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Friday, November 20: Conference on China's Economic Development & U.S.-China Relations
Tuesday, November 24: Context Shapes Theory: Distinctive Trajectories of IR Scholarship in Asia
Wednesday, December 2: Taiwan, Asia and the Global Financial Crisis
Thursdays: Language Tea Time

 

 

2nd Annual Conference on China's Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic Relations

Presented by the Institute for International Economic Policy and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Friday, November 20, 2009
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Lindner Family Commons
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, 6th Floor

Continental breakfast from 8:00 AM

9:00 AM: Welcome and overview of the conference
Stephen C. Smith, Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, The George Washington University

9:15-10:00 AM:
Opening address and charge to the conference
Harry Harding, Dean, Batten School of Public Policy, University of Virginia and former Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs

Coffee break (10:00-10:30 AM)

10:30-12:30 PM:
Session 1: Transformations and Emerging Challenges in the Economy of China

Bruce Reynolds, Professor of Economics, University of Virginia

Loren Brandt, Professor of Economics, University of Toronto

John Giles, Associate Professor of Economics, Michigan State University and Senior Lab Economist, World Bank

Xiaobo Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute

Lixin Colin Xu, Senior Economist, World Bank

12:30-1:00 PM: Lunch

1:00-1:45 PM:
Luncheon Keynote Speaker:
Fred Bergsten, Founder and Director, Peterson Institute of International Economics

1:45-2:00 PM: Coffee Break

2:00-4:00 PM:
Session 2: Crisis, Emergence of the G2 Relationship, and Future Challenges

Zhu Caihua, Associate Professor of International Economics, China Foreign Affairs University

Philip Levy, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute and former Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisors

Margaret Pearson, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland

Bruce Dickson, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University

Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and e-mail to iiep@gwu.edu.

 

Context Shapes Theory: Distinctive Trajectories of IR Scholarship in Asia

In the Sigur Center's New Lecture Series on Power and Identity in Asia

Tuesday, November 24, 2009
12:30 - 1:45 PM
Lindner Family Commons
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, 6th Floor

Muthiah Alagappa, Distinguished Senior Fellow, East-West Center and Visiting Scholar, Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Dr. Muthiah Alagappa is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the East-West Center and a Visiting Scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies. Previously he was Director, East-West Center Washington, and Director, East-West Center Research Program in Honolulu.  His recent publications include The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia (2008), Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space  (2004), and Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features (2003), all published by Stanford University Press. He is presently working on a journal article tentatively titled "IR Theory Scholarship in Asia: Distinctive, Contextual Trajectories" and a book manuscript tentatively titled "Explaining War and Peace: The Asian Experience 1945-2005."

Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and e-mail to gsigur@gwu.edu by Monday, November 23, 2009.

 

Conference on Taiwan, Asia and the Global Economic Crisis

Wednesday , December 2, 2009
12:15 - 4:30 PM (Luncheon included)
Lindner Family Commons
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, 6th Floor

Schedule

12:15 - 1:30: Luncheon (Takes place in the City View Room, 7th Floor)

1:30 - 3:00: Panel I: The Economic Crisis and Taiwan's Political Strategies in Asia and Beyond

M. Terry Cooke, Founder, GC3 Strategy and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Kerry Dumbaugh, Specialist in Asian Affairs, Congressional Research Service

Vincent Wei-cheng Wang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond

3:00 - 4:30: Panel II: The Financial Crisis and Taiwan-China Economic Relations

Peter Chow, Professor of Economics, City College & Graduate Center, City University of New York

Scott Kastner, Associate Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland

Jiawen Yang, Professor of International Business and International Affairs, The George Washington University

Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and e-mail to gsigur@gwu.edu by Monday, November 30, 2009. You must also include which sessions (luncheon, Panel I, and/or Panel II) you plan to attend.

 

 

News

News Archive

13 November 2009
Professor Karl F. Inderfurth has published an article in the International Herald Tribune, "Listen to the Afghan People," in collaboration with Theodore L. Eliot, Jr., former Ambassador to Afghanistan, and dean emeritus of the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

13 November 2009
NPR has quoted Professor David Shambaugh in an article entitled "As U.S. Power Wanes, China Considers its New Place."

11 November 2009
The Brookings Institution's website has posted an article by Professor David Shambaugh entitled "The China Awaiting President Obama."

10 November 2009
An article by Professor David Shambaugh, entitled "Is China Ready to be a Global Power?" was published in the Global Times.

9 November 2009
Korean 24-hour news station YTN recently featured the 17th Annual Hahn Moo Sook Colloquium. The clip can be seen here.

 

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