Mr. Zhang Yunling is Director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific
Studies, Professor of International Economics, and Director of the
APEC Policy Research Center at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
(CASS). He is also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, National
Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
He served as a member of the East Asian Vision Group (2000-01), China-ASEAN
Cooperation Official Expert Group (2001), and Task Force of ASEM
(2003-04). He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and
the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He also was
a senior visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and a visiting professor at the European University Institute. Mr.
Zhang was educated at Shandong University and the Graduate School
of CASS. His major publications include East Asian Cooperation:
Searching for an Integrated Approach (2004), International
Environment for China in the Coming 10-15 Years (2003), and China-U.S.-Japan
Relations in Transition (1997)
Dr. Marcus Noland is Senior Fellow at the Institute for International
Economics. Previously he was a senior economist at the Council
of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President
of the U.S., and has held research or teaching positions at the
Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern California,
and the University of Tokyo. He has received fellowships sponsored
by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Council
on Foreign Relations, and the Council for the International Exchange
of Scholars. Dr. Noland received a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins
University. His publications include Industrial Policy in
an Era of Globalization: Lessons from Asia (2003), No
More Bashing: Building a New Japan-United States Economic Relationship (2001),
and Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas (2000),
winner of the Ohira Prize.
Mr. Taniguchi Tomohiko is Visiting Fellow at the Center for Northeast
Asian Policy Studies, the Brookings Institution. He is an expert on Japanese
political economy and Japanese financial diplomacy. Mr. Taniguchi is Editor-at-Large
of Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. Previously he was chief senior writer
at Nikkei Business and bureau chief of the Nikkei Business European Editorial
Bureau, London. While in London he was president of the Foreign Press Association.
He has also been a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Institute of International
Studies, and a Fulbright visiting fellow at Princeton University. Mr. Taniguchi
received a B.A. from the University of Tokyo. He has published Current
World from both Vertical and Horizontal Angles (Tate Yomi Yoko Yomi Sekai Jihyo,
2004) and Japan’s Banks and the “Bubble Economy” of the
Late 1980s (1993).
Dr. Kent Calder is Director of The Edwin O. Reischauer
Center for East Asian Studies, Director of Japan Studies, and Edwin
O. Reischauer Professor of East Asian Studies 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. Dr. Calder also served as Special Advisor
to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1977-2001. 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, and lecturer on government at Harvard.
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.
East Asia as a region has gradually developed common or shared
interests in the areas of economics,
politics,
security and culture, which constitute the foundation of East
Asian regionalism. Professor Zhang will discuss how the region’s
diversity, historical grievances, and current contradictions
have weakened consensus building toward regionalism. He will
explore why East Asian regionalism has not been able to create
a real East Asian community with a clearly defined approach
and goals. Professor Zhang will also discuss the role of East
Asian integration and its influence in the region.
This event is supported in part by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan.
