Monday, December 15th, 2008, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Dr. Zhu Feng is a professor at the School of International
Studies and Deputy Director of the Center for International and Strategic
Studies at Peking University. He is a leading Chinese security expert and
senior research fellow of the Center for Peace and Development of China. Dr.
Zhu sits on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, consults independently
for the Chinese government and private sector, and comments frequently on
television, radio, and in the print media on China’s foreign affairs
and security policy. He began his higher education at the Department of International
Politics of Peking University in 1981, and received his Ph.D. from Peking
University in 1991. Dr. Zhu writes extensively on regional security in East
Asia, the North Korean nuclear issue, American national security strategy,
China-US relations, and missile defense. His recent books are Ballistic
Missile Defense and International Security (Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Press,
2001), International Relations Theory and East Asian Security (Beijing: People’s
University Press, 2007), and China’s Ascent, Power Relations, and the
Future of International Security (co-edited with Prof. Robert S. Ross, Cornell
University Press, 2008).
Dr. Michael Mastanduno is Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government and
Associate Dean for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. Dr. Mastanduno
has been a guest faculty member at the Graduate School of Economics and International
Relations at Milan, the University of Tokyo, and the Geneva Center for Security
Policy. He has received fellowships from the Brookings Institution, the Council
of Foreign Relations, the East-West Center, and the Salzburg Seminar. He also
served as a special assistant in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Dr. Mastanduno served as Director of Dartmouth’s John Sloan Dickey Center
for International Understanding for six years. He will be the Hepburn-Shibusawa
Distinguished Senior lecturer at the University of Tokyo in the summer of
2009. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University
in 1985, and joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1987. His areas of research and
teaching specialization include international relations, United States foreign
policy, and the politics of the global economy. He is the author or editor
of numerous books including Economic Containment, Unipolar Politics, International
Relations Theory and the Asia Pacific, and U.S. Hegemony and International
Organizations.
Dr. Mitchell B. Reiss is Diplomat-in-Residence at the College of William & Mary
and holds appointments in the School of Law and the Government Department. At
the College, he has served as Vice Provost for International Affairs, and Dean
and Director of the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies.
From 2003-2005 he served as Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the
State Department and was asked to serve concurrently as the President’s
Special Envoy for the Northern Ireland Peace Process with the rank of Ambassador;
he continued in this position until 2007. Previously, Reiss helped manage the
start-up and operations of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
(KEDO). He started the nonproliferation and counterproliferation programs at
the Wilson Center, and also served as Special Assistant to the National Security
Advisor as a White House Fellow in 1988-89. He was a consultant to the Office
of the Legal Advisor at State, the General Counsel’s Office at the U.S.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Los Alamos and Livermore National
Laboratories. Dr. Reiss has a law degree from Columbia Law School and a D.Phil.
from Oxford University. He is the author of Bridled Ambition: Why Countries
Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities and Without the Bomb: The Politics of
Nuclear Non-proliferation, has contributed to eighteen other books, and has published
over 80 articles and reviews. He is currently conducting research on how states
negotiate with rogue regimes and terrorist groups.
China's role in regional security has been a controversial issue
since the demise of Soviet Union in 1991. Beijing's refusal to
abandon the use of force in pursuing a solution to the Taiwan
conflict, its military buildup, its oil-driven "go-out-strategy," are
enough to raise suspicions about its military intentions and
assertive behavior. The debate, however, revolves around its
constructive contribution and its negative impetus. Now the region
has been seeking to update security cooperation by moving beyond a
regional security set-up like ARF. There is enormous scholarly debate
about the feasibility of evolving the Six Party Talks into a
permanent security regime. Such a move would offer Beijing a crucial
moment to rethink its security surroundings and corresponding
reactions. It is not certain right now how quickly the DPRK might
accept a solid time frame for nuclear abandonment, but what is
certain is that the SIx Party Talks have provided a flexible
organizational foundation that already is endorsed and supported by
almost all regional members. The success of these talks will likely
prompt China, and others, to embark on building a permanent East
Asian multilateral security regime.
