APP'S BOOKS OF THE WEEK of May 4, 2026

 📚Books of the Week📖

Privileged but Powerless: How North Korean Elite Grievances Reveal the Regime’s Greatest Weakness

                By Jieun Baek, Doctorate Student of Public Policy, 

Oxford University

PURCHASE BOOK (5/5/2026)

Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with escapees from Pyongyang, Baek examines how members of this privileged class, granted access to forbidden information and superior material benefits, publicly uphold the regime despite their underlying discontent. Baek argues that this performative loyalty, born of fear and a desire to survive, masks a critical vulnerability within the regime’s core.

Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics: The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation

By Kent E. Calder, Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Center 

for East Asian Studies

PURCHASE BOOK (2/7/2025)

Examines the strategic geography of the sea lanes from Northeast Asia through the Indian Ocean to Europe, through which much of the world's energy and information flow. Changing technology and economic patterns have profoundly transformed the global significance of those passageways since the end of the Cold War, with fateful consequences for the strategic calculations of both the United States and a rising China. A timely contribution to today's geopolitics.

Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work

By Alvin E. Roth, Professor, Stanford University and Harvard University

PURCHASE BOOK (5/12/2026)

Disagreements are fierce because arguments on both sides are often made in uncompromising moral or religious terms. Roth asserts that we can make progress on these and other difficult topics if we view them as markets—tools to help decide who gets what—and understand how those markets can be fine-tuned to be more functional. Markets don’t have to allow everything or ban everything. 

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APP'S BOOKS OF THE WEEK of April 19, 2026

 📚Books of the Week📖

Cold War Comrades: An Emotional History 

of the Sino-North Korean Alliance

By Gregg A. Brazinsky, Professor of History and International Affairs, 

George Washington University

PURCHASE BOOK 1/8/2026

Brazinsky argues that neither the PRC nor the DPRK would have survived as socialist states without the ideal of Sino-North Korean friendship. Chinese and North Korean leaders encouraged mutual empathy and sentimental attachments between their citizens and then used these emotions to strengthen popular commitment to socialist state building. He explains why the unique relationship that Beijing and Pyongyang forged during the Korean War remained important throughout the Cold War and how it continues to influence the international relations of East Asia today.

Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise 

and Fall of an Imperial Region

By Hannah Shepherd, Assistant Professor of History, 

Yale University

PURCHASE BOOK 12/2/2025

Shepherd examines the shared histories of Pusan and Fukuoka over the eight decades from Japan's forced opening of Korea's ports in 1876 to the end of the Korean War in 1953. Wars, colonization, and capitalist industrialization forged intimate connections between the two, knitting together an imperial region that transcended its maritime boundaries. She challenges traditional views of empire and urban growth and shows how local networks, migration, and capital flows shaped the region's exploitative and uneven geographies.

Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: 

Russian Intelligence and Putin's Secret War

By Sean Wiswesser, Former Senior Operations Officer,

Central Intelligence Agency

PURCHASE BOOK 4/21/2026

Using historical examples and firsthand accounts, this book reveals the tactics employed by the three main services of Russia's intelligence apparatus: the SVR, GRU, and FSB. Wiswesser's unparalleled expertise comes from years of sitting across from Russian intelligence officers, operating overseas, and using their own methods against them. He breaks down ten key elements of their tradecraft, offering invaluable insights.

Japanese Rebels: Non-Conformists in a Conformist Society

By David McNeill, Former Correspondent, The Independent 

and The Economist

&

Stephen McClure, Freelance Journalist, Former Asia Bureau Chief, Billboard

PURCHASE BOOK 4/28/2026

Japan is often seen through the lens of an unusually resilient stereotype that it is a nation of risk-averse conformists. McNeill and McClure deconstruct that stereotype by showing that there have always been Japanese people who have rejected the status quo, challenged injustice, and fought for personal freedom. 

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Books selected on the APP website are not a sign of endorsement. 

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Asia Policy Events, Monday March 30, 2026

THE THREE SEAS INITIATIVE: AMBASSADOR ROMANA VLAHUTIN ON EUROPE’S NEW GEOGRAPHY OF POWER. 3/30, 8:00-9:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Zineb Riboua, Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East; Romana Vlahutin, Government of Croatia Special Envoy, Strategic Connectivity, National Coordinator, Three Seas Initiative. 

