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