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Korea's Mistake on China's ADIZ Controversy
Korea’s Mistake on China’s ADIZ Controversy By Dr. Victor Cha December 2, 2013 Victor Cha is a senior adviser and the inaugural holder of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also director of Asian studies and holds the D.S. Song-KF Chair in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. From 2004 to 2007, he served as director for Asian affairs at the White House on the National Security Council (NSC), where he was responsible primarily for Japan, the Korean peninsula, Australia/New Zealand, and Pacific Island nation affairs. Dr. Cha was also the deputy head of delegation for the United States at the Six-Party Talks in Beijing and received two Outstanding Service Commendations during his tenure at the NSC. He is the award-winning author of Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States- Korea-Japan Security Triangle (Stanford University Press, 1999), winner of the 2000 Ohira Book Prize; Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies, with Dave Kang (Columbia University Press, 2004); Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia (Columbia University Press, 2009); and The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (Ecco, 2012. Dr. Cha holds a B.A., an M.I.A., and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, as well as an M.A. from Oxford University. The Republic of Korea appropriately protested China’s November 23 announcement of the creation of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) through foreign ministry and defense ministry channels last week. -
BRUSHES with HISTORY IMAGINATION and INNOVATION in ART EDUCATION HISTORY DATES: NOV 19–22, 2015 RECEPTION: NOV 19, 6-8PM V V V
BRUSHES WITH HISTORY IMAGINATION AND INNOVATION IN ART EDUCATION HISTORY DATES: NOV 19–22, 2015 RECEPTION: NOV 19, 6-8PM v v v WELCOME TO BRUSHES WITH HISTORY: IMAGINATION AND INNOVATION IN ART EDUCATION HISTORY (BWH) at Teachers College (TC). Our goal is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of ideas, issues, information, and research approaches utilized in the historical investigation of art education within local and global contexts. We will offer opportunities to engage with the rich resources in art education history at TC and beyond, explore more sophisticated approaches and methods of historical research, encourage interest in historical research, and extend the conversation on how meaning is produced in historical research trends and representations. This conference comes two decades after the last academic conference on the history of art education held at The Pennsylvania State University in 1995. TC’s legacy of “firsts” begins with the College itself and focuses on renewing this legacy through TC’s Campaign. This is the first history of art education conference taking place in the 127-year history of the College as well as that of the Program in Art & Art Education. The conference title highlights Imagination and Innovation in Art Education History. On the face of it, acts of imagination and innovation have not always been thought synonymous with our perceptions of history. Enshrined in former documents, statutes, and pronouncements of trained experts, the historical records of TC and art education history, cathedral-like, have seemed carved in stone for all time. Yet the carved gargoyles of personal histories excavated from a widening global context and told in vernaculars as old and varied as history itself challenge us with a new and more complex story that is yet in the making, providing a platform to sustain a vibrant culture of innovation and groundbreaking scholarship at TC. -
Obama's North Korea Conundrum
Victor D. Cha What Do They Really Want?: Obama’s North Korea Conundrum We remained deadlocked over a particular clause in the document. Our counterparts across the table demanded language that we thought to be unacceptable. Yet, in an effort to move the already faltering negotiations forward, we agreed to send the language back to Washington overnight for approval. This was the fourth round of the Six-Party Talks in September 2005. The talks had been suspended previously for well over a year, and the Bush administration, in its second term, was reengaging in a way that the first term had not. At issue was the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) demand that we put into writing a statement of U.S. non-hostile intent. The clause in question stipulated that the United States ‘‘has no intention to attack or invade the DPRK with nuclear or conventional weapons.’’1 To my surprise, the language came back the next morning having been approved in Washington. When we came back to the negotiation session at the Diaoyutai State Guest House with the accepted language, the Russians asked the Chinese chair for a recess from the deputy head of delegations drafting session. During the recess, they held a bilateral meeting with the North Koreans. In this meeting, they told the North, according to my Russian counterpart on their delegation, ‘‘The Americans are serious. You see this [clause]? This is called a negative security assurance. We tried to get this from them throughout the Cold War and were unsuccessful.’’ The author is the inaugural holder of the Korea Chair at CSIS, and adjunct senior fellow at the Pacific Council in Los Angeles. -