TECHNOLOGICAL TRADE PATTERNS: BRICS AND ASEAN. 3/30, 10:00-11:30am (SGT), 3/29, 10:00-11:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS). Speaker: Jennifer Pédussel Wu, Professor of Economics, Berlin School of Economics and Law.

WINNERS AND LOSERS: RUSSIA, CHINA, AND EUROPE RESPOND TO THE IRAN WAR. 3/30, 10:15-11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Carnegie. Speakers: Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program; Rosa Balfour, Director, Carnegie Europe; Evan A. Feigenbaum, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie; Alexander Gabuev, Director, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. 

BIODIVERSITY IMPLICATIONS OF LAND-INTENSIVE CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL. 3/30, 11:00am-Noon (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal. Speakers: Ruben Prütz, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); Moderator: Wil Burns, Co-Director, Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal, American University.

HOW THE HUNGARIAN ELECTION WILL CHANGE EUROPE. 3/30, 5:00-6:00pm (CET), 11:00am-Noon (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Carnegie Europe. Speakers: Rosa Balfour, Director, Carnegie Europe; Peter Hefele, Policy Director, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies; Zsuzsanna Szelényi, Research Fellow, Central European University Democracy Institute.

CHINA’S ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN: RISKS, REALITIES, AND STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS. 3/30, 11:00am-Noon (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and Director, China Center; Thomas J. Duesterberg, Senior Fellow; Leland Miller, Member, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Co-Founder and CEO, China Beige Book. 

POWERING ENERGY DOMINANCE THROUGH INNOVATION: THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF U.S.-KOREA COOPERATION. 3/30, Noon-1:00pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Global America Business Institute (GABI). Speakers: Chang-Keun Yi, President of the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), John Howes, Principal, Redland Ener    gy Group; Jae Yong Lee, Principal Researcher, KIER; Barbara Tyran, Senior Advisor, GABI. 

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SHIFTS THE GLOBAL TRADING SYSTEM: IMPLICATIONS FOR JAPAN AND “MIDDLE POWERS. 3/30, Noon-2:00pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Association of Women in International Trade (WIIT); Japanese Women in the Professions in Washington DC (J-WIP). Speaker: Barbara Weisel, Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. FEE. Lunch will be served.

IRAN WAR NEGOTIATIONS: WHAT’S ON THE TABLE? 3/30, 12:30-1:30pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Middle East Institute. Speakers: Barbara A. Leaf, Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow, Middle East Institute, Senior International Policy Advisor, Arnold & Porter; Alan Eyre, Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow, Middle East Institute, Founder and President of EyreAnalytics LLC; Moderator: Kenneth M. Pollack, Vice President for Policy, Middle East Institute. 

HOW CAN THE US ENGAGE CHINA IN ARMS CONTROL? STRUCTURAL OBSTACLES TO SINO-US NUCLEAR STABILITY. 3/30, 1:30-3:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Harvard Kennedy School. Speaker: Tianjiao Jiang, Assistant Professor, Fudan Development Institute.

REPORT LAUNCH: HOW THE WEST LOST THE POST-COLD WAR ERA. 3/30, 2:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: Daniel Fried, Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council; Brian Whitmore, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council; Moderator: John Herbst, Senior Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council.

HOW THE WEST LOST THE POST-COLD WAR ERA. 3/30, 2:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: Daniel Fried, Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council; Angela Stent, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Brian Whitmore, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council; Moderator: John Herbst, Senior Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council. 

IRAN AT THE ENDGAME: WAR OR NEGOTIATION? 3/30, 3:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). Speakers: Eric Edelman, JINSA Distinguished Scholar; Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; Elliott Abrams, JINSA Gaza Futures Task Force Member, Former United States Special Representative for Iran; Stephen Rademaker, JINSA Senior Advisor; Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security & Nonproliferation; Blaise Misztal, JINSA Vice President for Policy. 

EXHIBITING JAPAN IN MID-CENTURY NEW YORK. 3/30, 6:00-8:00pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in NY. Speaker: Dr. Angus Lockyer, Author, Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development and Japan: A History in Objects.

A NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE? 3/30, 5:30pm (CDT), 6:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Speakers: Robert Rosner, William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, University of Chicago; Doug Scott, Chair, Illinois Commerce Commission; Rachel Bronson, Lester Crown Senior Nonresident Fellow, Energy and Geopolitics, Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

DRUMMING UP CHANGE: ELECTIONS IN JAPAN, SHIFTING POLITICS, AND THE IMPACT ON OKINAWA. 3/30, 7:30pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Okinawa Collection and Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University (GWU). Speakers:  Dr. Mike Mochizuki, GWU; Dr. Fumiaki Nozoe, Okinawa International University; and Dr. Shawn Harding, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA. 

