Daniel Sneider in Central Asia

Daniel Sneider, a lecturer in international policy and East Asian studies at Stanford, has focused his research on Japanese, Korean, and U.S. foreign policy in Northeast Asia and on the formation of historical memory about the wartime period.  Previously he served as the associate director of the Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford.

Sneider is a former foreign correspondent who has served in Japan, Korea, India, and the former Soviet Union. As the Moscow bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor, Sneider covered the collapse of the Soviet Union and witnessed the birth of the independent nations of Central Asia and the Caucasus. He visited all the newly created nations of Central Asia, including interviewing all their post-Soviet leaders. He carried out award-winning reporting on the Caucasus, including on the first war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabakh, and conducted research on the region at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He continued to travel to Russia and to closely follow events in the region.

The son of a diplomat, Sneider spent much of his childhood in Asia and has authored a soon to be published diplomatic history of the creation and management of the U.S. security alliance with Japan. Dan is a frequent contributor to several major U.S. periodicals, as well as the widely read online edition of the leading Japanese weekly Toyo Keizai and the Peninsula blog of the Korea Economic Institute. In addition to serving as national/foreign editor at the Mercury News in San Jose, California, he also wrote a twice-weekly foreign affairs column for the newspaper that was syndicated nationally by the Knight Ridder news service.

• Lecturer and associate faculty member, Center for East Asian Studies and affiliate of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

• Former associate director for research, and director, the Divided Memories and Reconciliation project and the Nationalism and Regionalism project, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

• Visiting researcher, Canon Institute for Global Studies, Tokyo

• Former national/foreign editor, Mercury News; former syndicated columnist, Knight Ridder; Moscow bureau chief, 1990–1994, and Tokyo correspondent, 1985–1990, Christian Science Monitor

• Contributor, Toyo Keizai, East Asia Forum, New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Slate, National Interest, International Economy, and Christian Science Monitor

• MPA, public administration, 1985, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

• BA, East Asian history, 1973, Columbia University