Browsing Program of Asian Studies by Creator "Cha, Victor"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Belt and Road: Chinese Security Politics in Central Asia
(Georgetown University, 2022)China’s engagement in the Central Asian republics after the fall of the Soviet Union and developing into a main area of investments under the Belt & Road Initiative reflects China security objectives later developing into ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Double or Nothing: How the Chinese Have Been Stealing Russian Technology and Why the Russians May Continue to Provide Opportunities
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ...
