case of South Korea
(Georgetown University, 2020)The United States’ most vulnerable allies in East Asia are beginning to rethink their security strategies. Historically, “nuclear umbrella” states in East Asia, or major non-nuclear U.S. allies who are threatened by the ... -
An Exploitable Theory: Thucydides' Trap Model Perceived by the Chinese Government
(Georgetown University, 2020)This thesis examines the model of Thucydides' Trap and its effect on current international relations. Answering the question that why China and the United States, two supposed parties in Thucydides' Trap model, react ... -
"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 ... -
Oil as a Strategic Resource: Impact of the 1973 Oil Crisis on the Korean Peninsula
(Georgetown University, 2020)The 1973 oil crisis caused more significant economic fluctuations in the economic performance of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) compared to that of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). Many scholars ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Post-Tiananmen: Authoritarian China’s Human Rights Flexibility
(Georgetown University, 2020)The human rights record of the People’s Republic of China has long been the subject of debate over the past few decades. The dichotomy of this controversy is crystal-clear: While the international human rights community, ... -
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 ...
