Events
Past Events at the East-West Center in Washington, along with event summaries, links to related publications (including Asia Pacific Bulletin) and photos.
July 18, 2008
Australian Perspectives on China and Northeast Asian Security
Richard Rigby, David M. Finkelstein, Geremie Barmé, Katherine Morton and Jane Golley
July 9, 2008
ADB Report: Emerging Asian Regionalism
Dr. Jong-Wha Lee, Dr. Giovanni Capannelli, and Dr. Peter Petri
June 20, 2008
EWC in Washington Meeting with the Better Hong Kong Foundation
Daniel R. Fung, James E. Thompson and the BHKF U.S. delegation
June 19, 2008
U.S.- India Relations: What's Next?
Dr. Evan Feigenbaum, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State South and Central Asian Affairs.
June 17, 2008
EWC in Washington Senior Journalists Seminar and Reception
The East-West Center's Senior Journalism Fellows from South and Southeast Asia.
June 12, 2008
After the Storm: Rethinking International Engagement in Post-Cyclone Burma
Amb. Priscilla Clapp, independent scholar Dr. Kyi May Kaung, and David Steinberg, Professor at Georgetown University.
June 9, 2008
Takeaways from Shangri-La: Developing Effective U.S. Defense and Security Policies in the Asia-Pacific
RADM. Mike McDevitt, Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at the Center for Naval Analyses.
June 6, 2008
EWC in Washington Pacific Islands Reception
The East-West Center’s U.S. South Pacific and Timor-Leste scholars.
May 30, 2008
Managing Sino-U.S.-Japan Relations: Recalibrating the Triangle
Ming Wan, of the George Mason University, Yoshihisa Komori, of The Sankei Shimbun and Robert Sutter, of Georgetown University.
May 19, 2008
Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice
Andrew Oros, Associate Professor of Political science and International Studies at Washington College
April 29, 2008
U.S. Policy Towards Asia: An Asian Leader’s Advice for the Next American President
Kishore Mahbubani, Dean and Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Pubic School, National University of Singapore, and former Singaporean Ambassador to the United Nations
Co-sponsored with the Asia Society
April 24, 2008
Asia's Energy Future
Fereidun Fesharaki, Senior Fellow at the East-West Center
Kang Wu, Senior Fellow at the East-West Center
Co-sponsored with the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
April 23, 2008
The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
Alex Harney, author
Kimberly Elliott, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
12:30 P.M., EWC in Washington Conference Room
March 19, 2008, Democracy and Human Rights Seminar
Collective Labor Rights and Labor Market Flexibility in East Asia
Dr. Teri L. Caraway, University of Minnesota
2:30 P.M., EWC in Washington Conference Room
February 25, 2008, Special Asian Security Forum
Asia's New Regionalism
Ellen Frost, Peterson Institute of International Economics & National Defense University
John Miller, Foreign Service Institute
Jeffrey Schott, Peterson Institute
12:30 P.M., EWC in Washington Conference Room
February 21, 2008, Asian Security Forum
Seoul Shift: What to Expect From South Korea’s New President
J.J. Suh, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Peter M. Beck, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
2:30 P.M., EWC in Washington Conference Room
Previous Events: 2007
December 17, 2007, Special Presentation
Negotiating the Malaysia-United States Free Trade Agreement: A Mid-Course Analysis
Dr. Pek Koon Heng, American University
2:30 - 4:00 PM, East-West Center in Washington Conference Room
December 13, 2007, Visiting Fellows Seminar
Democratic Institutions and Political Corruption in Emerging Democracies: The Case of Thailand
Dr. Napisa Waitoolkiat, East-West Center in Washington Visiting Fellow
and
The State and the Reactor: Nuclear Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Dr. Sulfikar Amir, East-West Center in Washington Visiting Fellow
November 15, 2007, Congressional Study Group on Asian Security
Prospects for Taiwan-PRC Peace Under New Leaders
Ambassador Raymond Burghardt, East-West Center, and current Chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT)
Dr. Richard C. Bush, Brookings Institution, and former Chairman of AIT
October 26, 2007, Meeting
United States Relations with ASEAN at Thirty
Co-sponsored by the East-West Center (EWC) and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.
APB summary of event or entire meeting notes (9 pages)
September 7, 2007, Joint Congressional Study Group on Asian Security and the Pacific Islands
A Fresh Start for Timor-Leste
Hans G. Klemm, U.S. Ambassador to Timor-Leste
Flynn Fuller of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
"The Strategic Consequences of India's Economic Performance"
Sanjaya Baru
Media Advisor to the Prime Minister of India
June 14, 2007, Democracy and Human Rights Seminar
"The Current Impasse in Timor-Leste"
Douglas Kammen
May 10, 2007, Democracy and Human Rights Seminar
"Ethnic Diversity and Democracy"
Kanchan Chandra
Associate Professor of Politics
New York University
April 23, 2007, Democracy and Human Rights Seminar
"Rightful Resistance in Rural China"
Kevin O'Brien
Professor of Political Science and Chair, Center for Chinese Studies
University of California, Berkeley
March 29, 2007, Democracy and Human Rights Seminar
"Resolving Separatist Conflicts in Southeast Asia: Aceh and Southern Thailand"
Edward Aspinall
Fellow, Indonesian Politics, Department of Political and Social Change
The Australian National University
Duncan McCargo
Professor of Southeast Asian Politics
University of Leeds, UK
February 15, 2007, Democracy and Human Rights Seminar
"Malaysia's Semi-Democracy in Practice: Through the Lens of Elections"
Bridget Welsh
Assistant Professor of Southeast Asia Studies
Johns Hopkins University-SAIS