Monday Asia Events November 4, 2024

IN CONVERSATION WITH SHASHANK JOSHI, EDITOR OF THE ECONOMIST. 11/4, 12:30-1:30pm (AEDT), 11/3 8:30-9:30pm (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: Lowy Institute. Speaker: Shashan Joshi, Defence Editor, The Economist.

NAVIGATING GPS VULNERABILITIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. ECONOMIC AND NATIONAL SECURITY. 11/4, 10:00-11:30am (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson. Speakers: Nathan Simington, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission; Dana Goward, President, Resilient Navigation Foundation and Member, National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board (PNTAB), National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Todd Humphreys, Ashley H. Priddy Centennial Professor in Engineering, University of Texas at Austin; Zac Kassas, Professor and TRC Endowed Chair in Intelligent Transportation Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University; Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, Senior Director, Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, Foundation for Defense of Democracies. 

AMERICA’S COLD WARRIOR: PAUL NITZE AND NATIONAL SECURITY FROM ROOSEVELT TO REAGAN. 11/4, 4:00-5:30pm (EST). VIRTUAL. Sponsor: History and Public Policy Program, Cold War International History Project, Wilson Center. Speakers: James Graham Wilson, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State; Thomas Schwartz, Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Political Science and European Studies, Vanderbilt University; Victoria Phillips, Global Fellow, History and Public Policy Program, Wilson Center. PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/4fp8fzY

BOOK LAUNCH: PROSTITUTES, HOSTESSES, AND ACTRESSES AT THE EDGE OF JAPANESE EMPIRE: FRAGMENTING HISTORY. 11/4, 7:00-8:30pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Department of History Michigan State University. Speaker: Nobuko Yamasaki, Author, Professor, Associate Professor of Japanese, Lehigh University.  PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3YHLgKT

Monday Asia Events September 16, 2024

A NEW COLD WAR? CONGRESSIONAL RHETORIC AND REGIONAL REACTIONS TO THE U.S.-CHINA RIVALRY. 9/16, 9:00am-12:30pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers Include: Xinru Ma, Research Scholar, Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab; Gidong Kim, Post-doctoral Fellow, Korea Program, Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab. 

A CONVERSATION ON RUSSIAN WAR CRIMES WITH NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE OLEKSANDRA MATVIICHUK. 9/16, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Matthew Boyse, Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia, Director, Center for Civil Liberties, Kyiv; Oleksandra Matviichuk, Director, Center for Civil Liberties, Kyiv. 

MAPPING CHINA'S STRATEGIC SPACE. 9/16, 2:00-3:30pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). Speakers: Mr. Mark Lambert, Deputy Assistant Secretary for China and Taiwan, U.S Department of State; Dr. Jacqueline Deal, Long Term Strategy Group; Dr. Aaron Friedberg, Princeton University. Dr. April Herlevi, Center for Naval Analyses; Ms. Nadège Rolland, NBR; Ms. Alison Szalwinski, NBR.

THE UNITED STATES AND INDIA: MILESTONES REACHED AND THE PATHWAY AHEAD. 9/16, 3:30-4:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Aparna Pande, Research Fellow, India and South Asia, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources; Richard R. Verma, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources. 

WOMEN AND POLITICS IN INDIA: A CONVERSATION WITH SMRITI IRANI. 9/16, 5:00-7:00pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Observer Research Foundation America. Speaker: Smriti Irani, former Indian Minister of Minority Affairs, Minister of Women and Child Development, Minister of Textiles, Miniter of Information of Broadcasting, Minister of Human Resource Development.

Monday Asia Events July 8, 2024

NATIONAL CONSERVATISM CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON, DC. 7/8-9, HYBRID. Sponsor: Edmund Burke Foundation. Speakers Include: Rt Hon Suella Braverman, KC MP, Secretary of State, Home Department and Member of Parliament for Fareham; Elbridge Colby, Co-founder, Principal, The Marathon Initiative; Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), Senior United States Senator, Missouri; Ram Madhav, President of the India Foundation (IF); David P. Goldman, Deputy Editor, Asia Times. 

