history and memory… Reading the Absences in Ramseyer’s “Comfort Women” Provocation 19 Feb 202120 Feb 2021 A new publication on Japan’s wartime system of military prostitution (‘Contracting for sex in the Pacific War,' International Review of Law and Economics [December 2020]) has generated a whirlwind of…
China… Joshua’s Map: Beijing’s Coverage of North Korean Defector Issues and Human Rights 23 Aug 201720 Aug 2017 In January/February 2015, the Huanqiu Shibao (the foreign affairs tabloid under Beijing People's Daily, massive readership etc.) used one of Joshua Stanton's maps to indicate the locations of North Korea's largest…
Borderlands… Evaded States: Security and Control in the Sino-North Korean Border Region 27 Jul 2017 Adam Cathcart, “Evaded States: Security and Control in the Sino-North Korean Border Region,” in Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands, Alexander Horstmann, Martin Saxer, Alessandro Rippa, eds., (Routledge: December 2017), forthcoming. The Chinese-Korean border…
American Foreign Policy… North Korean Human Rights: Rex Tillerson as Blank Slate 11 Jan 201711 Jan 2017 Will the Trump administration maintain and extend US pressure on North Korea on the human rights front? Will the Executive Branch aim to extend and intensify US criticism of and dialogue…
EU-East Asia relations… Questioning North Korea’s Narrative of the London Diplomat Defection 21 Aug 201621 Aug 2016 It took about three days for the North Korean state to put together the opening salvo to its official public response to the stunning defection of Thae Yong-ho from its…
Chinese communist party… Journalist Expulsions and Beijing’s Counterterrorism Narrative 26 Jan 2016 2015 was supposedly a triumphant year for the Chinese Communist Party, but the CCP seemed determined to end the year on a landslide of insecurity with respect to the foreign journalists…
EU-East Asia relations… From Hyesan to London: Hyeonseo Lee and the New North Korea Defector Memoir 2 Jul 2015 Hyeonseo Lee has produced an excellent memoir, a text which, along with John Sweeney and Emma Graham-Harrison, I will be discussing with her at an event organized by The Guardian…
