Governing Non-Traditional Security, Rescaling the State in Southeast Asia
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Much of the world today is preoccupied with threats to non-traditional security (NTS): border-spanning challenges such as terrorism, pandemic disease, and environmental damage that defy traditional approaches to security focused on military conflicts between states. Despite their arguable gravity, NTS threats elicit a baffling array of policy responses, ranging from full-scale securitization and institutionalized management to no response at all. Despite their scope, NTS problems are rarely managed holistically through regional organizations. Instead they are addressed mainly by efforts to alter and enlarge—“rescale”—the authority of the apparatus of the national state to cover specific NTS issues in a variety of locations. The resulting process of state expansion if not transformation is promoted and resisted by domestically competing coalitions of socioeconomic and political forces. Regionalist theory and rhetoric notwithstanding, it is the intra-national struggles among such groups that dictate how these nascent modes of NTS-focused governance operate in practice. Prof. Jones will illustrate his argument with particular reference to Southeast Asia.
Lee Jones is a senior lecturer in international politics at Queen Mary, University of London, and a research associate at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. His work features the interaction between social conflict, state transformation, and international relations, with a focus on Southeast Asia. His many publications include Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation (co-authored) and Societies Under Siege: Exploring How International Economic Sanctions (Do Not) Work (both forthcoming in 2015). Earlier work includes ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia (2012). He has advised governmental and non-governmental agencies in Europe and Asia and regularly appears in British and international media. His DPhil and MPhil are from Oxford. His website is www.leejones.tk and he tweets @DrLeeJones.
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Lee Jones
2014-15 Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellow on Southeast Asia
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POSTPONED: Behavioral Challenges to Solving “Easy” Problems in International Development: The Case of Micronutrient Deficiencies in India
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Grant Miller
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Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Professor, Economics (by courtesy)
As a health and development economist based at the Stanford School of Medicine, Dr. Miller's overarching focus is research and teaching aimed at developing more effective health improvement strategies for developing countries.
His agenda addresses three major interrelated themes: First, what are the major causes of population health improvement around the world and over time? His projects addressing this question are retrospective observational studies that focus both on historical health improvement and the determinants of population health in developing countries today. Second, what are the behavioral underpinnings of the major determinants of population health improvement? Policy relevance and generalizability require knowing not only which factors have contributed most to population health gains, but also why. Third, how can programs and policies use these behavioral insights to improve population health more effectively? The ultimate test of policy relevance is the ability to help formulate new strategies using these insights that are effective.
Faculty Fellow, Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development
Faculty Affiliate, Stanford Center for Latin American Studies
Faculty Affiliate, Woods Institute for the Environment
Faculty Affiliate, Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources
Faculty Affiliate, Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions
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How to better harness big data for international education research
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International Education Initiative (IEI) Instructional Workshop
IEI is a new cross-campus initiative to increase dialogue and collaboration around international education at Stanford.
About the Topic: There is a wide variety of readily available secondary data sources that can be harnessed to provide rich descriptions and often meaningful causal explanations of interesting educational phenomenon in developing countries. Some of the larger data sources such as TIMSS, PIRLS or PISA are widely known, but in addition to these, many other under-utilized national and cross-national datasets are also available.
In this brief workshop I hope to a) introduce alternative secondary data resources that are useful and relevant for educational research b) discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of working with such large-scale data.
About the Speaker: Amita Chudgar is an Associate Professor of Educational Administration and Education Policy. As an economist of education, her long-term interest focus is on ensuring that children and adults in resource-constrained environments have equal access to high-quality learning opportunities irrespective of their backgrounds.
Lunch will be served.
Sponsored by: Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford Graduate School of Education, Rural Education Action Program, Center for Education Policy Analysis
Encina Hall East Wing, 5th Floor, Falcon Lounge
Amita Chudgar
Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Education
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Stanford Summer Juku 2014
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Stanford Summer Juku on Japanese Political Economy (SSJ-JPE)
August 11-14, 2014
Oksenberg Conference Room
Stanford Japan Program at Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
The Japan Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (S-APARC) at Stanford University started Stanford Summer Juku (SSJ) in 2014. In SSJ, researchers on Japanese politics and Japanese economy get together and discuss their research in a relaxed setting. The second annual meeting is held at Stanford on August 11-14, 2014. The first two days again focus on research in political science/political economy and international relations, and the latter two days focus on research in economics and business.