DAY ONE FOR THE NEW UK GOVERNMENT. 7/8, 1:00-2:15pm (BST), 8:00-9:15am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Chatham House. Speakers: Lord Simon McDonald, former Permanent Under Secretary, Head of Diplomatic Service, Foreign & Commonwealth Office; Creon Butler, Director, Global Economy and Finance Programme; Dr Tim Benton, Director, Environment and Society Centre; Sunder Katwala, Director, British Future; Olivia O’Sullivan, Director, UK in the World Programme. 

REVISITING THE LEGACY OF SHINZO ABE. 7/8, 9:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Stimson. Speakers: Kunihiko Miyake, Senior Advisor, Canon Institute for Global Studies; Tobias Harris, Founder, Principal, Japan Foresight LLC; Yuki Tatsumi, Co-Director, East Asia Program, Stimson Center. 

CRIMEA: WHERE RUSSIA'S WAR BEGAN AND WHERE UKRAINE WILL WIN. 7/8, 10:00-11:15am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Jamestown Foundation. Speakers: Peter Mattis, President, Jamestown Foundation; Dr. Taras Kuzio, professor, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, associate research fellow, Henry Jackson Society; Amb. Daniel Fried, Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council, director, National Endowment for Democracy, Visiting Professor, Warsaw University. 

PIVOTAL STATES: IS A DEEPER ALLIANCE WITH SAUDI ARABIA WORTH IT? 7/8, 10:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Carnegie. Speakers: Kim Ghattas, Contributing Editor, Financial Times, author, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East; Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Ambassador Dennis Ross, Counselor, William Davidson Distinguished Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy. 

MARITIME SECURITY AND NEXT-GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES: A PLATFORM FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN NATO AND ITS ASIA-PACIFIC PARTNERS. 7/8, 10:00-11:30am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson. Speakers: Benedetta Berti, Head of Policy Planning, Office of the Secretary-General, NATO; Tsuneo Watanabe, Senior Research Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation; Peter Rough, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia; Kenneth R. Weinstein, Japan Chair, Hudson. 

BOOK TALK: ACCIDENTAL DIPLOMATS AMERICAN MISSIONARIES AND THE COLD WAR. 7/8, Noon-1:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Berkeley Center, Georgetown University. Speakers: Judd Birdsall, assistant professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Georgetown University; author Philip Dow, head, Black Forest Academy, Kandern, Germany. PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3WcdQ5z 

POLICY BRIEF LAUNCH EVENT: SECURING LEBANON TO PREVENT A LARGER HEZBOLLAH-ISRAEL WAR AND WIDER ESCALATION. 7/8, Noon-1:30pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Middle East Institute (MEI). Speakers: Paul Salem, Vice President for International Engagement, MEI; Amb. Ed Gabriel, President and CEO, American Task Force on Lebanon, Former US Ambassador to Morocco; Patricia Karam, Senior Advisor, American Task Force on Lebanon; Fadi Nicholas Nassar, US-Lebanon Fellow, MEI; Amb. David Hale, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, Former US Ambassador to Lebanon.

IS IT ME OR THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM? CHANGING CHINESE ATTITUDES TOWARD INEQUALITY: A BIG DATA CHINA EVENT. 7/8, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Scott Rozelle, Co-Director, Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions; Martin Whyte, John Zwaanstra Professor, International Studies and Sociology, Emeritus, Harvard University; Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser, Trustee Chair, Chinese Business and Economics, CSIS; Ilaria Mazzocco, Senior Fellow, Trustee Chair, Chinese Business and Economics, CSIS; Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Jessica C. Teets, Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College; Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Director, China Center for Social Policy, Columbia University. 

THE MORNING AFTER: ANALYSING THE RESULTS OF THE FRENCH ELECTION. 7/8, 2:30-3:30am (EDT), 8:30-9:30am (CEST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Speakers: Célia Belin, Head, ECFR Paris; Ulrike Franke, Senior Policy Fellow, ECFR; Camille Lons, Deputy Head, ECFR Paris. 

LAUNCH OF WOMEN LEAD: WOMEN LEADING EFFECTIVE AND ACCOUNTABLE DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE. 7/8, 2:30pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Carnegie. Speakers: Jennifer Klein, Assistant to the President, Director, White House Gender Policy Council; Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta, Ambassador-at-large, Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, Department of State. 

