Mr.
Chung-in Moon is a professor of political sciences and director
of the Institute for Korean Unification Studies, Yonsei University.
Prior to joining the Yonsei faculty, he taught at the University of
Kentucky, Williams College, the University of California at San Diego,
and Duke University. Mr. Moon has published thirteen books and over
130 articles in edited volumes and such scholarly journals as World
Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of
Asian Studies, and Journal of Democracy. His recent publications
include Democratization and Globalization in South Korea, Democracy
and the Korean Economy, History, Cognition, and Peace, and
Arms Control on the Korean Peninsula. He currently serves as
an advisor to the National Security Council of the Office of the President,
the Ministry of National Defense, and the Ministry of Unification of
the Republic of Korea.
Mr.
Michael J. Green
is Senior Fellow for Asian Security Studies at the Council on Foreign
Relations. He is also acting director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center
for East Asian Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University (and a consultant to
the Office of the Secretary of Defense). Mr. Green, who received his
M.A. from SAIS in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1994, is a specialist on U.S.
foreign policy in Asia, Korean security, and U.S.-Japan relations. His
most recent books and monographs include Arming Japan: Defense Production,
Alliance Politics and the Postwar Search for Autonomy; State
of the Field Report: Research on Japanese Security Policy (National
Bureau of Asian Research); The U.S. -Japan Security Alliance in the
Twenty-first Century (co-authored, Council on Foreign Relations);
and a forthcoming co-edited volume, The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Past,
Present, and Future (Council on Foreign Relations). He was also
project director for the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task
Force report, Managing Change on the Korean Peninsula.
Mr.
Selig S. Harrison
is a Senior Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
a Fellow of The Century Foundation, and Director of the Foundation's
Project on the United States and the Future of Korea. He has visited
North Korea six times and met the late Kim Il Sung twice. In June 1994,
on his fourth visit, he met Kim for three hours and won a public pledge
of agreement to the concept of a freeze of the North Korean nuclear
program in exchange for U.S. political and economic concessions. President
Carter, meeting Kim Il Sung a week later, persuaded him to initiate
the freeze immediately, opening the way for negotiations with the United
States that resulted in the U.S.-North Korean nuclear agreement of October
21, 1994. Mr. Harrison is the author of five books on Asia and is currently
an Adjunct Professor of Asian Studies, George Washington University.
National division, the Korean War, and protracted military conflict on the Korean peninsula have long been considered a product of the Cold War bipolar structure. Likewise, strategic interactions among four major regional actors and the balance of power have dictated the nature of peace and stability on the Korean peninsula. Since the end of the Cold War, however, strategic parameters in the region have begun to change rapidly. Along with the changes, contending visions of future strategic position of a unified Korea have emerged. They include the maintenance of the status quo, aligning with the maritime power, aligning with the continental power, power projection as a middle power, and a permanent neutral state. The seminar will examine each of these future scenarios on Korea's strategic positioning in the post-unification period and make impact assessments of these scenarios on regional security.
