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. 

Asia Policy Events, Monday April 23, 2026

2025 NETWORK READINESS INDEX (NRI). 3/23, 9:00-10:30am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Portulans Institute. Speakers: Chinasa T. Okolo, PhD, Author of AI Governance in a Global Context; Rafael Escalona Reynoso, CEO and Director, Portulans Institute; Shailja Bang Shah, Head of Research, Portulans Institute; Shri Jaipal, Director of the Economic Research Unit (ERU), Department of Telecommunications, Government of India; Bitange Ndemo, Kenya's Ambassador to Belgium and the European Union; Maria Victoria C. Castro, Assistant Secretary for e-Government Department of Information and Communications Technology, The Philippines; Anna Mysyshyn, Founder, Institute of Innovative Governance, Ukraine.

CROSS-STRAIT CROSSROADS: PATHWAYS FOR AMERICA’S TAIWAN POLICY. 3/23, 10:00-11:15am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: Jennifer Kavanagh, Senior Fellow and Director of Military Analysis, Defense Priorities; Bonnie S. Glaser, Managing Director of the Indo-Pacific Program, The German Marshall Fund of the United States; David Sacks, Fellow for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Matthew Turpin, Senior Advisor, Palantir Technologies, Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution; Moderators: Ryan Hass, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center, Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies; Jude Blanchette, Distinguished Tang Chair in China Research; Director, RAND China Research Center – RAND.

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM TRUMP’S BEIJING VISIT. 3/23, 10:00am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: Kurt M. Campbell, Chairman and Co-Founder, The Asia Group, Former Deputy Secretary, United States Department of State (2024-2025); Moderator: Melanie Hart, Senior Director, Global China Hub, Atlantic Council.

TAIWAN’S SPACE AMBITIONS AND THE FUTURE OF U.S.–TAIWAN COOPERATION. 3/23, 10:30-11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Jong-Shinn Wu, Director General, Taiwan Space Agency; Chirag Parikh, Senior Adviser (Non-resident), Aerospace Security Project; Kari A. Bingen, Director, Aerospace Security Project and Senior Fellow, Defense and Security Department. 

TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS IN AN ERA OF UPHEAVAL. 3/23, 11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: Tyson Barker, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Europe Center, Atlantic Council; Frances Burwell, Distinguished Fellow, Europe Center, Atlantic Council; Daniel Fried, Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council; Moderator: Amanda Thorpe, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Europe Center, Atlantic Council. 

WAR AND UNCERTAINTY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: ASSESSING THE NEXT PHASE. 3/23, 11:00am-Noon (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Middle East Institute. Speakers: Lieutenant General Sam Mundy, USMC (Ret.), Distinguished Military Fellow, Middle East Institute; Colby Connelly, Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute; Moderator: Kenneth M. Pollack, Vice President for Policy, Middle East Institute. 

BOOK TALK: CARBON HUNTERS: REFLECTIONS AND FORECASTS OF CLIMATE MARKETS IN THE 21ST CENTURY. 3/23, Noon-1:15pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Speaker: author, Richard Sandor, CEO, Environmental Financial Institutes, Aaron Director Lecture in Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School, Moderator: Joseph E. Aldy. PURCHASE BOOK

TAIWAN'S SHIFTING GLOBAL LANDSCAPE: SECURITY, PARTNERSHIPS, AND IMPLICATIONS. 3/23, 1:00-3:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Institute for Indo-Pacific Security (IIPS). Speakers: Ian Easton, Associate Professor, U.S. Naval War College; Rupert Hammond-Chambers, President, U.S.-Taiwan Business Council; Patrick Nevins, Deputy Staff Director, House Armed Services Committee; Gregory Brown, Executive Director, Alliance Futures Initiative; Iku Tsujihiro, Research Associate, Hudson Institute; Japhet Quitzon, CSIS.

GEOPOLITICAL RISKS AND THE FUTURE OF MULTILATERAL ORDER. 3/23, 6:00pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP). Speakers: Dr. Lukas Haynes, Visiting Scholar, Ralph Bunche Institute at CUNY; Hon. Mallory Stewart, CEO, The Council on Strategic Risks; Amb. Susan Elliott, President and CEO, NCAFP. 

