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The Program's activities focus on five geographical areas---China, Japan, Korea, Australia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
In addition, the program arranges events that address cross-regional and global comparative topics.
Among the priorities of the Program are:
• political and economic developments in China and Taiwan;
• the difficult pattern of U.S.-China-Taiwan relations;
• domestic change in Japan, as well as Tokyo’s evolving regional leadership role;
• U.S.-South Korean relations and the effort to tame the North Korean challenge;
• democratic change and reform in Southeast Asia;
• political Islam in Asia, and the Asian dimensions of the global war on terrorism; and
• security issues and domestic developments in the countries of South Asia, with special emphasis on India and Pakistan.
The program is directed by Robert M. Hathaway, a diplomatic historian and veteran Capitol Hill staffer who helped fashion the U.S. Congress's foreign and national security policies toward Asia for more than a dozen years.
Former Directors of the Asia Program
• George R. Packard, Founder, 1977-1979
• Harry Harding, Program Secretary, 1979-1980
• Ronald A. Morse, Program Secretary, 1980-1987
• David Shambaugh, Acting Program Secretary, 1987-1988
• Mary Brown Bullock, Program Secretary, 1988-1995
• Warren I. Cohen, Consulting Director, 1995-1999
• Robert M. Hathaway, 1999-Present
For more information, contact us by e-mail or by telephoning (202) 691-4020.
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