Southeast Asia
Wilson Center Seeks Japan Expert for Associate Position
May 14, 2012
The Woodrow Wilson Center's Asia Program is seeking applications from all qualified candidates for the position of Asia Program Associate, whose duties will focus on the Center's Northeast Asia programming, particularly regarding Japan. The deadline for applications has changed. It is now Friday, May 18, 2012. more
East Asian National Identities: Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism
Apr 30, 2012
This rigorous comparative study of national identity in Japan, South Korea, and China examines countries with long histories influenced by Confucian thought, surging nationalism, and far-reaching ambitions for regional importance. East Asian National Identities compares national identities in terms of six dimensions encompassing ideology; history; the salience of cultural, political, and economic factors; superiority as a model national community; displacement of the U.S. in Asia; and depth of national identity. more
Delicate Dance: The United States, Burma, and the Cold War, 1948-1965
May 09, 2012 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
An examination of an oft-forgotten partnership during the early Cold War era. more
Wilson Center Seeks Japan Expert for Associate Position
May 14, 2012The Woodrow Wilson Center's Asia Program is seeking applications from all qualified candidates for the position of Asia Program Associate, whose duties will focus on the Center's Northeast Asia programming, particularly regarding Japan. The deadline for applications has changed. It is now Friday, May 18, 2012.
Vietnam’s China Dilemma: Steering in New Strategic Environment
Apr 03, 2012Vietnam’s relationship with China is a test of the strategic challenge it faces against a long historical backdrop. Hanoi’s rapprochement with the US and its joining ASEAN are manifestations of its diplomatic adroitness, writes Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar Marvin Ott in a recent edition of RSIS Commentaries.
Summer 2012 CWIHP Internship Opportunities
Feb 28, 2012The Cold War International History Project is currently accepting internship applications for the Summer 2012 academic semester. Deadline to apply: 3/31
The First Visit to Burma by an American Secretary of State
Dec 19, 2011Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit last month to Burma (Myanmar) broke new ground in Washington’s often tortuous relationship with that country. Wilson Center Fellow Kenton Clymer reminds us that Clinton was not the first secretary of state to make a surprise trip to Burma. Clymer is a Distinguished Research Professor of History at Northern Illinois University.
Delicate Dance: The United States, Burma, and the Cold War, 1948-1965
May 09, 2012 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
An examination of an oft-forgotten partnership during the early Cold War era.
The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi
March 27, 2012 // 11:00am — 12:30pm
The launch of a timely new biography on Burma's iconic democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Political Change in Burma: A Human Rights Perspective
February 23, 2012 // 9:30am — 11:00am
David Scott Mathieson, Human Rights Watch's senior Burma researcher, reports on his recent trip to Rangoon.
East Asian National Identities: Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism
This rigorous comparative study of national identity in Japan, South Korea, and China examines countries with long histories influenced by Confucian thought, surging nationalism, and far-reaching ambitions for regional importance. East Asian National Identities compares national identities in terms of six dimensions encompassing ideology; history; the salience of cultural, political, and economic factors; superiority as a model national community; displacement of the U.S. in Asia; and depth of national identity.
e-Dossier No. 30 - Treatment of American POWs in North Vietnam
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of a new document to its online Digital Archive. The document released today is a 1969 North Vietnam Communist Party resolution containing detailed instructions for improving the treatment and living conditions of American prisoners of war.
Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam
Marigold presents the first rigorously documented, in-depth story of one of the Vietnam War's last great mysteries: the secret Polish-Italian peace initiative, codenamed "Marigold," that sought to end the war, or at least to open direct talks between Washington and Hanoi, in 1966.
Political Change in Burma: A Human Rights Perspective
David Scott Mathieson, senior researcher on Burma in the Asia division of Human Rights Watch.
Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama
This week on dialogue an interview with the father-daughter journalist team of Marvin and Debbie Kalb, who just finished a book on the legacy of Vietnam.
Keep Asia High on Foreign Policy List
Relative to its growing importance, Asia receives scant attention. This is going to have to change, writes former Congressman Lee Hamilton.
Bernd Schaefer
Dr. Bernd Schaefer is Cold War International History Project Senior Research Scholar. Previously he was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and the Hannah Arendt Institute at the Technical University of Dresden. He also served four years as secretary for the East...
Chas W. Freeman, Jr.
President, Middle East Policy Council
Ambassador Freeman was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defense and mili...
Ernest Bower
Center for Strategic and International Studies Southeast Asia Program
Ernest Bower is currently Senior Adviser and Director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Southeast Asia Program. Prior to joining CSIS, he formed BrooksBowerAsia, a consulting firm specializing in the Asia-Pacific region. Before that, he served for a decade as Pr...