Takeo Hoshi, Kenji E. Kushida, Phillip Lipscy
Program
8/11/2013
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:15 Session I:
"Japan's Abandoned Partisans: Realignment after Electoral Reform", Kenneth McElwain (University of Michigan)
Discussants:
Daniel M. Smith (Harvard University)
Karen Jusko (Stanford University)
10:15-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Session II:
"Political Dynasties and the Selection of Cabinet Ministers: The Legacy Advantage in Japan and Ireland" Daniel M. Smith (Harvard University), Shane Martin (University of Leicester)
Discussants:
Gary Cox (Stanford University)
Kenneth McElwain (University of Michigan)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:15 Session III:
"Running the Right Race: The Impact of Electoral Rules on Celebrity Candidate Entry", Justin Reeves (University of California, San Diego)
Discussants:
Ikuo Kume (Waseda University)
Kenneth McElwain (University of Michigan)
2:15- 3:30 Session IV:
"Chasing the Median Voter: A Legislator Experiment on Support for Agricultural Protectionism", Megumi Naoi (University of California, San Diego)
Discussants:
Kenneth Scheve (Stanford University)
Kay Shimizu (Columbia University)
8/12/2013
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:15 Session I:
"Inside the Castle Gates: The Political Strategies of Foreign Multinational Corporations and Institutional Change in Japan", Kenji E. Kushida (Stanford University)
Discussants:
William Grimes (Boston University)
Masahiko Aoki (Stanford University)
10:15-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Session II:
"Institions and Central Bank Norm Diffusion: Abenomics and the Delayed Break with the Monetary Orthodoxy", Gene Park (Loyola Marymount University), Saori Katada (University of Southern California), and Giacomo Chiozza (Vanderbilt University)
Discussants:
William Grimes (Boston University)
Phillip Lipscy (Stanford University)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:15 Session III:
"Guns and Trades: How Realist Rhetoric Mobilizes Mass Support for Trade Agreements", Ikuo Kume (Waseda University)
Discussants:
Daniel M. Smith (Harvard University)
Steve Vogel (University of California, Berkeley)
2:15-3:30 Session IV:
"Japan Agriculture (JA) and the Institional Parameters of Local Agricultural Innovation", Patricia Maclachlan (University of Texas) and Kay Shimizu (Columbia University)
Discussants:
Megumi Naoi (University of California, San Diego)
Kenji E. Kushida (Stanford University)
6:30 Group Dinner
8/13/2013
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:15 Session I:
"The Impact of Japan on Western Management: Theory and Practice", Christina L. Ahmadjian (Hitotsubashi University) and Ulrike Schaede (University of California, San Diego)
Discussants:
Mariko Sakakibara (University of California, Los Angeles)
Robert Cole (University of California, Berkeley)
10:15-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Session II:
"Does Unconventional Monetary Policy Affect Inequality? Evidence from Japan", Ayako Saiki (De Nederlandsche Bank) and Jon Frost (De Nederlandsche Bank)
Discussants:
Helen Popper (Santa Clara University)
Brad DeLong (University of California, Berkeley)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:15 Session III:
"Do Risk Preferences Change? Evidence from Panel Data Before and After the Great East Japan Earthquake", Chie Hanaoka(Kyoto Sangyo University), Hitoshi Shigeoka (Simon Fraser University), Yasutora Watanabe (Northwestern University)
Discussants:
Chiaki Moriguchi (Hitotsubashi University)
Takeo Hoshi (Stanford University)
2:15-3:30 Session IV:
"The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation: Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards", Koichiro Ito (Boston University) and James M. Sallee (University of Chicago)
Discussants:
Hiroyuki Kasahara (University of British Columbia)
Junjie Zhang (University of California, San Diego)
8/14/2013
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:15 Session I:
"Abenomics: Preliminary Analysis and Outlook", Joshua K. Hausman (University of Michigan) and Johannes F. Wieland (University of California, San Diego)
Discussants:
Michael Hutchison (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Takatoshi Ito (University of Tokyo)
10:15-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Session II:
"The Effect of Bank Recapitalization Policy on Corporate Investment: Evidence from a Banking Crisis in Japan", Hiroyuki Kasahara (University of British Columbia), Yasuyuki Sawada (University of Tokyo), and Michio Suzuki (University of Tokyo)
Discussants:
David Vera (Fresno State University)