Monday Asia Events April 8, 2024

THE UN GLOBAL PLASTICS TREATY: WHY IS IT NEEDED? 4/8, 9:00-10:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Stimson Center. Speakers: Monica Arienzo, Associate Research Professor of Hydrology, The Desert Research Institute; Philip Landrigan, Director, Global Observatory on Planetary Health, Boston College.

CHINESE PERSPECTIVES ON CYBER GOVERNANCE. 4/8, 9:00-10:30am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Georgetown University. Speakers: Xuechen Chen, assistant professor in politics and international relations at Northeastern University London, visiting research fellow at the London Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Science, King’s College London; Rachel Ann Hulvey, doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, graduate affiliate of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China; John Lee, director of East West Futures Consulting. 

PREVIEWING PRIME MINISTER KISHIDA’S VISIT TO WASHINGTON: A CONVERSATION WITH TWO AMBASSADORS. 4/8, 10:00-10:45am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Ambassador Rahm Emanuel, United States Ambassador to Japan; Ambassador Yamada Shigeo, Japanese Ambassador to the United States of America. 

ALGORITHMS OF WAR: THE USE OF AI IN ARMED CONFLICT. 4/8, 4:00-5:00pm (BST), 11:00-Noon (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: University of Oxford. Speakers: Joel H. Rosenthal, President of Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs; Janina Dill, The Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security; Ciaran Martin, Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations; Tom Simpson, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy. 

INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS OVER GLOBALIZATION. 4/8, Noon-1:15pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Weatherhead Center for International Relations, Harvard University. Speakers: Sayaka Kume, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Ministry of Finance; Sayumi Miyano, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Ryuta Ueda, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; William Grimes, Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.

INDIA VOTES 2024: COVERING THE ELECTIONS. 4/8, Noon-1:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University. Speakers: Seema Chishti, editor, The Wire; Surabhi Tandon, Emmy nominated reporter, video journalist and filmmaker from India, and a current fellow at the Nieman Foundation; Samir Patil, founder and publisher, Scroll; Mujib Mashal, New Delhi Bureau Chief, The New York Times.

LIBERALISM AGAINST ITSELF: COLD WAR INTELLECTUALS AND THE MAKING OF OUR TIMES. 4/8, 4:00-5:30pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: History and Public Policy Program, Wilson Center. Speakers: Author Samuel Moyn, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History, Yale University; Michael Kimmage, Professor of History, Catholic University of America; Jennifer Ratner- Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin Madison. PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3Pgr4dT

Monday Asia Events, March 15, 2021

PAST AND PRESENT: THAILAND’S DARK PROTEST HISTORIES. 3/15, 9:00-11:15am (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI), Columbia University. Speakers: Thongchai Winichakul, Professor Emeritus of Southeast Asian History, University of Wisconsin Madison; Duncan McCargo, Professor, Political Science, University of Copenhagen; Tyrell Haberkorn, Professor, Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin Madison; Prajak Kongkirati, Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science, and Head of Southeast Asian Studies Center, East Asian Institute, Thammasat University.

A CONVERSATION WITH AMBASSADOR TARANJIT SINGH SANDHU. 3/15, 10:00-11:00am (EST). WEBCAST. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speaker: Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Ambassador of India to the United States; Moderator: Walter Russell Mead, Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship, Hudson Institute.

NEW ERAS, OLD STORIES: FROM MAY FOURTH AND MEIJI TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY “NEW ERA” – DEFINING EAST ASIA IN THE AGE OF NOVELTY, EMOTION AND PURPOSE. 3/15, Noon-1:30pm (EDT). ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. Speaker: Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, St. Cross College, University of Oxford; Moderator: Odd Arne Westad, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs, Yale University.

THE FUTURE OF THE U.S. NAVY: A CONVERSATION WITH REPRESENTATIVE ELAINE LURIA. 3/15, Noon-1:00pm (EDT), WEBCAST. Sponsor: Hudson. Speakers: Representative Elaine Luria, U.S. Representative, Virginia's 2nd District, and Vice Chair, House Armed Services Committee; Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow & Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, Hudson.

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MASTER NEGOTIATOR: THE ROLE OF JAMES A. BAKER III AT THE END OF THE COLD WAR. 3/15, 1:00-1:45pm (EST). ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Women’s Foreign Policy Group (WFPG). Speaker: Author,
Diana Villiers Negroponte, Public Policy Scholar, Wilson Center; Moderator: Frances G. Burwell, Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council and Senior Director, McLarty Associates. 

