http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from SEAFen-usPublic domainhttp://seaf.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/60http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1444Suharto, 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 Don Emmerson, who recalled Suharto's regime in the context of US-Indonesian relations.]]>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1444?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1385The 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.]]>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1385?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1352A 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? 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.]]>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1352?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1330There 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?"]]>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1330?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1328The 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.]]>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1328?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1253Director 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.]]>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1253?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1235In 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?"]]>Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1235?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1231Shorenstein APARC's Donald Emmerson comments on ASEAN's plans for economic integration.]]>Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1231?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1182Newmont 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. Donald Emmerson, director of the Southeast Asia Forum at Shorenstein APARC, is interviewed by K. Oanh Ha on KQED's Pacific Time about the court's decision.]]>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1182?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1053Shorenstein 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."]]>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1053?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/976"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.]]>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/976?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/961Shorenstein 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.]]>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/961?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/958Donald Emmerson responds to allegations that U.S. presidential hopeful Barak Obama was educated in a madrasah in Jakarta.]]>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/958?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/907It 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 ...]]>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/907?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/904On 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.]]>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/904?