Mark Spiegel (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:15 Session III:
"Lending to Unhealthy Firms in Japan during the Lost Decade: WTF", Suparna Chakraborty (University of San Francisco) and Joe Peek(Federal Reserve Board)
Discussants:
Ayako Yasuda (University of California, Davis)
Satoshi Koibuchi (Chuo University)
Stanford Summer Juku 2013
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Stanford Summer Juku on Japanese Political Economy (SSJ-JPE)
August 19-22, 2013
Oksenberg Conference Room
Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
The Japan Studies Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (S-APARC) at Stanford University is starting an exciting new program called Stanford Summer Juku (SSJ). In SSJ, researchers on Japanese politics and Japanese economy get together and discuss their research in a relaxed setting. In addition to presentation and discussion of research papers that is standard for any academic conference, SSJ is distinctive by setting aside ample time for informal discussions and interactions. We believe you will find this an excellent opportunity to expand your network of researchers on Japan in both political science and economics. We also hope that the interactions at SSJ will lead to some future collaboration among the participants.
Our inaugural meeting will be held at Stanford on August 19-22, 2013. The first two days will focus on research in political science/political economy and international relations, and the latter two days will focus on research in business and economics.
Finally, a little bit about the name of this program; Juku here does not refer to modern Japanese cram schools. What we have in mind is the private schools at the end of Edo period, which attracted young motivated students and ended up producing numerous leaders in the Meiji period. Our goal is to attract many young researchers who will go on to become leaders in the studies of Japanese politics and Japanese economy in the near future. We look forward to welcoming you to Stanford this summer.
Takeo Hoshi, Kenji E. Kushida, Phillip Lipscy
Report - Stanford Summer Juku 2013
Program
8/19/2013
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-9:15 Welcome: Gi-Wook Shin, (Director, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University)
9:15-10:25 Session I:
"America's Role in Making Japan's Economic Miracle: New Evidence for a Landmark Case", Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth College), Michael Beckley (Tufts University), and Jennifer M. Miller (Dartmouth College)
Discussants:
Amy Catalinac (Australian National University)
William Grimes (Boston University)
10:25-10:50 Break
10:50-12:00 Session II:
"The Electoral Politics of Energy", Phillip Lipscy (Stanford University)
Discussants:
Greg Noble (University of Tokyo)
Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth College)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:10 Session III:
"Pork to Policy: The Rise of National Security in Elections in Japan", Amy Catalinac (Australian National University)
Discussants:
Saori Katada (University of Southern California)
Christiana Davis (Princeton University)
8/20/2013
8:30-9:15 Breakfast
9:15-10:25 Session I:
"The Politics of Commoditization in Information Communications Technology: Lessons from Japan's 'Galapagos' ICT Sector", Kenji E. Kushida (Stanford University)
Discussants:
Greg Noble (University of Tokyo)
Ulrike Schaede (University of California, San Diego)
10:25-10:50 Break
10:50-12:00 Session II:
"Private Money as Public Funds: Distributive Politics Under Austerity", Kay Shimizu (Columbia University)
Discussants:
Steve Vogel (University of California, Berkeley)
Jonathan Rodden (Stanford University)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:10 Session III:
"Asian Designs: Rising Powers and the Shaping of International Governance", Saadia Pekkanen (University of Washington)
Discussants:
William Grimes (Boston University)
Christina Davis (Princeotn University)
6:30 Group Dinner
8/21/2013
8:30-9:15 Breakfast
9:15-10:25 Session I:
"Trading Corporate Assets in Japan: An Event Study of Subsidiary Trades Among Listed Companies", Ulrike Schaede (University of California, San Diego) and Tatsuo Ushijima (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Discussants:
Robert Eberhart (Santa Clara University)
Ayako Yasuda (University of California, Davis)
10:25-10:50 Break
10:50-12:00 Session II:
"School Entry Cutoff Dates and the Timing of Births", Hitoshi Shigeoka (Simon Fraser University)
Discussants:
Karen Eggleston (Stanford University)
Toshiaki Iizuka (University of Tokyo)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:10 Session III:
