Asia Events, Monday March 7, 2022

KOREA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: FORECAST AND IMPACT ANALYSIS. 3/7, 8:00am (EST), LIVESTREAM. Sponsor: Korea Society. Speakers: Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Chief, Seoul/Tokyo bureau, Washington Post; Karl Friedhoff, Marshall M. Bouton Fellow for Asian Studies, Chicago Council; Jeongmin Kim, Lead Correspondent, NK News, NK Pro; Dr. Katrin Katz, Van Fleet Nonresident Senior Fellow, Korea Society; Moderator: Jonathan Corrado, Policy Director, Korea Society. 

U.S.-JAPAN ALLIANCE COOPERATION IN THE POST-PANDEMIC WORLD. 3/7, 8:00-9:00am (EST), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Stimson Center. Speakers: Riho Aizawa, Research Fellow, National Institute for Defense Studies; Ryosuke Hanada, Research Student, Macquarie University; Naritada Miura, Program Assistant, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA; Ippeita Nishida, Senior Research Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan. 

THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE: ONE WEEK LATER. 3/7, 9:00am (EST), WEBCAST. Sponsor: Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI). Speakers: Kevin Rudd, President, ASPI; Hon. Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Sweden; Hon. Radoslaw Sikorski, European Parliament Member, Poland; Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Senior Fellow, Center for New American Security. 

PROMOTING DEMOCRACY IN A TURBULENT WORLD. 3/7, Noon (EST), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsors: Public Diplomacy Council, USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy, Public Diplomacy Association of America. Speaker: Tom Carothers, Senior Vice President, Carnegie for International Peace. 

AI, INNOVATION, AND WELFARE: A CONVERSATION WITH JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ. 3/7, 2:00-3:00pm (EST), WEBCAST. Sponsor: Brookings. Speaker: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor, Columbia University; Moderator: Anton Korinek, David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Brookings. 

GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM: FOREIGN POLICY IN AN ERA OF DOMESTIC DIVISION. 3/7, 2:00-5:00pm (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Seth G. Jones, Senior Vice President, Harold Brown Chair, CSIS; Michael J. Green, Senior Vice President for Asia, Japan Chair, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, CSIS; William J. Lynn III, CEO, Leonardo/DRS; Nancy Youssef, National Security Correspondent, Wall Street Journal; John J. Hamre, President and CEO, CSIS; William Cohen, former Secretary of Defense; Leon Panetta, former Secretary of Defense. 

THIRTY YEARS OF US-KAZAKHSTAN RELATIONS: THE WINTER CRISIS AND PATH FORWARD. 3/7, 3:30-4:30pm (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: Daniel Witt, President, International Tax and Investment Center; Ambassador John Herbst, Senior Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council; H.E. Yerzhan Ashikbayev, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States; Dr. Kamran Bokhari, Director of Analytical Development, Newlines Institute; Dr. Ariel Cohen, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council; Shelby Magid, Associate Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council. 

HISTORY, DISRUPTED": HOW SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB HAVE CHANGED THE PAST. 3/7, 4:00-5:30pm (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsor: History and Public Policy Program, Wilson Center; Science and Technology Innovation Program, Wilson Center. Speakers: author, Jason Steinhauer, Global Fellow, Founder, History Communication Institute, "History, Disrupted": How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past; Christian F. Ostermann, Director, History and Public Policy Program, Cold War International History Project, North Korea Documentation Project, Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center; Eric Arnesen, Former Fellow, Professor of History, The George Washington University.  PURCHASE BOOK 

WHY YOKOSUKA HOSTS AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER & WHY IT WILL HOST A SECOND. 3/7, 7:00-8:15pm (JST), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS). Speaker: Tetsuo Kotani, Professor of Global Studies, Meikai University.