Asia Program
Events
The Reluctant Dragon
May 23, 2002 // 12:00pm — 1:30pm
Lawrence C. Reardon, associate professor of political science, University of New Hampshire and Woodrow Wilson Center/George Washington University Asian Policy Studies fellow
War on Terrorism: Nepalese Perspectives
May 18, 2002 // 2:00pm — 3:00pm
A Director's Forum with His Excellency Sher Bahadur Deuba, Prime Minister of Nepal
War in South Asia
May 15, 2002 // 8:30am — 3:30pm
Sunil Khilnani, Woodrow Wilson Center & Birkbeck College, University of LondonItty Abraham, Social Science Research Council Charles Kennedy, Wake Forest University Apurba Kundu, University of BradfordFeroz Khan, Woodrow Wilson CenterAyesha Siddiqa-Agha, independent scholar, IslamabadJayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityRammanohar Reddy, The Hindu, Chennai (Madras) Deepa Ollapally, University of Pennsylvania & U.S. Institute of PeaceSamina Ahmed, International Crisis Group, IslamabadArvind Rajagopal, New York University Ashutosh Varshney, University of MichiganDennis Kux, Woodrow Wilson Center
China and the Antiterrorist War
May 09, 2002 // 3:30pm — 5:30pm
Four experts gathered in a May 9 seminar at the Woodrow Wilson Center to explore Beijing's relations with the Muslim population in Xinjiang as well as the implications for U.S. human rights policy and the antiterrorist war. The four speakers for the seminar were James Millward of Georgetown University, currently a Wilson Center/George Washington University Asian Policy Studies fellow, Ross Terrill of Harvard University, Gaye Christoffersen of the Naval Postgraduate School, and Gardner Bovingdon of Washington University. On the next day, Millward and Bovingdon spoke at a breakfast seminar on Capitol Hill on the same topic.
Book Launch: The Great North Korean Famine: Famine, Politics, and Foreign Policy
April 30, 2002 // 12:00am
Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
Towards an International History of the War in Afghanistan, 1979-89
29-30 April 2002
April 29, 2002 // 1:00am — 12:00am
What was behind the Soviet decision in December 1979 to invade Afghanistan? And why did Mikhail Gorbachev pull out Soviet troops 10 years later? What was the role of the U.S. covert assistance program, in particular the Stinger missiles? What role did CIA intelligence play? These were just some of the questions behind a major international conference organized in April by the Wilson Center's COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY PROJECT (CWIHP) in cooperation with the Center's ASIA PROGRAM and KENNAN INSTITUTE, George Washington University's Cold War Group, and the National Security Archive. Designed as a "critical oral history" conference, the discussions centered on newly released and translated U.S., Russian, Bulgarian, German, Czech, and Hungarian documents on the war. Conference participants included former Soviet officials and National Security Council (NSC), State Department, and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials from the Carter, Bush, and Reagan administrations, as well as scholarly experts from around the world.
Mongolia as the Link of Stability between Central and Northeast Asia
April 17, 2002 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Tsedendamba Batbayar, director, Policy Planning and Coordination Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mongolia, and Wilson fellow;Eric A. McVadon, rear admiral (retired) and independent security consultant;Nyamosor Tuya, fellow, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, and former minister of Foreign Affairs, Mongolia;Harry Harding, dean and professor, Elliot School of International Affairs, the George Washington University
Conflict Unending
April 08, 2002 // 12:00pm — 1:30pm
Sumit Ganguly, professor of Asian studies and government, University of Texas, Austin, and former Wilson Center fellow James Manor, professorial fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and Wilson Center fellow Devin Hagerty, assistant professor of political science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Regional Integration of Hong Kong and Guangdong: Hopes and Fears
April 08, 2002 // 12:00am
Christine Loh, Civic Exchange
Beyond Bilateralism
April 03, 2002 // 1:00pm — 4:00pm
Summary of a meeting with T.J. Pempel, University of California at Berkeley; John Ikenberry, Georgetown University; Akiko Fukushima, National Institute for Research Advancement, Tokyo; Saadia Pekkanen, Middlebury College; Jennifer Amyx, University of Pennsylvania; Ellis Krauss, University of California at San Diego