"New Management at the Bank of Japan, End of the 'Independent' Bank of Japan and Implications for the Cencept of Central Bank Independence", Thomas F. Cargill (University of Nevada) and Jennifer Holt-Dwyer (Hunter College)
Discussants:
Helen Popper (Santa Clara University)
Ken Kuttner, (Williams College)
8/22/2013
8:30-9:15 Breakfast
9:15-10:25 Session I:
"Using Dynamic Electricity Pricing to Address Energy Crises: Evidence from Randomized Field Experiements", Koichiro Ito (Stanford University), Takanori Ida (Kyoto University), and Makoto Tanaka (GRIPS)
Discussants:
Masahiko Aoki (Stanford University)
Matthew Kahn (University of California, Los Angeles)
10:25-10:50 Break
10:50-12:00 Session II:
"Choice of Invoicing Currency: New evidence from a questionnaire survey of Japanese export firms", Satoshi Koibuchi (Chuo University), Takatoshi Ito (RIETI), Kiyotaka Sato (Yokohama National University), Junko Shimizu (Gakushuin University)
Discussants:
Katheryn Russ (University of California, Davis)
Mark Spiegel (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:10 Session III:
"Banks restructuring sonata: How capital injection triggered labor force rejuvenation in Japanese banks", David Vera (California State University, Fresno), Kazuki Onji (Australian National University), Takeshi Osada (Bunri University of Hospitality)
Discussants:
Masami Imai (Wesleyan University)
Kelly Wang (Federal Reserve Board)
Diamond: Facing up to the democratic recession
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In the 25th anniversary edition of The Journal of Democracy, CDDRL Director Larry Diamond reflects on the current democratic recession and why this trend is so troubling.
Diamond, who serves as the founding co-editor of The Journal of Democracy, argues that the world is in a mild but protracted democratic recession, which raises alarm due to the rate of democratic failures and where they are occurring. In surveying global empirical trends, Diamond cites 25 breakdowns of democracy since 2000 that were not the cause of military coups but rather the slow erosion of democratic rights and procedures.
Another worrisome trend for Diamond is the declining freedom in a number of countries and regions since 2005. This is most notable in Africa where corruption and the abuse of power are leading to the decline of the rule of law and political rights across the region. It is also affecting countries of global strategic importance with large populations and economic influence– from Taiwan to Mexico – and leading to the resurgence of authoritarianism in Russia and China. Diamond also looks to the U.S. where the dysfunction and breakdown of American democracy sets a bad precedent for the rest of the world.
Diamond concludes on an optimistic note, stressing that strong public support for democracy may reverse many of these troubling trends and help sustain longer-term democratic progress.
From left to right: Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Hertie School of Governance (Berlin); Marc Plattner, National Endowment for Democracy; Larry Diamond, Stanford University; Steven Levitsky, Harvard University; and Lucan Way, University of Toronto.
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Larry Diamond speaks to a large audience in Washington, D.C., for the 25th anniversary of the Journal of Democracy. Other speakers at the event included: Thomas Carothers (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (Hertie School of Governance-Berlin), Marc Plattner (National Endowment for Democracy), Steven Levitsky (Harvard University), and Lucan Way (University of Toronto).
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The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution: Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests
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Over the last two decades global production of soybean and palm oil seeds have increased enormously. Because these tropically rainfed crops are used for food, cooking, animal feed, and biofuels, they have entered the agriculture, food, and energy chains of most nations despite their actual growth being increasingly concentrated in Southeast Asia and South America. The planting of these crops is controversial because they are sown on formerly forested lands, rely on large farmers and agribusiness rather than smallholders for their development, and supply export markets. The contrasts with the famed Green Revolution in rice and wheat of the 1960s through the 1980s are stark, as those irrigated crops were primarily grown by smallholders, depended upon public subsidies for cultivation, and served largely domestic sectors.
