February 27th, 2008
BBC interviews SEAF Director Emmerson about passing of Suharto
Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford In the News: BBC on January 27, 2008Suharto, the army general who ruled Indonesia with an iron hand from more than three decades (1966-98), died in Jakarta on Jan. 27. Later that day the BBC's NewsHour solicited reactions from various observers, including SEAF Director Donald Emmerson, who recalled Suharto's regime in the context of US-Indonesian relations.
December 20th, 2007
Applications from mid-career and senior Southeast Asianist scholars for the 2008-2009 Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellowship on Southeast Asia.
AnnouncementThe National University of Singapore and Stanford University invite applications from mid-career and senior Southeast Asianist scholars in the social sciences or humanities who would like to spend up to nine months between August/September 2008 and August/September 2009 at NUS and Stanford writing and doing research on or related to contemporary Southeast Asia.
November 21st, 2007
ASEAN adopts charter despite differences over Myanmar
In the News: To the Point, KCRW, National Public Radio on November 20, 2007A long-time loose group of countries focused on trade and business, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is trying to forge a common market roughly similar to the European Union. But the question of how to confront Myanmar's crackdown on democracy has left ASEAN divided. Will Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore start to take a stand on democracy, and are they turning away from the US as China booms? Dr. Donald Emmerson is director of the Southeast Asia Forum at Stanford's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the author of many papers and books on the region comments on the adoption of the charter on KCRW's To the Point. Link to audio file of the entire day's show below. Professor Emmerson's interview begins at about 42 minutes into the show.
October 22nd, 2007
Protest and repression in Burma (Myanmar): What is to be done?
There is no consensus as to what outsiders can or should do in response to the dire situation inside Burma (Myanmar). At least that was the impression left by a vigorous discussion at a standing-room-only event convened by SEAF on October 18, 2007 on "Burma's Crisis: What Should Outsiders Do?" Read more »
October 18th, 2007
Shorenstein APARC is pleased to announce the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on Southeast Asia
The Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on Southeast Asia, founded in 2007, establishes the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship on Southeast Asia to help advance scholarly and policy-relevant consideration of this region. Read more »
June 25th, 2007
SEALNet students expand scope of social service to five countries in 2007
Director of the Southeast Asia Forum at Shorenstein APARC and SEALNet faculty adviser Don Emmerson kicked off SEALNet's end of year dinner by congratulating the students on their accomplishments and their future plans to expand its social service projects in to five Southeast Asian countries this summer. Read more »
May 31st, 2007
New Power Dynamics in Southeast Asia: Issues for US Policymakers - Conference Report Published
In October 2006, Donald Emmerson, director of Shorenstein APARC's Southeast Forum participated in the Stanley Foundations's 47th annual Strategy for Peace Conference. Emmerson chaired the roundtable discussion on regional frameworks and wrote the roundtable report on which the recently published conference report relied. Professor Emmerson also contributed an original paper titled "Southeast Asian-Pacific Frameworks: What do They Frame and What Work do They do?"
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May 24th, 2007
South East Asia: Gearing Up For Economic Integration
In the News: IPS Asia-PacificShorenstein APARC's Donald Emmerson comments on ASEAN's plans for economic integration. Read more »
April 27th, 2007
Boosting business in the Philippines: Gold mining firm cleared of toxic dumping charges in Indonesia - Pacific Time on Public Radio International
In the NewsNewmont Mining, the world's second-largest producer of gold, was acquitted this week by an Indonesian court. The firm, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, was accused of dumping toxic mercury and arsenic waste off Indonesia's Sulawesi Island. Shorenstein APARC's Donald Emmerson is interviewed by K. Oanh Ha on KQED's Pacific Time about the court's decision. Listen to the show.
March 27th, 2007
Shorenstein APARC leadership and faculty lead a dialogue with alumni on the risks and opportunities of US-Asia relations
In the NewsShorenstein APARC's Michael Armacost, Donald Emmerson, Gi-Wook Shin, and Daniel Sneider traveled to Oahu for a Stanford alumni event on Saturday, March 10. They were joined by over 120 alumni, parents and guests for a panel discussion "The United States and Asia: Risks and Opportunities." 
