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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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Upcoming Events
China's Economic Development & U.S.-China Relations
Friday, Nov. 20 | 9:00 a.m.
Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor
Context Shapes Theory: Distinctive Trajectories of IR Scholarship in Asia
Tuesday, Nov. 24 | 12:30 p.m.
Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor
Taiwan, Asia and the Global Economic Crisis
Wednesday, Dec. 2 | 12:00 p.m.
Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor
Language Tea Time
Thursdays | 4:00 p.m.
The Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, Suite 503
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