Light Through the Darkness
LIGHT THROUGH THE DARKNESS IMPROVING THE HUMAN CONDITION IN NORTH KOREA. DEFINING A NEW PATH FORWARD. A CALL TO ACTION PAPER - JANUARY 2015 Victor Cha, Fellow in Human Freedom GEORGE W. BUSH INSTITUTE Housed within the George W. Bush Presidential Center, the George W. Bush Institute is an action-oriented, non- partisan policy organization with the mission of engaging communities in the United States and around the world by cultivating leaders and advancing policies to solve today’s most pressing challenges. It raises current and thought- provoking issues and builds programs to address these issues. The work of the Bush Institute is inspired by the principles that guided the Bushes in public life: that to whom much is given, much is required; belief in American ideals and leading with conviction; in service to Nation and leadership globally; in open societies ordered by liberty, and moral conviction; in private markets, humanized by compassionate government; and in communities structured to protect the weak and respect the rights of all. HUMAN FREEDOM INITIATIVE The Bush Institute’s Human Freedom initiative seeks to advance the development of free societies rooted in individual liberty, civil society, and democratic institutions and practices. Our programs provide a continuum of support for freedom advocates leading nonviolent change in countries that are closed, in transition to democracy, or in retreat from democracy. We advocate for U.S. global leadership and engagement as essential to increasing freedom in the world. VICTOR CHA, Fellow in Human Freedom, George W. Bush Institute As a Fellow in Human Freedom, Victor Cha is helping lead an initiative on the problem of human rights in North Korea. -
Assessing the Singapore Summit—Two Years Later
STRATEGIC STUDIES QUARTERLY - POLICY FORUM Assessing the Singapore Summit— Two Years Later n 12 June 2018, President Donald J. Trump and Kim Jong-Un met in Singapore for the first- ever meeting of a sitting US presi- dent with the leader of North Korea. The two men, to much fan- Ofare, shook hands in front of a row of six American and six North Korean flags. The now iconic image of the Trump- Kim handshake heralded the possibility of a better future between the two nations. At the conclusion of the summit, Trump and Kim cast aside 70 years of mutual enmity between their two nations, jointly pledging “a new future” of peaceful relations and the “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”1 President Trump hailed the summit as a triumph. “Everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office,” he declared on Twitter. “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.”2 Two years later, that optimism is gone. A second Kim- Trump summit, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2019, ended abruptly without even a hand- shake, much less an agreement on how to move forward on denucleariza- tion or progress on sanctions relief.3 A few months later, the two leaders met once more—this time in the heavily fortified demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas—and agreed to restart negotiations.4 But that meeting has since proved little more than a photo op. Working- level talks between the US and North Korea have stagnated. The last round of talks, held in October 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden, ended after only eight hours of discussion. -
Classroom Laptops Re-Examined
The Mosaic A PUBLICATION OF THE HUGH N. BOYD JOURNALISM DIVERSITY WORKSHOP AT MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY IN WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ JULY 27, 2007 Classroom How moved are we? laptops re-examined BY SHARON KIM STAFF WRITER In the fall of 2006, school districts, such as Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, installed laptops in classrooms to facilitate learning and to motivate students. At first, this seemed like a brilliant idea to school administrations: paperless classrooms, instant information and the convenience of cut-and-paste. Brian Kwee, a senior at Bergen County Academies, said, “I think that laptops are useful tools in our school. With these laptops, students can save time with