Asia Policy Events, Monday January 19, 2026

Monday, January 19th is a National Holiday and day of service in the United States. It is a celebration of civil rights leader Martin Luther King's birthday.

THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK’S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BANKING POLICY SIMPLIFICATION. 1/19, 2:00-3:00pm (CET), 8:00-9:00am (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Bruegel. Speakers: Sharon Donnery, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Ireland; Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow, Bruegel.

America Steps Back

A National Security Strategy of Retreat 

Leaves Asia to Manage the Consequences  

by Daniel Sneider, lecturer in East Asian studies at Stanford University, non-resident distinguished fellow at the Korea Economic Institute of America, and APP Member. First Published December 9, 2025 on the Peninsula Blog of the Korea Economic Institute.

The Donald Trump administration’s much-awaited National Security Strategy (NSS) landed last week with an audible thud.

The somewhat truncated document is an odd combination of social media-style triumphalism and an effort to lay a strategic veneer on the administration’s often chaotic and contradictory policies. But the document clearly expresses an America-First view of the world, a combination of isolationism and U.S. primacy that places allies and partners near the bottom of the priority list.

Much of the strategy’s attention is on the assault against Europe and the dismissal of both the NATO alliance and European unity in favor of supporting right-wing ethno-nationalism. In homage to the nineteenth century, U.S. control of the Western Hemisphere—in the name of a “Trump corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine—has regional priority.

But in Asia, the NSS offers a strange marriage of two historical moments, both still controversial.

One is the infamous Acheson Line, a reference to the speech delivered by then Secretary of State Dean Acheson in January 1950, drawing a U.S. defense line along the island chain from Alaska through Japan to the Philippines, notably excluding the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan. It was a declaration that many believe convinced Stalin to give the green light to Kim Il Sung to invade South Korea, igniting the Korean War.

Trump’s NSS describes a new Acheson Line, the so-called First Island Chain, presented as the first line of defense in the Pacific. Bizarrely, it contains no mention of either North Korea and its nuclear arsenal or even the Korean Peninsula.

This is combined with a revival of President Richard Nixon’s equally infamous Guam Doctrine. Amid the waning days of the Vietnam War, Nixon told reporters during a 1969 tour of Asia that while the region was important to the United States when it came to military defense, “the United States is going to encourage and has a right to expect that this problem will be handled by, and responsibility for it taken by, the Asian nations themselves.” One product of this doctrine was the withdrawal of the 7th Infantry Division from South Korea, a decision that shook confidence in the U.S. security commitment.

The message of this NSS echoes Nixon’s. It demands not only vastly increased defense spending from South Korea and Japan, as well as other partners such as Taiwan and Australia, but also that they assume the roles the United States currently plays in defending regional security, now defined as the First Island Chain. Their own defense gets no mention. As the NSS puts it: “Given President Trump’s insistence on increased burden-sharing from Japan and South Korea, we must urge these countries to increase defense spending, with a focus on the capabilities—including new capabilities—necessary to deter adversaries and protect the First Island Chain.”

The NSS makes it clear that the United States will stand aside and ask its allies to take on the task of defending the Pacific and Europe. “The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over,” the document pronounces. The United States will now ask “allies to assume primary responsibility for their regions,” while presumably still beholden to the United States’ whims and desires.

As Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated last week, Trump prefers “countries that help themselves…rather than dependencies.” Those that spend more are “model allies”—for now, South Korea is on that list, but Japan is not—but “allies that do not, allies that still fail to do their part for collective defense, will face consequences.” It was not explicitly stated, but the withdrawal of U.S. security guarantees appears to be on the table.

The Retreat from Values and Strategic Competition
The two previous national security strategies, one issued during the first Trump administration and one by the Joe Biden administration, were shaped around the concept of strategic competition with China and Russia. The new document almost completely abandons this driving idea.

