Asia Program
Events
Is Status Quo Destiny? China's Interests in Post-Kim Dynasty Korea
January 24, 2011 // 10:00am — 11:15am
Based on newly declassified Czech, (East) German, Russian, and Hungarian archival documents, Lerner explores the origins of North Korea's military adventurism in the late 1960s.
The Secession of East Pakistan in 1971 and the Question of Genocide
December 15, 2010 // 3:00pm — 4:30pm
Dirk Moses, Woodrow Wilson Center Australian Scholar
"Sugar Daddy Blues": Japan's Approach to Building Peace in Afghanistan
December 14, 2010 // 3:00pm — 4:15pm
Kuniko Ashizawa, Oxford Brookes University, and Japan Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
India's Economy: Managing the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis and Regaining Momentum
November 30, 2010 // 3:00pm — 4:15pm
Ajay Shankar, FICCI Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
China's South China Sea Policy
November 16, 2010 // 3:00pm — 4:15pm
Anne Hsiao, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Changing Glaciers and Hydrology in Asia: Developing a Blueprint for Addressing Glacier Melt in the Region
November 16, 2010 // 9:00am — 11:00am
A new report highlights the complexity of the issues surrounding glacier melt in Asia, and the critical need to prepare today for future environmental changes.
Revisiting History: North Korea and Nuclear Weapons
November 03, 2010 // 4:00pm — 5:15pm
For most American observers, the North Korea (DPRK) nuclear issue begins in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as leaders in Pyongyang, faced with the loss of their Cold War alliance relationships and confronting unparalleled challenges to the survival of the regime, sought security through pursuit of nuclear weapons and diplomatic breakthroughs with the United States.
Playing With Fire: Why Pakistan's Democracy Is Losing Ground to Islamic Extremists
October 27, 2010 // 9:30am — 11:00am
Pam Constable, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Roundtable on China's Foreign Policy at the Bandung Conference, 1955
October 25, 2010 // 10:00am — 12:00pm
CANCELLED
Taiwan, ECFA, and the Politics of Free Trade
October 18, 2010 // 3:30pm — 5:30pm
Merrit "Terry" Cooke, Woodrow Wilson Center; Shelley Rigger, Davidson College; David G. Brown, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University