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“Alternative” Regional Institutions in Asia? A Cautionary Note
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2015)GJAA covers topics pertinent to Central, Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia, combining policy prescriptions, academic research, and pedagogical insights on Asia. -
Will Taipei Be the Next Hong Kong? Democratic Institutions and Taipei’s Future as a Global City
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2015)GJAA covers topics pertinent to Central, Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia, combining policy prescriptions, academic research, and pedagogical insights on Asia. -
The End Game for the Trans-Pacific Partnership
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2015)GJAA covers topics pertinent to Central, Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia, combining policy prescriptions, academic research, and pedagogical insights on Asia. -
China’s Dual Neighborhood Diplomacy and Indonesia’s New Pragmatic Leadership: How Can ASEAN Preserve its Centrality in a New Challenging Dynamic?
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2015)GJAA covers topics pertinent to Central, Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia, combining policy prescriptions, academic research, and pedagogical insights on Asia. -
Abe’s Choice for Japan: Thriving Migration without Immigration
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2018)It may be tempting to think that Japan’s demographic trends would provide an incentive for adopting major immigration policy reforms, but so far, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has chosen to tread carefully, calling for massive ... -
How to Get Over a Border
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2018)Safety and survival cannot be guaranteed in getting over borders. The caveat is dependent on person and place: depending on the citizenship and country of residence of an actor in question, some of the techniques elaborated ... -
Different Hmong Political Orientations and Perspectives on the Thailand-Laos Border
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2018)Borders mean different things to different peoples. By now this is widely understood within academia, but there is still the propensity to assume shared essentialized perceptions of borders amongst groups based on ... -
The Chinese Communists Find Religion: The Struggle for the Selection of the Next Dalai Lama
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2018)Lhamo Thondup was just two years old when he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. The Great Thirteenth, as he is popularly known, had died in Lhasa in 1933 at the age of fifty-eight. The team ... -
The South China Sea: Where Tiny Rocks Make Big Waves
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2018)On 1 May 2016, hundreds of angry Vietnamese marched through central Ho Chi Minh City, upending the meaning of International Workers’ Day. Rather than celebrating the global brotherhood of labor in its struggle against ... -
Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs Vol. 4 No. 1
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Illiberalism and Energy Transitions in Myanmar and Thailand
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2019)Over the next century most states are likely to face momentous and potentially catastrophic environmental impacts due to climate change. This has made managing energy policy – traditionally focused on delivering energy ... -
Should Clean Energy Be Politics As Usual? Reflections on India's Energy Transition
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2019)As planet Earth continues to warm up, there have been pressing calls for a decisive “energy transition.” An urgent demand, in other words, for a comprehensive shift from the current dependence on fossil-based or “dirty” ... -
"Some 40 Years to Clean Up Fukushima" A View from Ongoing Court Battles
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2019)While China and India continue to build new nuclear power plants, partly for the sake of reducing coal-related air pollution, Taiwan and South Korea have stopped their development plans and have announced a clear agenda ... -
Energy Transitions in India Implications for Energy Access, Greener Energy, and Energy Security
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2019)Today, India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, with an expected annual GDP growth rate of 7.6 percent. With a target of eight percent annual growth in the twelfth five-year plan (2012–2017) and ... -
East Asia's Nuclear Policies Fukushima Effect or a Nuclear Renaissance?
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2019)Until 2011, nuclear power seemed to be on a roll around the world. A number of countries, including China and Japan, placed atomic energy as a core pillar in their energy policies or had plans for a massive expansion of ... -
Energy Transitions in China and India Leapfrogging in Wind and Solar Power Technology
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2019)China and India are undergoing rapid transitions towards renewable energy. While their power mix is still dominated by coal, renewables—especially wind and solar— have in recent years outpaced the capacity addition of ... -
An Analysis of Moon Jae-in's Nuclear Phase-out Policy The Past, Present, and Future of Nuclear Energy in South Korea
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2019)Although South Korea adopted nuclear energy later than countries like the United States, Russia, or France, the country, until recently, has been considered to have one of the most successful civil nuclear power programs ... -
Imagining an Ethical Future for the Mekong River
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2019)The future of the Mekong River is unfolding like a movie we have seen many times. The opening scene is this idyllic river with traditional fishing and farming villages clustered along the shore. Hydroelectric dams first ... -
The Consequences of Confucius Institutes Understanding the Opposition
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2019)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 USD in establishing 500 of these CIs ... -
The Global Implications of China's Energy Transition
(Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Asian Studies Program., 2019)No country has made a bigger splash on global energy markets than China. In the last few decades, China’s dramatic growth in energy consumption has made it a price setter on a host of energy and natural resource commodities. ...
