Monday, January 25, 2010
What types of power matter, and who has how much of it, in East Asia today and in the future? Has U.S. hard and soft power declined at least relatively and what are the consequences of the U.S.’s continued focus on other issues and the agenda of the Obama administration? What are the implications of China’s rising power and influence and its “charm offensive”? What do such developments portend for China’s cooperation and conflict with the U.S., Japan, and others? Where do Japan’s long-term economic troubles, long-debated constraints on its security role, a new government and a changing environment leave this major regional power? What are the consequences for smaller power, including Taiwan and Korea, of changes in their external environments? What do domestic developments in these lesser power in their foreign relations mean for greater powers and relations among them?
Introduction by Jacques deLisle, Director, FPRI Asia Program
David Kang, Professor of International Relations and Business, University of Southern California
Status and Leadership on the Korean Peninsula
Alan Wachman, Associate Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Suffering What They Must? Mongolia, Taiwan and the Limits of Independence
Moderator: Mackubin T. Owens, Editor, Orbis