Instead, “it prioritizes threats from the Western Hemisphere, European civilizational decline and overregulation, and trade deficits but says nothing about the Russian threat to U.S. interests and views China almost entirely through the lens of economic security,” argued Thomas Wright, a former national security official under the Biden administration.

Evans Revere, a former principal deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, offered this scathing summary of the NSS.

“This is not so much a national security strategy document as it is a screed telling America’s allies, partners, friends, and adversaries that the United States they once knew is gone. Gone are the priorities, principles, beliefs, and assumptions that underpinned U.S. strategy and diplomacy for most of the past 80 years during both Democratic and Republican administrations. Gone is the belief in a U.S.-centric international economic and security order based on American predominance, power, alliances, and defense commitments. And gone is the belief, once deeply shared across every previous U.S. administration, that America’s destiny was to promote a core set of values, including democracy, freedom, and equity, in cooperation with like-minded allies and partners.”

Media in South Korea and Japan echoed these concerns. “Trump administration formalizes strategy of isolationism based on US interests,” headlined a commentary in the progressive Hankyoreh. The editor of a major Japanese paper told this author that he took the NSS “as another statement of America in retreat” that “reconfirms that the entirety of US national core interest is defined as commercial benefit.”

The editor argued that the Trump administration appears to believe that “authoritarianism can be acceptable in the name of sovereignty, and effective foreign policy is conducted only by strong leadership” or “strongmen” like presidents Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin.

“America’s abandoning of its self-position as a leader of free world is obvious in this NSS,” the Japanese editor opined.

The China Question
Some have taken solace in the fact that while the NSS prioritizes the homeland and the Western Hemisphere, it does give some length to discussing China. There are elements of traditional approaches and policy continuity, particularly an embrace of military deterrence and a reaffirmation of support for the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.

But the entire section on China is focused on economic and commercial relations, with the clear suggestion that the two countries can reach a more equitable division of the global economy and presumably the spoils of commerce.

“We will rebalance America’s economic relationship with China, prioritizing reciprocity and fairness to restore American economic independence,” says the NSS. “Trade with China should be balanced and focused on non-sensitive factors.”

“The Trump admin believes in the possibility of a mutually advantageous economic relationship with China,” wrote Michael Sobolik, a senior fellow at conservative Hudson Institute, on December 5.

Trump’s NSS makes no mention of the war against Ukraine or China’s support for Russian aggression, much less China’s military and nuclear buildup. Not only does North Korea drop out of the national security policy, but the entire goal of denuclearization is also gone, perhaps reflecting a growing acceptance of North Korea as a nuclear state.

Even though Taiwan occupies a link on the First Island Chain, the focus is almost entirely on preserving its role in the electronics supply chain. “Asia is important because of its growing GDPs, and Taiwan must be defended for semiconductors and sea lanes,” wrote the veteran Japanese newspaper editor.

Two recent developments seem to manifest this view of Asia. One has been Trump’s apparent decision to effectively ignore China’s increasingly aggressive—including military confrontations in the skies—response to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about the potential impact of a crisis over Taiwan on Japan’s security. Indeed, the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal both reported that Trump, after talking to Xi, may have urged Takaichi to back off.

Perhaps more importantly, Trump has cleared the way for a dramatic easing of export controls on the sale of high-powered Nvidia semiconductors to China, effectively putting commerce over security. Ironically, perhaps the NSS also calls for allies like South Korea and Japan to prioritize trade with the United States over China.

“In Europe, we are afraid that Donald Trump’s America may be selling us out to Russia,” wrote former Economist editor Bill Emmott. “In Japan, where I have just been, the fear is of Trump selling them out to China.”

Asia Policy Events, Monday November 10, 2025

TRANS-PACIFIC SUSTAINABILITY DIALOGUE 2025: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES. 11/10-11/11, 9:00am-6:00pm (PHST), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsors: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University; Ban Ki-moon Foundation for a Better Future. Speakers: Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Director, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) and APARC’s Japan Program, Stanford University; Arsenio M. Balisacan, Secretary, Department of Economy, Planning, and Development, Republic of the Philippines; Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General, United Nations; Chairman, Ban Ki-moon Foundation for a Better Future, and more.