DIGITAL TECH & OPERATIONAL CONCEPTS IN INDOPAC. 3/15, 2:00pm (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). Speaker: Major General Richard Coffman, USA, Director of the Army Futures Command's Next-Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) Cross-Functional Team. 

DETERRENCE AND DIPLOMACY WITH IRAN. 3/15, 3:00-4:00pm (EDT), WEBCAST. Sponsor: Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). Speakers: Hon. Elliott Abrams, former U.S. Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela, U.S. Department of State; Michael Makovsky, President & CEO, JINSA.

Monday in Washington, April 8, 2019

SSANSE PROJECT: SYMPOSIUM ON RUSSIA AND CHINA'S POLITICAL INTERFERENCE ACTIVITIES IN NATO SMALL STATES. 4/8, 9:00am-Noon. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speakers: Neringa Bladaitė, University of Vilnius; Anne-Marie Brady, Wilson Center, University of Canterbury; Donald J. Jensen, Center for European Policy Analysis; Ryan Knight, GTU; Martin Hála, Charles University; Margarita Šešelgytė, University of Vilnius; Khamza Sharifzoda, GTU; Mark Stokes, 2049 Project; Alan Tidwell, GTU; Baldur Thorhallson, University of Iceland; Moderator: Abe Denmark, Asia Program, Wilson Center.

THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF CATASTROPHIC DISASTERS VERSUS SLOW VIOLENCE: THINKING ABOUT THE IMPACTS OF THE XE PIAN XE NAMNOY HYDROPOWER DAM IN SOUTHERN LAOS. 4/8, Noon-1:30pm, Lunch. Sponsor: Stimson Center. Speakers: Ian G. Baird, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Brian Eyler, Director, South East Asia Program, Stimson Center.

THE WEAPONIZATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA. 4/8, 12:15-1:15pm. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics. Speaker: Ethan Burger, Washington-based International Legal Consultant and Educator, and Adjunct Professor, Institute of World Politics.

AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN PUBLIC OPINION. 4/8, 2:00-3:30pm. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Dina Smeltz, Senior Fellow, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Lily Wojtowicz, Research Associate, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Denis Volkov, Head of Applied Research, Levada Center; Stepan Goncharov, Senior Research Fellow, Levada Center; Jeffrey Mankoff, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS.

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CHINA'S INFLUENCE ACTIVITIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE US-TAIWAN RELATIONSHIP. 4/8, 4:00-5:15pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: Bi-khim Hsiao, Legislator, Legislative Yuan, Republic of China (Taiwan); Michael Mazza, Visiting Fellow, Foreign & Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute; Barry Pavel, Senior Vice President, Arnold Kanter Chair, and Director, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council.

COLD WAR DEMOCRACY: THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN. 4/8, 4:00-5:30pm. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speakers: author Jennifer Miller, Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth College; Moderator: Christian F. Ostermann, Director, History and Public Policy Program; Cold War International History Project; North Korea Documentation Project; Nucleaclr Proliferation International History Project, Wilson Center.

Monday in Washington, March 11, 2019

ROUNDTABLE ON INDIAN INVESTMENT. 3/11, 10:00am-Noon, Washington, DC. Sponsors: Wilson Center; NASSCOM. Speakers: Carlos Gutierrez, chair, Albright Stonebridge Group, and former U.S. secretary of commerce; Karen Campbell, associate director—Economics & Country Risk, IHS Markit; Peter Bendor-Samuel, CEO, Everest Group; Jonathan Samford, senior vice president, Organization for International Investment (OFII); Raju Chinthala, senior advisor for India, Indiana Economic Development Corporation; Daniel Griswold, senior research fellow and co-director, Trade and Immigration Project, Mercatus Center, George Mason University. Invitation only. Livestream.

CHINA'S HYPERSONIC MISSILE ADVANCES AND U.S. DEFENSE RESPONSES. 3/11, 10:45-Noon. Sponsor: Hudson. Speakers: Dr. Thomas Karako, Senior Fellow and Director, Missile Defense Project, International Security Program, CSIS; Dr. Austin Long, Nuclear Policy Advisor, Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Policy Division, Joint Staff J5, Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff; Roger Zakheim, Washington Director, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute; Rebeccah Heinrichs, Senior Fellow, Hudson. 

