Reconciled
Publics vs. Polarized Politicians:
Korea-Japan Relations after the End of the Cold War
25 January
2006
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About
This Seminar :
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Main
Speaker:
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Dr.
Park will
talk about the development of Korea-Japan relations during
the past few years, especially focusing on their recent
troubled ties. As the “Korea Wave” currently
taking place in Japan and the increase of cultural exchanges
suggest, the Korean and Japanese people have already made
an historical reconciliation with each other. On the political
and diplomatic fronts however, conflict and confrontation
prevail. Politicians are polarized due to domestic political
concerns and evolving regional environments. Dr. Park will
analyze the roots of cooperation and conflict between Korea
and Japan, and will discuss how to improve bilateral relations.
He will also examine the role of the U.S. in Korea-Japan
relations.
Transcript
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Dr. Park
Cheol-hee
Assistant Professor
Seoul National University
Discussants:
Dr. Kent Calder
Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Center
for
East Asian Studies, SAIS
Dr. Kojo Yoshiko
Professor of International Relations
University of Tokyo
Moderator:
Dr. Charles Kupchan
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University
Director of European Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
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This event is supported
in part by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan .
About
the Main Speaker
Dr. Park
Cheol-hee is Assistant Professor at the
Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University.
His major field of study is Japanese
politics and diplomacy. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at the
Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS) under the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Korea, where he was in charge of Japanese
affairs. Between 1999 and 2002, he was an Associate Professor at the
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan. In 2005 he received
the first Nakasone Yasuhiro Award. Dr. Park received a B.A. and M.A.
from Seoul National University, and earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
He has written many articles on Japanese politics and Korea-Japan relations,
including “Political Dynamics of Regime Transformation in Japan
in the 1990s,” Japanese Journal of Political Science (2004).
His columns regularly appear in the Chosun Ilbo, Joongang Ilbo, Asahi
Shimbun, and Mainichi Shimbun.
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About
the Discussants
Dr. Kent Calder is Director of The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East
Asian Studies, Director of Japan Studies, and Director of the Korea
Initiative at The Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International
Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. Previously he was Professor
of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, where
he taught for twenty years. He also served as Special Advisor to
the U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1997-2001. He was Japan Chair at
the Center for Strategic and International Studies from 1989-1993
and 1996. He has also been Executive Director of the Harvard University
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Dr. Calder received his Ph.D. from
Harvard. He is the author of Crisis and Compensation, recipient of
the 1990 Arisawa and Ohira Prizes, Pacific Defense, recipient of
the 1997 Mainichi Asia-Pacific Prize, and Strategic Capitalism, as
well as co-author or editor of several other works.
Dr. Kojo Yoshiko is
Professor of International Relations at the University of Tokyo and
currently Visiting Scholar at SAIS. Previously she was
an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Kokugakuin University.
Dr. Kojo received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tokyo and
a Ph.D. from Princeton University. She has published numerous books
and articles, including “Japan’s Choice of Negotiating
Framework in Multi-layered International Economic Relations,” in
Global Governance: Germany and Japan in the International System (2004), International
Politics, vol. 3: Globalization and International Politics (2004, editor, in Japanese) and “Japan’s Changing
Attitude toward Adjusting Its Current Account Surplus” in New
Perspectives on U.S.-Japan Relations (2000).
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About
the Moderator
Dr.
Charles A. Kupchan is
Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service
and Government Department,
Georgetown University. He is also Senior Fellow and Director of European
Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Kupchan was Director
for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the
first Clinton administration, and has also worked at the U.S. Department
of State on the Policy Planning Staff. He received a B.A. from Harvard
University and M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University.
He is the author of The End of the American Era (2002), Power
in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001), Civic
Engagement in the Atlantic Community (1999), and numerous
articles on international and strategic affairs.
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