Asia Program Conference: Power in East Asia: What Is It and Who Has It?

Korea, Taiwan, and the Challenges for Smaller States

January 25, 2010 / Washington, D.C.

What types of power matter, and who has how much of it, in East Asia today and in the future? Questions like these were examined on January 25, 2010 at Power in East Asia: What Is It and Who Has It?, a conference co-sponsored with and hosted by the Reserve Officers Association in Washington, D.C. and webcast online.

In the third panel, Katy Oh Hassig of the Institute for Defense Analyses and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Professor of History at Georgetown University commented on “Status and Leadership on the Korean Peninsula” by David Kang, Professor of International Relations and Business at the University of Southern California, and “Suffering What They Must? Mongolia, Taiwan and the Limits of Independence,” by Alan Wachman, Associate Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. the panel was moderated by Mackubin T. Owens, Editor of Orbis.

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