Asian Voices Seminar Series

Fiscal Year 2009
[April, 2009 - March, 2010]

 

Regional Security and Okinawa in the U.S.-Japan Alliance

March 9th, 2010

James Auer, Director, Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies
Rust Deming, Adjunct Professor, Japan Studies, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
Akihiro Iwashita, Professor and Director of the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
Eiichi Katahara, Professor and Deputy Director of Research, National Institute for Defense Studies
Satu Limaye, Director, East-West Center in Washington
Shinichi Ogawa, Visiting Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Manabu Sato, Professor, Okinawa International University
Tomohiro Yara, Editorial Writer, Okinawa Times

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ASEAN and Regionalism in East Asia: Part of the launch of the new ASEAN Studies Center at American University

February 16th, 2010

Amitav Acharya, Chairman, ASEAN Studies Center
Alice Ba, Director, East Asian Studies, University of Delaware
Mely Caballero-Anthony, Head, Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Paul Evans, Director, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia
Hiro Katsumata, Assistant Professor, Waseda University
Satu Limaye, Director, East-West Center in Washington
Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, East Asia and Pacific Bureau, U.S. Department of State
Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General, Association of Southeast Asian Nations

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Japan, America and Asia

December 18th, 2009

Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State

 

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An Interim Assessment of Evolving U.S.-Burma/Myanmar Relations

December 17th, 2009

David Steinberg, Distinguished Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

 

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A Place Apart: Okinawa and the US-Japan Security Relationship

November 17th, 2009

Sheila Smith, Senior Fellow, Japan Studies and Director, New Regional Security Architecture for Asia, Council of Foreign Relations

 

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Myanmar/Burma: Outside Interests, Inside Challenges

October 30th, 2009

Priscilla Clapp, Former U.S. Charge/Yangon
David Dapice, Professor, Tufts University
GUO Xiaolin, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Security and Development Policy
Gurmeet Kanwal, Director, Centre for Land Warfare Studies
Jurgen Haacke, Senior Lecturer, London School of Economics
Khin Zaw Win, NGO leader, Yangon
Toshihiro Kudo, Director, Southeast Asian Studies Group II, Institute of Developing Economies
Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State
Andrew Selth, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
Tin Maung Maung Than, Senior Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
William Wise, Associate Director of Southeast Asia Studies, Johns Hopkins University - SAIS
Zhai Kun, Director, Institute of South and Southeast Asian Studies, CICIR, Beijing

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Japan's Foreign Policy under the New Administration

October 29th, 2009

Akihiro Iwashita, Director, Slavic Research Center
Nobumasa Akiyama, Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University

 

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Can the DPJ Revive Japan's Economy?

October 27th, 2009

Richard Katz, Editor in Chief, Oriental Economist

 

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Post-Election Political Update

Political Change Comes to Japan: What Lies Ahead

September 11th, 2009

Professor Gerald Curtis, Professor, Columbia University

 

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An Alliance of Maritime Nations: The United States and Japan

April 17th, 2009

The Honorable Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan, Member, House of Representatives
Masahiro Akiyama, Chairman, OPRF
Naoyuki Agawa, Professor and Dean, Keio University
Ralph Cossa, President, Pacific Forum CSIS
Vice Admiral William Douglas Crowder, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
Michael Green, Japan Chair, CSIS
The Honorable Yoshimasa Hayashi, Member, House of Councilors of Japan
James A. Kelly, President, EAP Associates; Former Assistant Secretary of State
Koji Murata, Professor, Doshisha University
Shotaro Yachi, Special Envoy of the Government of Japan
Shunji Yanai, Judge, International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea


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