Asia Policy Events, Monday November 17, 2025

JAPAN’S ROLE IN NAVIGATING GLOBAL AND REGIONAL UNCERTAINTY. 11/17, 2:00-6:00pm (JST), Midnight-4:00am (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). Speakers: Kenichiro Sasae, President, JIIA; Naoko Eto, Senior Fellow, Institute of Geoeconomics; Jacob Happymon, Director, Council on Strategic and Defense Studies, India; Kenneth R. Weinstein, Japan Chair, Hudson Institute; Nguyen Minh Vu, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vietnam; Naoko Shimazu, Professor, University of Tokyo, and more.

5TH INDO-PACIFIC STRATEGY FORUM. 11/17-18, IN PERSON ONLY, Ottawa, Canada. Sponsor: Institute for Peace & Diplomacy (IPD). Speakers: RSVP for speaker list.

TRUMP AND MBS: WHAT’S IN STORE FOR U.S.-SAUDI RELATIONS? 11/17, 10:00-10:45am (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Carnegie. Speakers: Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, Carnegie; Michael Ratney, Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern History of the Gulf Cooperation Countries, Princeton University.

THE GOOD NEWS ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS GLOBALLY. 11/17, Noon (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Foreign Policy Live. Speakers: Lyric Thompson, Founder and CEO, Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative; Ravi Agrawal, Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy.

SUPPORTING SURVIVORS OF CONFLICT-RELATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE. 11/17, Noon-1:15pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Institute of Global Politics, Columbia University. Speakers: Grace Achan, Board Member, Global Survivors Fund, Co-founder, Women’s Advocacy Network; Esther Dingemans, Executive Director, Global Survivors Fund; Ajna Jusić, President, Forgotten Children of War; Khrystyna Kit, Head of JurFem Ukrainian Women Lawyers Association. Moderator: Rachel Vogelstein, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Director, IGP Women’s Initiative, Director of Human Rights, Gender, and Equity Concentration, Columbia SIPA.

THE US AND CHINA: COMPETITION, COEXISTENCE, OR COLLISION? 11/17, 5:30-6:30pm (CST), 6:30-7:30pm (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Speakers: John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago; Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School; Leslie Vinjamuri, President & CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

SHIFTING SECURITY LANDSCAPE: U.S.-JAPAN DEFENSE RELATIONS. 11/17, 6:30pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Japan Society, New York. Speakers: Ken Jimbo, Professor, International Relations, Keio University, Managing Director of Programs, International House of Japan; Sheila A. Smith, John E. Merow Senior Fellow, Asia-Pacific Studies, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

FORMER PRIME MINISTERS IN JAPANESE POLITICS: POWER, INFLUENCE AND THE ROLE OF INFORMAL POLITICS. 11/17, 6:45pm (GMT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Japan Society, London. Speakers: Hugo Dobson, Professor of Japan’s International Relations, School of Languages, Arts and Societies, University of Sheffield; Karin Narita, Research Associate in Japanese Politics and International Relations, School of Languages, Arts and Societies, University of Sheffield; Caroline Rose, Emeritus Professor of Sino-Japanese Relations, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds.