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Asian
Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the U.S. and Asia Sino-Indian
Competition and the Burma Imbroglio
This event is supported in part by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan . Brahma Chellaney is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He is also a Member of the Policy Advisory Group headed by the Foreign Minister of India. Until January 2000, Professor Chellaney was an adviser to India’s National Security Council, serving as convenor of the External Security Group of the National Security Advisory Board. A specialist on international strategic and arms control issues, Professor Chellaney has held appointments at Harvard University, the Brookings Institution, the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and the Australian National University. He received his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He is the author of four books, the latest being Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India and Japan (HarperCollins). He has published research papers in International Security, Orbis, Survival, Washington Quarterly, Security Studies, and Terrorism, among others. Professor Chellaney is also a newspaper columnist and television commentator. He regularly contributes opinion articles to the International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, The Asian Age, and The Hindustan Times. About the Discussants
Derek
J. Mitchell is Senior
Fellow and Director for Asia in the International Security Program
at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies.
Mr. Mitchell was Special Assistant for Asian and Pacific affairs
in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1997 to 2001. He was the
principal author of the Department of Defense 1998 East Asia Strategy
Report, and he received the Office of the Secretary of Defense
Award for Exceptional Public Service in January 2001. Prior to
joining
DOD, Mitchell served as senior program officer for Asia and the former Soviet
Union at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
In 1989, he worked as an editor and reporter at the China Post
on Taiwan.
From 1986 to 1988, he served as assistant to the senior foreign
policy adviser to Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Mitchell received
a Master
of Arts degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1991 and
a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in 1986.
He also studied Chinese language at Nanjing University. He is the
coauthor of China: The Balance Sheet—What the World Needs to
Know Now about the Emerging Superpower (2006) and coeditor of China
and the
Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the 21st Century
(2007). Charles A. Kupchan is Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department, Georgetown University, and 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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