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The Asia Program provides a forum for bringing historical depth and contemporary understanding of Asia to the nation's capital. It seeks to furnish an intellectual link between the world of learning and the world of public affairs, specifically on issues relating to Asia. The Program organizes seminars, workshops, briefings, and conferences featuring prominent Asia scholars and policymakers with hands-on experience in shaping Asia policy.
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Publications
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Hard Sell: Attaining Pakistani Competitiveness in Global Trade
This volume examines Pakistan's trade challenges--and particularly how to make its exports more globally competitive. The book's 13 contributors assess Pakistan's recent trade performance; analyze the societal effects of trade in Pakistan; and review Pakistan's regional trade and the Pakistan-U.S. trade relationship. Co-edited by Michael Kugelman and Robert M. Hathaway. Free copies available by writing to asia@wilsoncenter.org.
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News
Energy Band-Aids
In a May 21 op-ed in the Daily Times, Asia Program director Robert M. Hathaway and associate Michael Kugelman argue that Pakistan’s new energy conservation measures fall short of addressing Pakistan’s energy crisis. Hathaway and Kugelman lay out a “comprehensive strategy” that would allow Pakistan to meet its energy needs.
Click here to read the op-ed.
Getting to true democracy
Struggling with the notion of "true democracy" in the context of Pakistan's volatile politics and poor institutional base, Wilson Center 2007-08 Pakistan Scholar Samia Altaf worries about the viability of leadership,that prefers loyalty and respectability over specific skills and qualifications. Recruitment of competent candidates, based on merit and equality, Dr. Altaf suggests, will help build institutions that sustain democracy.
Pakistan’s Economic Mess—and Washington’s Opportunity
In recent weeks, food inflation has spread across the globe. However, according to Asia Program associate Michael Kugelman in an April 25 commentary, Pakistani consumers have faced high food costs for months. Increasing food prices, general inflation, and energy shortages have triggered an economic crisis in Pakistan that "threatens to reverse the gains" of last February's elections. Yet the United States, Mr. Kugelman argues, can take steps to help ease Pakistan's economic strife.
Dynastic Politics
The Wilson Center's 2007-08 Pakistan Scholar, Samia Altaf, looks at South Asia's tradition of political dynasties -- and warns that Pakistan has not broken free of dynastic politics simply because of one successful election. For Dr. Altaf's article in the March 27, 2008 edition of The News.
It's the leadership, stupid
The Wilson Center's 2007-08 Pakistan Scholar, Samia Altaf, critiques the quality of political leadership in Pakistan in a thought-provoking op-ed from the March 27, 2008 edition of Dawn.
LEVERAGE and LARGESSE in U.S.-PAKISTAN RELATIONS
Why hasn't the United States gotten more for the $10+ billion it has provided Pakistan in recent years? Asia Program director Robert M. Hathaway wrestles with this question in an article in the March 2008 issue of the journal Contemporary South Asia.
Time for Apologies
Pakistan Scholar Samia Altaf calls for apologies from Pakistan's major political and military figures and more effective oversight to constrain future governments in the March 12, 2008, issue of Dawn.
Governance in South Asia
U.S.-Pakistan Relations
In an article in the March 7, 2008, Friday Times, Asia Program director Robert M. Hathaway suggests that as the two countries consider how best to restructure their bilateral relations in the aftermath of Pakistan’s February elections, it might be useful for Islamabad and Washington to think in terms of mutually reinforcing obligations toward each other.
U.S. Assistance to Pakistan
Testimony of Robert M. Hathaway before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on International Development, Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs, and International Environmental Protection
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Event Summaries
Chinese Imperialism on the Korean Peninsula: A Historical Window on Sovereignty and Power Relationships
Monday, June 09 2008, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Speakers: Kirk W. Larsen, George Washington University; Christine Kim, Georgetown University; David Kang, Dartmouth College
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Pakistan's Economic Difficulties and Their Consequences
Wednesday, June 04 2008, 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Speaker: Shahid Javed Burki, Woodrow Wilson Center Senior Scholar and Chairman, Advisory Council, Institute of Public Policy, Lahore
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China's First U.S.-Style Law School
Wednesday, May 21 2008, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Jeffrey S. Lehman, Wilson Center Senior Fellow, Chancellor and Founding Dean of the School of Transnational Law, Beijing University
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Current and Future Prospects for Civilian Nuclear Power: U.S. and Japanese Perspectives
Thursday, May 08 2008, 3:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Speakers: Gregory B. Jaczko, commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Kenji Goto, minister for economy, trade, industry and energy at the embassy of Japan; Angie Howard, vice president and executive advisor to the president of the Nuclear Energy Institute; Takuya Hattori, president of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum; Thomas Cochran, director of the nuclear program at the Natural Resources Defense Council; Andrew Kadak, professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Jonathan Epstein, legislative fellow in the office of Senator Jeff Bingaman
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What Does China Want? The Intentions and Desires of a New World Power
Wednesday, May 07 2008, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
William Callahan, Wilson Center Fellow, professor of international politics at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, and co-director of the British Inter-university China Centre, Oxford University; Susan Shirk, director of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and professor of political science, University of California, San Diego; Jeffrey V. Legro, Compton professor of world politics and chair, Department of Politics, University of Virginia
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Japan's Declining Population: Clearly a Problem, But What's the Solution?
Thursday, April 24 2008, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Speakers: Robin LeBlanc, Washington and Lee University; Leonard Schoppa, University of Virginia; Keiko Yamanaka, University of California, Berkeley; Jennifer Robertson, University of Michigan
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South Asia's Nuclear Tests, Ten Years Later: So What?
Wednesday, April 23 2008, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Speakers: Robert Einhorn, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Devin Hagerty, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Peter Lavoy, National Intelligence Officer for South Asia; Naeem Salik, Visiting Scholar, SAIS
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Asia Program
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: asia@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4020
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