Amy Studdart
Amy Studdart is a Program Officer for Asia at the German Marshall Fund of the United States where she helps co-ordinate the bi-annual Stockholm China Forum, contributes to programming on Korea and Japan and represents GMF's Asia program in Brussels. She started her career at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she took the lead on outreach and Asia programming at the then-newly established Europe office. Her current focus is on the China-DPRK relationship and the EU's DPRK policy. She is also working on China's role in the Southern Atlantic, the implications of Chinese nationalism for European policymaking, and Europe-U.S. cooperation on China policy. Amy was born in Antigua and grew up in Grenada before moving to the UK for schooling. She has a BA in East Asian Studies from the University of Sheffield.
News Articles
Ignoring North KoreaApril 19, 2012
North Korea: A New Kim on the BlockDecember 21, 2011Despite tensions between Washington and Beijing, the primary U.S. concern in North Korea — containing Pyongyang’s nuclear proliferation and aggressive behavior — was not fundamentally at odds with that of the Chinese, which was to hold the regime together. There was too much at stake, and too few incentives, to do much more.That confluence was never more than a short-term arrangement, however, and it has just been terminated with the death of North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong-Il. 
An EU Model for Asia?October 29, 2010Despite being the largest meeting of heads of state and government in the world, the 8th Asia Europe Meeting (Asem) held in Brussels last week went largely unnoticed by the majority of the inhabitants of the two continents its members represent. Publications
China and India: New Actors in the Southern AtlanticNovember 29, 2012This policy paper examines the role of China and India in Latin America and Africa, and the implications for the United States and Europe.
International Trends: Korea 2012October 04, 2012This survey captures perceptions about how South Korea, Europe, and the United States are responding to global power shifts.