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February 12th, 2007
Return to Southeast Asia, Lame Duck President Finding a Quiet Pond
In the News: Washington Observer Weekly on November 22, 2006"APEC's uniquely trans-Pacific character is an important political reason for U.S. to strengthen the group," says Shorenstein APARC's Southeast Asia Forum's, Donald Emmerson in an article by the Washington Observer Weekly. Read more »
February 1st, 2007
Islam in Indonesia, Fear in America - A Child's and a Country's Horizons
Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on February 1, 2007Shorenstein APARC's Donald Emmerson responds to accusations made by Fox News and Insight Magazine "that Obama was influenced by a radical Islamist agenda" when he was a young schoolboy in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1967. Read more »
January 23rd, 2007
Donald Emmerson, Indonesia expert - on Barack Obama's early religious instruction in Indonesia
In the NewsOn Tuesday, January 23, Shorenstein APARC's Donald Emmerson was interviewed by WDEL's Allan Loudell about the allegations made by FOX News and Insight Magazine that Barak Obama attended a madrasah while living in Jakarta, Indonesia when he was a young boy. "This story, which I originally thought was about Indonesia is really not about Indonesia," says Emmerson. "Instead, it's an illustration of just how dirty politics are going to get in this presidential campaign here in the United States. It's about media manipulation and it's about the fear of Islam post 9-11 here in the United States." You can hear the complete interview from WDEL's website.
November 19th, 2006
Asia is a good place to begin rebalancing U.S. foreign policy because it is huge, it is dynamic -- and it is not Iraq says Shorenstein APARC's Donald Emmerson
Op-ed: San Jose Mercury News on November 19, 2006It is tempting to dismiss President Bush's travel through Southeast Asia as aimless floating by a doubly lame duck. Getting things done will be harder without either the right to run for a third term in 2008 or the support of a legislative majority between now and then. But if that means having to work with others, at home ... Read more »
November 15th, 2006
APEC and the future of regionalism in Asia
Press ReleaseOn November 2, 2006, Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, in association with University of California, Berkeley's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center, convened regional and economic experts to discuss the role of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group, and its relationship to the future of regionalism and regional integration in East Asia. Read more »
October 13th, 2006
Shorenstein APARC's Southeast Asia Forum co-hosts the visit and public lecture by Malaysia's former deputy prime minister
Anwar Ibrahim visits Freeman Spogli Institute for a public lecture co-hosted by Shorenstein APARC's Southeast Asia Forum, the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at FSI and Stanford's Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies on October 11, 2006. Audio transcript available
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July 11th, 2006
Stanford honors student Kevin Siew examines the "Singapore Model" of counter-terrorism
A Singaporean student who had worked closely with the Shorenstein APARC's Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF), Siew Zhi Xiang Kevin, joined his fellow students in the Honors Program in International Security (2006) at a ceremony at Stanford on June 16, 2006. Kevin's honors thesis, completed in 2005, was entitled "Winning the Ideological War on Terrorism in Southeast Asia: Evaluating the Singapore Model." Read more »
July 7th, 2005
APARC's Don Emmerson urges Muslim understanding in America
Op-ed: PacNet #26A (Pacific Forum/CSIS) on July 1, 2005In the post-9/11 world there is an urgent need for Americans to understand the Muslim world, and vice versa. Yet precisely when they should be visiting Muslim countries, Americans are kept at home by fears of terrorism, according to APARC's Donald K. Emmerson. Read more »
May 10th, 2005
A New Spirit of Bandung?
Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford Op-ed: Pacific Forum/CSIS (Honolulu) on April 29, 2005Donald K. Emmerson reflects on the fiftieth anniversary of a landmark meeting held in Indonesia in April 1955, which became a global icon of anti-colonial solidarity. Read more »
March 31st, 2005
At the Eye of the Storm - Mourning and Hope
In the News: Stanford Magazine on March 31, 2005Tsunami could give Aceh, Indonesia's war-torn province, the opportunity it needs, according to APARC's Donald K. Emmerson. Read more »
January 26th, 2005
Worsened by war: Two hard-hit areas beset by civil strife
In the News: Boston Globe on December 29, 2004For the two regions hardest hit by the Asian tsunamis, international relief efforts are being complicated by more than the rising death tolls and physical devastation: They are also war zones. APARC's Donald K. Emmerson comments. Read more »
Donald K. Emmerson discusses implications of the 2004 tsunami disaster
In the News: "Pacific Time", KQED on December 30, 2004Listen to an in-depth interview in two parts on KQED's "Pacific Time" radio newsmagazine. Read more »
Tsunami aftermath and its humanitarian challenge
In the News: "To the Point", KCRW on December 28, 2004APARC's Donald K. Emmerson comments on the Southeast Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster on Public Radio International's "To the Point." Read more »
Donald K. Emmerson on "The Diane Rehm Show"
In the News: The Diane Rehm Show, WAMU public radio on January 12, 2005Listen to a spirited panel discussion on the relief effort and possible long-term policy implications of the Southeast Asian tsunami disaster. Read more »
Military-backed militia sets up Aceh relief effort; critics fear Laskar group will undermine ceasefire
In the News: San Francisco Chronicle on January 21, 2005A military-backed militia notorious for killing dozens of independence supporters during East Timor's violent breakaway from Indonesia has set up a relief operation in tsunami-wrecked Aceh province, raising fears that the military may try to use the militia to sabotage a cease-fire with Acehnese separatists. Donald K. Emmerson comments. Read more »
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