oct06 seminar


Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the U. S. and Asia

“The ROK-U.S. Alliance in Transformation:
Korean vs. Regional Dimensions”
Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

 
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The ROK-U.S. alliance has entered the process of transformation as the United States conducts its military transformation. While the Republic of Korea has accepted the Bush administration’s plan to transform the USFK into a rapid deployment force that tackles regional contingencies, it is concerned that the pace of transformation is too fast. Dr. Kim will discuss how Korea wants to expand the role of the ROK-U.S. alliance to a regional dimension in which the U.S. will play a balancing role between China and Japan. He will talk about the need for Korea to reconcile the challenges and opportunities of the alliance as it transforms itself from a Korean to a regional dimension.

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  • For information or to register for this event, please contact Seminar Program
    at 202-296-6694 or at
    seminar@spfusa.org
 

Dr. Kim Sung-han
Professor and Director-General for American Studies
Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea



Discussants:
Mr. Selig Harrison
Director of the Asia Program
Center for International Policy


Mr. Joel Wit
Senior Fellow
Center for Strategic & International Studies


Moderator:
Dr. G. John Ikenberry
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Princeton University





This event is supported in part by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan .

About the Panelists

Main Speaker

Dr. Kim Sung-han is Professor and Director-General for American Studies at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea. Currently, he is teaching at Korea University, an advisor to the ROK Ministry of National Defense and the National Security Council, and contributes columns regularly to The Korea Herald. Dr. Kim is the executive director of CSCAP (Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific) in Korea. Previously he was a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences and an expert advisor to the Prime Minister’s Committee for Globalization in 1992-94. Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin. He has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals, including “The End of Humanitarian Intervention?: U.S. Foreign Policy After 9/11,” “The ROK-U.S.-DPRK Trilateral Relationship,” and “U.S. Policy toward the Korean Peninsula and Korea-U.S. Relations.”

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Discussants

Mr. Selig Harrison is Director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy, a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and director of the Century Foundation’s Program on the United States and the Future of Korea. He is also adjunct professor of Asian studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Mr. Harrison has specialized in East Asia for fifty years as a journalist and scholar. His contact with Korea includes an interview with Kim Il-sung in 1972 and leading a Carnegie Endowment delegation to Pyongyang in 1992 that learned for the first time that North Korea had reprocessed plutonium. He has written six books, including Korea Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement (2002).

Mr. Joel Wit is Senior Fellow with the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He works on Northeast Asian security issues as well as weapons proliferation. He served for 15 years in the Department of State and most recently was the coordinator for the 1994 U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework. Mr. Wit has served as senior advisor to Robert L. Gallucci, ambassador at-large in charge of policy towards North Korea, where he worked on U.S. strategy to resolve the 1994 nuclear crisis, and has served in a variety of positions, primarily in the State Department’s Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs. He was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) talks and the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START). Mr. Wit received an M.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Bucknell University.

About the Moderator

Dr. G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Previously he taught at Georgetown University. Dr. Ikenberry 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. Dr. 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).

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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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