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Asian
Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the U. S. and Asia
2 March 2004
About the Panelists Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani is Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations. In his diplomatic career, he has served in Cambodia, Kuala Lampur, Washington, D.C. and New York. He is serving his second term as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United Nations. Ambassador Mahbubani was President of the Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002 when Singapore was serving on the UN Security Council. He was Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998. He also serves in various advisory capacities to organizations such as the International Peace Academy, New York, the Institute of International Education, New York, and the Global Strategy Group. Ambassador Mahbubani received a First Class honors degree in philosophy from the University of Singapore, and a Masters degree in philosophy and an honorary doctorate from Dalhousie University, Canada. He has published Can Asians Think (2002), several articles in leading journals and op-ed articles in newspapers and magazines. Dr. Kurt Campbell is Senior Vice-President and Director
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Before
joining CSIS, he worked at the Department of Defense as deputy assistant
director of defense, at the White House as deputy special counselor
to the president for NAFTA and as a member of the National Security
Council staff. Dr. Campbell has also been an associate professor
of public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
In addition, he was a fellow at the International Institute for Strategic
Studies in London and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He received a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego,
a Ph.D. in international relations from Oxford University and a certificate
in music and political philosophy from the University of Erevan in
Soviet Armenia. Dr. Campbell's publications include The Power
of Balance: 100 Strategic Insights into the Pacific Century (2003) and
To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign against Terrorism (principal author, 2001). Professor G. John Ikenberry is the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Global Justice at Georgetown University. He also has been a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Professor Ikenberry is the author of numerous publications, including, State Power and World Markets: The International Political Economy (2002), After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (2000), and Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (1988). About the Seminar Program The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program seeks to provide a forum for Asian voices to be heard within the Washington community-voices on a wide range of regional and global topics. The Seminar Program, however, will not be restricted solely to Asia-Pacific issues, or US-Japan relations, but will focus on the broader global questions that confront both parts of the world. For information or to register for this event, please contact Seminar Program at 202-296-6694 or at seminar@spfusa.org |
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