their research.” Because of these advantages, the Pascack Valley High School District launched “1:1 Laptop eLearning Initiative,” a program that gave faculty and students wireless laptops. This four-year project was implemented Marta Paczkowska/Staff Photographer in 2004 to change the way teachers teach A handkerchief is draped over a concert goer’s head at the Live Earth concenrt held at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ on July 7. and students learn. The administration believed that with access to any information any time, students were better prepared for their education. Concert inspires environmental change According to a presentation by Paul Cohen, assistant superintendent at the BY MARTA PACZKOWSKA namely by making everyday eco-friendly asked if he signed the pledge after seeing Pascack Valley Regional High School, STAFF WRITER choices and signing a seven-point pledge, the concert at Giants Stadium, Jeff Laux, to the school’s Board of Education in devised by Gore to support “green” a freshman at the College of New Jersey, February 2004, studies showed technology S.O.S. -
Testimony of Victor Cha Before the UN Commission of Inquiry on North Korean Human Rights October 31, 2013 Washington, D.C
Testimony of Victor Cha before the UN Commission of Inquiry on North Korean Human Rights October 31, 2013 Washington, D.C. Commissioners Donald Kirby (Australia), Sonja Biserko (Serbia) and Marzuki Darusman (Indonesia) Dr. Victor Cha is Senior Adviser for Asia and the inaugural holder of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He also holds the D.S. Song-KF Chaired Professorship in Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University, where he is also director of the National Resource Center for Asian Studies in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. He served as Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council from 2004 through May 2007. Dr. Cha was also the Deputy Head of Delegation for the United States at the Six Party Talks in Beijing Thank you to the Commission of Inquiry for their work thus far on an important topic. For too long, human rights abuses in North Korea have been cast aside for so-called higher priorities in policy with North Korea. Yet when unification comes one day, and all is revealed, we will be witness to one of the worst human rights abuses in modern world history. I will organize my remarks, Mr. Chairman, around three issues this morning: 1) U.S. policy; 2) China’s responsibilities; and 3) the potential for hope and change in North Korean society. U.S. policy Mr. Chairman, as you are aware, North Korean human rights has not traditionally been a high priority in U.S. policy to the North. The primary focus has been on the security threat in two respects: 1) conventional deterrence of a second North Korean invasion; and 2) denuclearization. -
Not Much Below the Surface?
Not Much Below the Surface? Not Much Below the Surface? North Korea’s Nuclear Program and the New SLBM By Markus Schiller, Robert H. Schmucker, and J. James Kim In May 2015, only a month after key figures in the U.S. military publicly acknowledged the possibility that North Korea has perfected the miniaturization of a nuclear warhead for long-range delivery, the secretive country seems to have confirmed these claims with a series of announcements, including a "successful" submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test at sea.1, 2 While many experts question the authenticity of these claims, the latest announcements do warrant closer scrutiny, given their implications for regional stability and order.3 We will begin our discussion with a technical analysis of the latest available evidence about North Korea's missile technology. Note that we will not consider the claims related to miniaturization, given that there is little open source information to confirm or disprove these claims. Instead, we provide an assessment of the so-called “KN-11” based on official photographs and a video released by the North Korean KCNA. The results of our finding are inconclusive - meaning there is not enough evidence supporting (or refuting) the existence of a functional ICBM or SLBM in North Korea. In the second part of our discussion, we will explore North Korea's intentions by considering the broader political context within which this latest set of announcements has been made. We argue that these moves correspond to past patterns of North Korean behavior and are likely to be driven by the leadership's desire to seek attention and possibly draw the United States to the bargaining table whereby North Korea can win important concessions. -
A Case Study of the Naz Foundation's Campaign to Decriminalize Homosexuality in India Preston G
