Asia Program
Events
China's South China Sea Policy
November 16, 2010 // 3:00pm — 4:15pm
Anne Hsiao, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Changing Glaciers and Hydrology in Asia: Developing a Blueprint for Addressing Glacier Melt in the Region
November 16, 2010 // 9:00am — 11:00am
A new report highlights the complexity of the issues surrounding glacier melt in Asia, and the critical need to prepare today for future environmental changes.
Revisiting History: North Korea and Nuclear Weapons
November 03, 2010 // 4:00pm — 5:15pm
For most American observers, the North Korea (DPRK) nuclear issue begins in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as leaders in Pyongyang, faced with the loss of their Cold War alliance relationships and confronting unparalleled challenges to the survival of the regime, sought security through pursuit of nuclear weapons and diplomatic breakthroughs with the United States.
Playing With Fire: Why Pakistan's Democracy Is Losing Ground to Islamic Extremists
October 27, 2010 // 9:30am — 11:00am
Pam Constable, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Roundtable on China's Foreign Policy at the Bandung Conference, 1955
October 25, 2010 // 10:00am — 12:00pm
CANCELLED
Taiwan, ECFA, and the Politics of Free Trade
October 18, 2010 // 3:30pm — 5:30pm
Merrit "Terry" Cooke, Woodrow Wilson Center; Shelley Rigger, Davidson College; David G. Brown, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University
Civilian Harm and Amends in Pakistan: Stories of Struggle and Survival
October 14, 2010 // 11:00am — 12:30pm
Christopher Rogers, Pakistan Field Fellow, Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC); Huma Yusuf, Wilson Center Pakistan Scholar
The Emerging Global Economic Architecture: India-U.S. Partnership
October 07, 2010 // 3:00pm — 4:00pm
Pranab Mukherjee, Finance Minister of India
The Korean Workers' Party Third Conference: What Is It All About?
October 01, 2010 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
On September 28, the ruling Korean Workers' Party (KWP) convened its Third Conference in Pyongyang. The political gathering was used as a platform to unveil a number of leadership changes, including the appointment of Kim Jong Il's third son, Kim Jong Eun, as a Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission.