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Fellow for Southeast Asia
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Phone: +1.202.509.8473
E-mail: jkurlantzick@cfr.org
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Washington, DC
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Former foreign correspondent and journalist covering Southeast Asia. Current research focuses on reinvigorating U.S. policy toward Southeast Asia, China's strategy toward Southeast Asia, and lessons of Indonesia as a successful Muslim-majority democracy. Author of Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World, released in 2006, and of numerous articles and briefs on Southeast Asia, China, and democratization in the developing world.
CFR experts give their take on the cutting-edge issues emerging in Asia today.
Read the Blog Asia Unbound
Southeast Asia, China; Asian regionalism; public diplomacy; democratization in the developing world.
Languages:Thai (fluent).
Honors:Luce Scholar; 2008 CFR Arthur Ross Book Award finalist.
Selected Publications:Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World (Yale University Press, 2006).
Current Research Project
March 12, 2010
Op-Ed
Newsweek
Joshua Kurlantzick says, "A global decline in political freedom is partly the fault of the middle class."
See more in Thailand, Democracy and Human Rights
March 1, 2010
Op-Ed
Newsweek
Joshua Kurlantzick says the West now ignores human rights.
See more in Human Rights, U.S. Strategy and Politics
February 8, 2010
Op-Ed
Newsweek
Joshua Kurlantzik argues, "the age of global human-rights advocacy has collapsed."
See more in China, Human Rights
February 7, 2010
Op-Ed
The Boston Globe
Joshua Kurlantzick argues that America will not be giving way to Asia as the global hegemon anytime soon.
See more in Asia, China, India, U.S. Strategy and Politics
February 5, 2010
Op-Ed
Newsweek
Joshua Kurlantick draws lessons for Haiti from the tsunami in Indonesia.
January 2010
Article
Current History
Joshua Kurlantzick discusses rising nationalist sentiment among Asian nations.
See more in Asia, Nationalism
December 13, 2009
Op-Ed
Washington Post
The irony of President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is that he has actually dialed down support for human rights around the world, writes Joshua Kurlantzick.
See more in International Peace and Security, Foreign Policy History, Presidency
December 9, 2009
Op-Ed
The New Republic
Joshua Kurlantzick questions the Obama administration's re-engagement of Burma, pointing out that in the past "the Burmese regime has softened just enough to win concessions, before reverting to its natural state."
See more in Burma/Myanmar, Democracy and Human Rights, Diplomacy
November 23, 2009
Op-Ed
The Boston Globe
The fact that President Obama did not predict the decline of Chinese communism was an important shift in rhetoric that was otherwise in line with what U.S. president's before him have said, writes Joshua Kurlantzick.
See more in China, Democracy and Human Rights, Political Movements
November 12, 2009
Transcript
Evan Feigenbaum and Joshua Kurlantzick discuss President Obama's tour of Asia and U.S. policy in the region.
November 11, 2009
Audio
Ahead of President Obama's trip to Asia to participate in summits with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as well as bilateral meetings in Tokyo, Beijing, and Seoul, CFR Fellows Evan Feigenbaum, Joshua Kurlantzick, and Sheila Smith discuss the security and economic issues that will dominate his agenda.
See more in Asia, U.S. Strategy and Politics
November 3, 2009
Interview
Ahead of President Obama's Asia trip, CFR experts Sheila Smith, Joshua Kurlantzick, Elizabeth Economy, and Scott Snyder discuss what the president should focus on during his visit to Japan, Singapore, China, and South Korea.
See more in Asia, U.S. Strategy and Politics
October 25, 2009
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Joshua Kurlantzick writes that, "if the U.S. relationship with Afghanistan eventually resembles the one we now have with Vietnam, we should be overjoyed."
See more in Afghanistan, Vietnam, Wars and Warfare, International Peace and Security, U.S. Strategy and Politics
September 28, 2009
Op-Ed
National Post
With its economy flourishing, China is finally making a real impact on the global stage, writes Joshua Kurlantzick.
See more in China, Economic Development, Global Governance
September 13, 2009
Op-Ed
The Boston Globe
Joshua Kurlantzick comments that the recent reelection of President Yudhoyono was "only the capstone of a triumphant decade for Indonesia."
See more in Indonesia, Democracy and Human Rights, Elections
September 4, 2009
Op-Ed
The National
Joshua Kurlantzick takes a close look at the dynamics of Indonesian politics and society, offering a point of view that negates common assumptions about militancy and instability in that country.
See more in Indonesia, Democracy and Human Rights, Society and Culture, Terrorism, U.S. Strategy and Politics
August 9, 2009
Op-Ed
The Boston Globe
Joshua Kurlantzick comments on war crimes prosecutions in Cambodia.
See more in Cambodia, International Law
August 6, 2009
Op-Ed
London Review of Books
Joshua Kurlantzick reviews two recent works on Cambodia.
See more in Southeast Asia, Cambodia
July 10, 2009
Article
The New York Times
Joshua Kurlantzick reviews Nicholas Schmidle's To Live or To Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan.
See more in Pakistan, U.S. Strategy and Politics
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