Asia Program Conference

Regional Security in East Asia:
Sustaining Stability, Coping with Conflict, Building Cooperation?

Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Reserve Officers Association

Monday, November 1, 2010

Reserve Officers Association
One Constitution Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20045

Except for the problem of North Korea, East Asia has been a region of comparative stability. U.S.-PRC relations have continued a long period of stability despite the frictions that have accompanied China’s rise. Cross-Strait relations have warmed rapidly. U.S.-Japan security ties have remained strong, underpinned by common regional interests and concerns.

Despite this overall stability, regional security faces challenges from old conflicts and newly emerging tensions, ranging from legacies of history that cast a shadow over Japan’s relations with its neighbors and its international security roles, the now-perennial crisis of North Korea’s weapons programs and the long-rising worries over an increasingly powerful and assertive China to the sinking of the South Korean naval ship Cheonan, the controversy over the U.S. base at Futenma, Japan, and the dispute over Japan’s detention of a Chinese ship.

Relatively recent changes in leadership or ruling parties and the prospect of more such changes in the relatively near future in almost all of the major states in the region create further uncertainty. Regional states and extraregional states with security interests in the region have turned to multilateral cooperation and engagement to sustain stability and cope with potential conflict. What are the prospects for maintaining stability and containing or avoiding conflict now and in the near future? What roles can and should regional cooperation play?

Conference Report

• Regional Security In East Asia: An FPRI Conference Report, by Jacques deLisle, 1/2011
• Regional Security In East Asia: An FPRI Conference Report, (8 pages, 153K )

Topics and Speakers

Panel 1: China’s Rise, Chinese Strategy and Regional Security

• Paper: Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University, Wilson Center, and FPRI;
  Chinese Strategic Thinking On Multilateral Regional Security In Northeast Asia (16 pages, 123K )
• Commentators: Jacques deLisle, Director, FPRI Asia Program, and Professor of Law, UPenn; Bonnie Glaser, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Moderator: Mackubin T. Owens, Editor, Orbis, and Senior Fellow, FPRI
• Audio and Video of: Panel 1: China’s Rise, Chinese Strategy and Regional Security

Panel 2: Japan’s Regional Security Role: Continuity and Change?

• Paper: T.J. Pempel, University of California at Berkeley
  Japan's Search For The `Sweet Spot': International Cooperation And Regional Security In Northeast Asia (19 pages, 211K )
• Commentators: Richard Samuels, MIT; Paul Goldstein, FPRI
• Moderator: Mackubin T. Owens, Editor, Orbis, and Senior Fellow, FPRI
• Audio and Video of: Panel 2: Japan’s Regional Security Role: Continuity and Change?

U.S. Security Interests: Aims and Challenges in an Evolving Asia

• Speaker: Aaron Friedberg, Princeton University
• Audio and Video of: Aaron Friedberg on U.S. Security Interests: Aims and Challenges in an Evolving Asia

Panel 3: Taiwan and the Koreas: Different Trajectories for Perennial Sources of Regional Security Challenges?

• Paper: Richard Bush, Brookings Institution
  Taiwan And East Asian Security (16 pages, 113K )
• Paper: Victor Cha, Georgetown University
  The End Of History: `Neojuche Revivalism' And Korean Unification (8 pages, 72K )
• Commentators: Vincent Wang, University of Richmond; Kyung Hoon Leem, Seoul National University, and Visiting Scholar, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, FPRI
• Moderator: Jacques deLisle, Director, FPRI Asia Program, and Professor of Law, UPenn
• Audio and Video of: Panel 3: Taiwan and the Koreas: Different Trajectories for Perennial Sources of Regional Security Challenges?

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