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FALL 2009

November 16, 2009
"Rising India's Great Power Burden," C. Raja Mohan
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November 12, 2009
"Obama from a Southeast Asian Perspective," Amitav Acharya
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November 4, 2009
"Japan's New Government: Looking Under the Hood," Christopher Hughes, Richard Katz, Takashi Oka, Llewelyn Hughes
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September 30, 2009
"A Passage to America: The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream," Patrick Radden Keefe, Moises Naim
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September 28, 2009
"Emerging Powers in Asia: Are These Post-Colonial Empires?," Dibyesh Anand
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September 8, 2009
"The Changing World and China-U.S. Relations," Amb. Wu Jianmin
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SPRING 2009

May 14, 2009
13th Annual Gaston Sigur Memorial Lecture: "The United States and China: Still a 'Fragile Relationship'?" Harry Harding.
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April 23, 2009
"Globalization and Democracy: Lessons from India and Malaysia," Jomo K.S., Kaushik Basu, Bridget Welsh.
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April 8, 2009
"U.S.-South Asia Relations: A Perspective from the Region," Saleem Kidwai.
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March 4, 2009
"New Actors in Dhaka and Washington: Prospects for U.S.-Bangladeshi Relations," Ambassador M. Humayun Kabir.
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February 25, 2009
"New Coats on Old Tales: The Role of the Indian Epic in Modern Fiction," Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Manil Suri.
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February 18, 2009
"Caste and Affirmative Action: What Nepal Can Learn from India and Malaysia," Suvash Darnal.
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February 10, 2009
"The U.S. Role in a New Vision for Peace in Northeast Asia: Economic Ties and the "Fourth Wave" on the Korean Peninsula," Chung Dong-Young.
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FALL 2008

December 3, 2008
"Donors and Development: Understanding the Aid Crisis in Pakistan," Samia Altaf.
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November 19, 2008
"Dragon Lady: Reconsidering the Ambiguous Legacy of Madame Chiang Kai-shek in U.S.-China Relations," Laura Tyson Li.
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November 12, 2008
"Globalization and Migration in Asia: A View from Three Angles," A. Aneesh, Elizabeth Chacko, Weiping Wu, moderated by Marie Price.
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November 5, 2008
"Wealth into Power: The Communist Party's Embrace of China's Private Sector," Bruce Dickson and David Shambaugh.
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October 29, 2008
"International Relations of Asia," David Shambaugh and Michael Yahuda.
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October 29, 2008
"Crazy for Japan: Art and Political Agendas at the International Expositions in the Gilded Age," Hannah Sigur.
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October 22, 2008
"Taiwan as an International Economic Actor: Drivers, Partners and Prospects," Claude Barfield, Peter Chow, Rupert Hammond-Chambers, moderated by Bruce Dickson.
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October 9, 2008
"Conversations with a Maoist Revolutionary," Baburam Bhattarai.
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October 1, 2008
"Evaluating China's Persuasive Power: Cases from Southeast Asia," Evelyn Goh.
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September 18, 2008
"New Energy for the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal: Policy & Business Implications," Amb. Karl F. Inderfurth, Michael Krepon, Ted Jones, moderated by Deepa Ollapally.
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September 8, 2008
"Embedding Memory in Culture: Japan's Hiroshima & Korea's Kwangju," Mikyoung Kim.
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SUMMER 2008

June 26, 2008
"The Winds of Change in Taiwan: An Early Assessment of the Ma Government's Policy Directions," Elizabeth Freund Larus, Steven Phillips, Robert Sutter, moderated by Harry Harding.
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June 24, 2008
"Fighting Corruption in India: An Insider Account of Government Responses," Madras Sivaraman.
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SPRING 2008

May 6, 2008
"The Life and World of Philip Jaisohn (Sô Chae-p'il)"
Panel 1: "Philip Jaisohn and Chosôn Korea," with Christine Kim and Vipan Chandra.
Panel 2: "Philip Jaisohn and Korea, at home and abroad" with Kyung Moon Hwang, Kirk Larsen, and Wayne Patterson.
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April 29, 2008
"Tradition, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Choson Korea, 1850 - 1910," Kirk Larsen and Edward McCord.
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April 22, 2008
"China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation," David Shambaugh and Bruce Dickson.
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April 9, 2008
"Does China Have an Energy Diplomacy?: Reflections on China's Energy Security and its Impact on Foreign Policy," Linda Jakobson.
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April 8, 2008
The 12th Annual Gaston Sigur Memorial Lecture, "The Foreign Policy Implications of China's Political Fragility," Susan Shirk.
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March 26, 2008
"The Taiwan Presidential Election: Domestic, Regional and International Implications."
Panel 1: "Regional and International Perspectives," with Harry Harding and Robert Sutter.
Panel 2: "Domestic and Cross-Strait Implications," with Shelley Rigger and Hans Stockton.
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March 12, 2008
"Reflections on U.S.-India Relations," Ambassador Ronen Sen, Ambassador Karl F. Inderfurth, Ashley Tellis.
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February 27, 2008
"Economic Reforms and Democracy in Nepal," Prem Khanal.
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February 19, 2008
"Elite Politics and Inflation in China: Past and Present," Victor Shih.
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February 14, 2008
"HIV/AIDS & the Challenges for India," Geeta Rao Gupta.
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February 6, 2008
"Fresh Impressions & Prospects for Afghanistan," Ahmad Nader Nadery.
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January 30, 2008
"Security, Identity and the Rise of China," William Callahan.
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FALL 2007

December 4, 2007
"Integrating Wealth and Power in China," Bruce Dickson.
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Context Shapes Theory: Distinctive Trajectories of IR Scholarship in Asia
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Taiwan, Asia and the Global Economic Crisis
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