Katie Martin graduated in 2011 with an undergraduate certificate in Asian Studies. She was also the 2011 recipient of the Henry Chen Memorial Scholarship. In this podcast she discusses her public health project "Youth Hygiene in Rural China". The project focused on teaching 200 fourth graders at a rural Chinese elementary school about oral and personal hygiene. It was a great success, every student received a toothbrush, toothpaste, and soap (for some it was their first toothbrush!).
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With the Inauguration close by, President Barack Obama is about to begin his second term in office. Would there be changes in the US-Asia relationship? Here we have Professor Michael Green, Victor Cha and Kristen Looney to discuss about possible directions for the Obama administration concerning US-Japan, US-Korea and US-China relationships in the next four years.
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Kristen Looney is an assistant professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where she teaches courses on Chinese politics. Dr. Looney completed her PhD in Government at Harvard University in 2012. Trained as a comparative political scientist, her research focuses on the politics of rural development in East Asia. Her dissertation examines the relative success or failure of rural development policies in China (2000s), Taiwan (1950s-1970s) and South Korea (1950s-1970s), and advances a theory that specifies the varying contributions of land reform, farmers’ organizations and campaigns in rural development. Dr. Looney’s graduate work was sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the Blakemore Foundation, the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard. Dr. Looney holds a B.A. from Wellesley College in Chinese Studies. She is fluent in Chinese and has some training in Korean language as well.
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Kristen Looney is an assistant professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where she teaches courses on Chinese politics. Dr. Looney completed her PhD in Government at Harvard University in 2012. Trained as a comparative political scientist, her research focuses on the politics of rural development in East Asia. Her dissertation examines the relative success or failure of rural development policies in China (2000s), Taiwan (1950s-1970s) and South Korea (1950s-1970s), and advances a theory that specifies the varying contributions of land reform, farmers’ organizations and campaigns in rural development. Dr. Looney’s graduate work was sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the Blakemore Foundation, the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard. Dr. Looney holds a B.A. from Wellesley College in Chinese Studies. She is fluent in Chinese and has some training in Korean language as well.
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Professor Michael Green, as part of a U.S. delegation, recently returned from Burma/Myanmar where he met with Burmese leaders, including President Thein Sein, as well as Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss the recent reforms underway in the country. Professor Green will give us "the good news and the bad news" about the developing situation in Burma/Myanmar.
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Scott LaFoy graduated from Georgetown in 2012 with a degree in Government, a minor in Japanese, and a certificate in Asian Studies. He spent two months in the summer of 2012 in Yanji, Jilin, China, studying North Korean dialect Korean and visited North Korea twice during that time. He currently works as a geo-spatial analyst at a defense policy and strategy think tank near Washington D.C.
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Compared to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, there has been a significant lack of politics surrounding the London Games, says Professor Victor Cha. Can we expect the competition between the U.S. and China to be intense this summer?
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Manny Manriquez earned his Master of Arts degree in May 2012 from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service’s Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, where he studied international security with a focus on nuclear weapons issues/nonproliferation and East Asian security. Manny also received a graduate certificate in Asian Studies and served as the Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellow for Japan studies during the 2011-2012 academic year.
Manny has interned for the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, the Japan Chair Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and Congressman Martin Heinrich (D-NM) at his district office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He also participated in the Critical Languages Scholarship program in Kyoto, Japan, the Japan Travel Program for Future U.S. Leaders in Tokyo, and the Pacific Forum CSIS Young Leaders Program. To date, he has published several works on East Asian and Japanese security issues as well as nuclear weapons issues.
Manny is serving as a Nonproliferation Graduate Fellow at the National Nuclear Security Administration from June 2012 to June 2013.
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Dr. Andrew Natsios believes the Obama administration must stop the use of "small inducements" like food aid to get Pyongyang to talk and push for serious econonomic reform to save the "dying country."
CSIS report by Dr Natsios: "North Korea: A Different Perspective"
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Professor Michael Green comments on the implications of Pyongyang's failed 'rocket' launch even as expectations of a potential nuclear test grows. Should the US "ratchet up the pressure" on China to restrain North korea?
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