Published on September 15, 2011
On September 22, 2011, the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS, in partnership with Peking University Center for International and Strategic Studies and Chung Ang University Graduate School of International Studies will host a one-day conference exploring the numerous political changes that will take place throughout Asia and the United States in 2012.
Panels will discuss what 2012 leadership may look like for the United States, South Korea, Japan, China, Russia and North Korea, as well as what the effects of these changes might have on regional security and security cooperation in the future.
For a full list of speakers and to RSVP, click here.
Published on March 7, 2011
In a new USKI Working Paper, Jaclyn McEachern examines the analogies that have been drawn between North Korea and Iran, to help identify the limitations of each when trying to inform policy preferences. In doing so, she identifies four areas in which lessons can be extracted and applied in a cross-context setting. Download the paper here.
Published on September 23, 2010
On September 23, 2010, USKI and the Sejong Society of Washington, D.C. hosted a talk with the Venerable Pomnyun Sunim, who discussed the DPRK’s increasing economic dependency on China and touched on strategic possibilities for the U.S. and South Korea to approach the China-DPRK relationship.
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Transcript | “North Korea’s Growing Dependence on China: Implications for the Future of Northeast Asia” (Sept. 23, 2010)
Published on May 17, 2010
After a brief introduction by USKI Director Jae Ku and Ambassador Robert King, David Hawk, the former executive director of Amnesty International U.S., presented his new report, “Pursuing Peace While Advancing Rights: The Untried Approach to North Korea.” Following the presentation, the discussants, Professor Victor Cha and Dr. Sophie Richardson, each provided constructive and insightful comments, as well as criticisms. The event finished with a brief Q&A session during which human rights awareness problems in North Korea were further explored.
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Transcript | Pursuing Peace While Advancing Rights: The Untried Approach to North Korea (May 17, 2010)
Full Report | Pursuing Peace While Advancing Rights: The Untried Approach to North Korea, by David Hawk (May 2010)
Published on May 17, 2010
On May 17, 2010, the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS released a new report by David Hawk: “Pursuing Peace While Advancing Rights: The Untried Approach to North Korea.” This report argues that the reigning paradigm—the idea that either centrally involved nation-states seek to reconcile, engage, and negotiate with the DPRK, in which case raising human rights issues is taboo, or another government raises human rights issues but forgoes engagement and negotiations—is all wrong. This report seeks to make the case that the two should go hand in hand, and outlines an alternative paradigm, which combines the search for peace with the promotion of human rights, and suggests some ways that this alternative, as yet untried, approach might be pursued. read more …
Published on May 7, 2010
The U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS annouces the release of the fourth edition of the SAIS U.S. -Korea Yearbook.
Each fall semester at SAIS, the Korea Studies Program offers the course, “The Two Koreas: Contemporary Research and Record,” where students prepare an in-depth report on an issue of importance to Korean affairs in that year. As part of their research, students make a one-week research trip to Seoul to test their ideas with experts and officials. The SAIS U.S.-Korea Yearbook is a compilation of these student papers.
Student authors include: Tze Chin “Alvin” Wong, Paul Elliott, Sogaku Miyamoto, Ian Howard, Kee Hoon Chung, Jason Park, Momoko Sato, Neil K. Shenai, Nick Borst, Naoko Aoki, Zander Lanfried, and Sarah Yun.
Download the 2009 SAIS U.S.-Korea Yearbook.
Published on March 29, 2010
The U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS is pleased to announce the launch of 38 North, a website devoted to analysis of North Korea. While this site will strive to break new ground, its main objective is to provide the best possible analysis to all those who work on North Korea for a living—the expert community, government officials and the media—and who are interested in what happens there. Too often analysis of the North is based on inexperience, inaccurate information or just plain bad deductive reasoning. This website will be based on the humble acknowledgement that no one really knows for sure what is going on in North Korea, but we can at least try to understand the possibilities. And anyone who professes certainty should be viewed with the greatest skepticism. read more …
On September 22, 2011, the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS, in partnership with Peking University Center for International and Strategic Studies and Chung Ang University Graduate School of International Studies will host a one-day conference exploring the numerous political changes that will take place throughout Asia and the United States in 2012.