SIT Graduate Institute/SIT Study Abroad SIT Digital Collections Capstone Collection SIT Graduate Institute Winter 12-4-2017 Lessons for Legalizing Love: A Case Study of the Naz Foundation's Campaign to Decriminalize Homosexuality in India Preston G. Johnson SIT Graduate Institute Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/capstones Part of the Civic and Community Engagement Commons, Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Criminal Law Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, History of Gender Commons, Human Rights Law Commons, Law and Gender Commons, Law and Society Commons, Legislation Commons, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons, Litigation Commons, Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation Commons, Political Science Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons, Sexuality and the Law Commons, Social Policy Commons, Sociology of Culture Commons, and the South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Johnson, Preston G., "Lessons for Legalizing Love: A Case Study of the Naz Foundation's Campaign to Decriminalize Homosexuality in India" (2017). Capstone Collection. 3063. https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/capstones/3063 This Thesis (Open Access) is brought to you for free and open access by the SIT Graduate Institute at SIT Digital Collections. It has been accepted for inclusion in Capstone Collection by an authorized administrator of SIT Digital Collections. For more information, please contact [email protected]. -
US-Japan Strategic Dialogue
hosted by PACIFIC FORUM CSIS and sponsored by the U.S. DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY U.S.-ROK Strategic Dialogue Royal Lahaina Resort Lahaina, Maui July 26-28, 2009 AGENDA July 26, 2009 – SUNDAY Participants Arrive 6:30 PM Welcome Reception and Dinner – Villas Lawn July 27, 2009 – MONDAY 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast – Oahu Room 9:00 AM Opening Remarks (Introductions, dialogue background, expectations) 9:30 AM Session 1: Perceptions of the Asian Security Environment U.S. presenter: Evans Revere ROK presenter: Hwang Jae-ho This session explores each country’s view of the regional security environment, to identify issues, and highlight shared and divergent concerns. What are the principle strategic threats to each country and to regional security and stability? How have the threat perceptions and concerns changed in recent years? 11:00 AM Coffee Break 11:15 AM Session 2: Perspectives on the NPT, the PSI, and other Counter-Proliferation Regimes ROK presenter: Hong Kyudok U.S. presenter: Katy Oh-Hassig The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, in particular the spread of nuclear weapons, has been identified as one of the top security threats by President Obama and in numerous U.S. national security documents. How effective is the NPT and other unilateral, bilateral, and multilateral countering proliferation regimes? What could be done to make them more effective? How do documents like the American NPR and QDR influence ROK decision-makers? 12:30 PM Lunch – Ocean Front Lawn 1 July 27, 2009 - MONDAY (cont’d.) 1:30 PM Session 3: Perspectives on Asian Nuclear Dynamics U.S. -
I. Vacancy List
WNJT-FM/WNJO(FM)/WNJP(FM)/WNJY-FM/ WNYC(AM)/WNYC-FM/WQXR-FM/WQXW(FM) EEO PUBLIC FILE REPORT February 1, 2013 through January 31, 2014 I. VACANCY LIST See Master Recruitment Source List (MRSL) for recruitment source data Recruitment Sources (RS) RS Referring Job Title Used to Fill Vacancy Hiree 3-18, 19- 31, 35-39, 40-55, 57-104, 106-109, 113- Account Manager 114, 116, 118, 120-121, 124-129, 130-140, 146- 147 147, 149-150, 154, 163, 168, 171-283 3-31, 35-55, 57-104, 106-109, 113-114, 116, 118, Assistant Director, 168 120-121, 124-128, 130-140, 146-147, 149-150, 154, Engineering Operations 157, 160, 163, 167, 168, 171-283 Assistant Producer, 3-31, 35-55, 57-104, 106-109, 113-114, 116, 118, Freakonomics 120-121, 124-128, 130-140, 142, 146-147, 149-150, 147 154, 163, 165, 168, 171-283 Assistant Producer 3-31, 35-55, 57-104, 106-109, 113-114, 116, 118, Freakonomics 120-121, 124-128, 130-140, 142, 146-147, 149-150, 164 154, 163, 164, 165, 168, 171-283 3-23, 24-31, 35-55, 57-104, 106-109, 118, 120-121, Assistant Producer, 124-129, 130-140, 146-147, 149-150, 154, 157, 168 WQXR 163, 164, 168, 171-283 Assistant Production 3-18, 19- 31, 35-39, 101-104, 106-108, 113-114, Manager 116, 120-121, 124-126, 129, 147, 163, 167, 168, 168 171-283 3-23, 24-31, 35-55, 57-104, 106-109, 116, 118, 120- Assistant Program 121, 124-129, 130-140, 146-147, 149-150, 154, 168 Director 157, 160, 163, 170, 168, 171-283 WNJT-FM/WNJO(FM)/WNJP(FM)/WNJY-FM/ WNYC(AM)/WNYC-FM/WQXR-FM/WQXW(FM) EEO PUBLIC FILE REPORT February 1, 2013 through January 31, 2014 Recruitment Sources -
Websites for Math
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