CANADIAN NUCLEAR LABORATORIES SMR DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. 3/11, Noon-1:00pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Global America Business Institute (GABI). Speakers: Dr. Kathryn McCarthy, Vice President for Research & Development, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories; Dr. Corey McDaniel, Vice President for Business Development, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories.

LAUNCH OF INTERNATIONAL DISASTER RESPONSE: REBUILDING THE QUAD? 3/11, Noon-1:30pm. Sponsor: Stimson Center. Speakers: Yuki Tatsumi, Co-Director, East Asia Program, Stimson Center; Yasuhito Jibiki, Assistant Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University; Pamela Kennedy, Research Associate, East Asia Program, Stimson Center; Kate Stevenson, Fellow, Australia-Japan Research Centre; Akriti Vasudeva, Research Associate, South Asia Program, Stimson Center.

HOW PAKISTAN NAVIGATES THE SAUDI ARABIA-IRAN RIVALRY. 3/11, 1:00-2:30pm. Sponsor: United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Speakers: Ankit Panda, Senior Editor, The Diplomat; Karen Young, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Alex Vatanka, Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute; Moderator: Amb. Richard Olson, Former United States Ambassador to Pakistan and United Arab Emirates. 

HOW RUSSIA IS SURVIVING WESTERN SANCTIONS. 3/11, 2:00-3:00pm. Sponsors: Wilson Center; Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security. Speaker: Martin Gilman, Martin Gilman, Professor of Economics, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Former Senior Resident Representative, Moscow Office, International Monetary Fund (1996-2002).

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THE ARC OF CONTAINMENT: BRITAIN, THE UNITED STATES, AND ANTICOMMUNISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. 3/11, 4:00-5:30pm. Sponsors: Wilson Center. Speaker: author Wen-Qing Ngoei, assistant professor of history at Nanyang Technological University; Moderators: 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, Fellow, Professor of History, The George Washington University. PURCHASE BOOK

CHINA: KIDNAPPED BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY. 3/11, 4:00-5:00pm. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics (IWP). Speaker: Mr. Chen Guangcheng, Chinese Lawyer, Visiting Fellow at the Catholic University of America, Distinguished Senior Fellow in Human Rights at the Witherspoon Institute, and Senior Distinguished Advisor to the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice.

REPORT: THE KREMLIN PLAYBOOK 2: THE ENABLERS. 3/11, 5:00-6:30pm, Washington, DC. Sponsors: Europe Program, CSIS; Center for the Study of Democracy. Speakers: Heather Conley, Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic; and Director, Europe Program, CSIS; Juan Zarate, Senior Adviser, Transnational Threats Project and Human Rights Initiative, CSIS; Moderator: Bob Schieffer, CSIS Trustee. 

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TAIWAN’S VIBRANT DEMOCRACY AND ITS IMPACT ON ASIA AND US. 10/15, 12:15-2:00pm. Sponsor: Stimson. Speakers: Derek Mitchell, President, National Democratic Institute; Harry Harding, Ph.D., University Professor and Professor of Public Policy, University of Virginia; Distinguished Adjunct Professor, International Doctoral Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan; Shirley Lin, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Political Economy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Virginia; Moderator: Yun Sun, Co-Director, East Asia Program; Director of the China Program, Stimson Center.

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THE VIRTUE OF NATIONALISM. 10/15, 2:00-3:00pm. Sponsor: Heritage. Speakers: Yoram Hazony, Author, President, Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, Director, Jewish Philosophical Theology project, John Templeton Foundation; Dr. Theodore R. Bromund, Senior Research Fellow in Anglo-American Relations. 

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FOUNDATION OF THE CIA: HARRY TRUMAN, THE MISSOURI GANG, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR. 10/15, 4:30-6:00pm. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics (IWP). Speaker: Author Richard E. Schroeder, Former Intelligence Officer, US Army, Former Deputy Director, CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence.

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES (PART 3). 10/15, 6:00-7:30pm. Sponsors: Environmental Law Institute; ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice; Program on Environmental and Energy Law, AU Washington College of Law. Speakers: Charles Lee, Senior Policy Advisor for Environmental Justice, USEPA; Vernice Miller-Travis, Senior Consultant, Skeo Solutions, and Founder, WE ACT for Environmental Justice; Dr. Ezra Rosser, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, AU; Dr. William J. Snape III, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University; Moderator: Kendra Brown, Senior Director for Diversity, Inclusion and Affinity, Washington College of Law, AU.