The overall aim of the book is to provide a broad synthesis of the major supply and demand drivers of the rapid expansion of oil crops in the tropics; its economic, social, and environmental impacts; and the future outlook to 2050. After introducing the dramatic surge in oil crops, chapters provide a comparative perspective from different producing regions for two of the world's most important crops, oil palm and soybeans in the tropics. The following chapters examine the drivers of demand of vegetable oils for food, animal feed, and biodiesel and introduce the reader to price formation in vegetable oil markets and the role of trade in linking consumers across the world to distant producers in a handful of exporting countries. The remaining chapters review evidence on the economic, social, and environmental impacts of the oil crop revolution in the tropics. While both economic benefits and social and environmental costs have been huge, the outlook is for reduced trade-offs and more sustainable outcomes as the oil crop revolution slows and the global, national, and local communities converge on ways to better managed land use changes and land rights.
Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests
by Derek Byerlee, Walter P. Falcon, and Rosamond L. Naylor
will be published by Oxford University Press on November 10, 2016
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by Derek Byerlee, Walter P. Falcon, and Rosamond L. Naylor
will be published by Oxford University Press on November 10, 2016
$74.00 | 304 Pages | 9780190222987
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Child Gender, Living Arrangements and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence from Rural China
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This paper studies intergenerational living arrangements in the presence of pre-school children. Two particular driving forces behind living arrangements are considered: intergenerational labor specialization in childcare and work on the job; and sharing the companionship of children as a household public good. The theoretical model yields implications for intergenerational co-residence, maternal labor supply, and investment in children. Using China Health and Nutrition Survey data, we find that women are more likely to co-reside with their mothers-in-law if they have higher earning abilities, or if they have fi rstborn sons, who are considered more valuable household public goods under the widespread son preference in China. We also fi nd that among extended households with higher probability to co-reside, the mothers are likely to spend more time on the job and be less involved in family chores, and the male children, on average, receive better health insurance and medical services than the female children do.
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Ang Sun
Assistant Professor, Renmin University of China
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Studies on Chinese Community Health Service Performance and Index
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In the last decade, Chinese community health service institutions have experienced rapid development, so that 97 percent of Chinese citizens are covered under one form or another of social health insurance. Currently a comprehensive network of community health services in the cities of China has established and has gradually achieved full management integration and classification. Evaluating the performance of community health services is an important measure for a comprehensive review of the current situation of community health services, their processes and outcomes, and for improving the efficient allocation of health resources and service efficiency. This evaluation is also of great importance to improve the overall quality of health services. The main purpose of the present study was to establish a scientific, standardized community health service performance evaluation system, and to further promote the efficient and effective development of community health services. Using a variety of methods including literature research, expert discussion, expert consultation, and fuzzy evaluation, the established indicator system contains three levels of indicators across over thirty aspects of performance in providing basic health services to community residents. The application of this index could be integrated in different areas to evaluate and compare different community health service institutions scientifically.
Professor Yaping Du is the Deputy Director of Institute of Social and Family Medicine, Zhejiang University. In 2005, Du received his doctor degree in Family Medicine from the University of Kiel, Germany. From 1979 to 1984, he studied clinical medicine at Zhejiang University School of Medicine and in 1993, he received a Master in Health Management from Peking Union Medical University. In 1997, Professor Du created the Department of Family Medicine in Zhejiang University and was awarded the the title of Associate Professor and Tutor for the Master program. For more than 10 years, Du has taken the lead in China for general practitioner residency training programs and has enriched the department to become the top academic institution awarding master’s and doctoral degrees in family medicine. During Professor Du’s more than 27 years at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, he has established a laboratory of digital and information technology in primary healthcare, and was the Program Instructor of more than ten programs from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, International Cooperation and Zhejiang Province. Du has published more than 30 articles and 10 textbooks and has guided more than 30 postgraduates. Currently Professor Du is the senior expert of the MoH (Minister of Health) in exploring human resources for community health service, councilor of Family Medicine Educational Guide Committee of the MoE (Minister of Education), and Vice-Chairman and General Secretary of Zhejiang Provincial Society of Family Medicine.
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Institute of Social and Family Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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