THE 21ST KOREA-MIDDLE EAST COOPERATION FORUM: A PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY. 11/10, 10:00am-5:30pm (AST), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsors: Middle East Council on Global Affairs (ME Council); Korea Arab Society (KAS); Jeju Peace Institute (JPI). Speakers: Dr. Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser Al-Misnad, Minister of State for International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State of Qatar; Dr. Cho Hyun, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea; Dr. Khalid Al-Jaber, Director, Middle East Council on Global Affairs; Young Hoon Kang, President, Jeju Peace Institute; Ahmed Al-Rumaihi, International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State of Qatar; Dr. Waleed Siam, Ambassador, Permanent General Mission of Palestine to South Korea and Japan; Woong-Yeob Song, Former Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan; and more.

THE STATE OF TAIWAN: WHAT'S NEXT AFTER THE TRUMP-XI MEETING? 11/10, 9:00-10:30am (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Bonny Lin, Director, China Power Project, Senior Fellow, Asian Security, CSIS; Dan Blumenthal, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Bonnie Glaser, Managing Director, Indo-Pacific Program, German Marshall Fund; I-Chung Lai, President, Prospect Foundation; Ryo Sahashi, Professor, University of Tokyo.

STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT ON CHINA: EU APPROACHES AND TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION. 11/10, 10:00am (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Global China Hub; Europe Center, Atlantic Council. Speakers: Jörn Fleck, Senior Director, Europe Center, Atlantic Council; The Hon. John Moolenaar, United States Representative (R-MI-02); Zoltán Fehér, Nonresident Fellow, Global China Hub, Atlantic Council; Michael Laha, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, and Technology, DGAP; Jacqueline Ramos, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, US Department of State, Valbona Zeneli, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Europe Center, Atlantic Council; Moderator: Melanie Hart, Senior Director, Global China Hub, Atlantic Council.

LITHUANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER KĘSTUTIS BUDRYS ON NATO, ENERGY SECURITY, AND EUROPE-CHINA RELATIONS. 11/10, 2:30-3:30pm (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Kęstutis Budrys, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania; Marshall Billingslea, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute.

Asia Policy Events, Monday September 15, 2025

BRUSSELS SPROUTS LIVE: EUROPE WITH LESS U.S.: PREVENTING RUSSIA OPPORTUNISTIC

AGGRESSION IN EUROPE. 9/15, 11:30-12:30pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Speakers: General (Ret.) Philip Breedlove, Former Commander of U.S. European Command; Former 17th Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO Allied Command Operations; Admiral (Ret.) James Foggo, Former Commander of the United States Naval Forces Europe-Africa; Former Commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples; Moderator: Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Program Director and Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Program, CNAS; Jim Townsend, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Program, CNAS. 

TAIWAN'S CHINA-FREE DRONE PRODUCTION: SUCCESSES AND CONTINUED CHALLENGES. 9/15, Noon-1:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Global Taiwan Institute. Speakers: Matthew Fulco, Journalist, Aviation Week; Lotta Danielsson, Vice President, US-Taiwan Business Council; Dr. Hong-Lun Tiunn, Deputy Director, National Security Program, Research Institute for Democracy, Society, and Emerging Technology (DSET). 

SECURING AMERICA’S TECHNOLOGICAL EDGE: A CONVERSATION WITH USPTO ACTING DIRECTOR COKE MORGAN STEWART. 9/15, Noon-1:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce, Intellectual Property, Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office; Adam Mossoff, Chair, Forum for Intellectual Property, Senior Fellow. 

RETHINKING THE PAST OF CONFLICT, IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF PEACE IN EAST ASIA.  9/15, 4:00-7:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Pennsylvania State University Institute for Korean Studies. Speakers: Aiko Utsumi, Professor Emeritus, Keisen University; Takashi Fujitani, University of Toronto; Dongeun Shin, Kangwon National University; Min-Chul Kim, Kyung Hee University; Jae-Jung Suh, International Christian University; Ran Zwigenberg, Pennsylvania State University. 6:00–6:40pm Roundtable Discussion: Dong-Choon Kim (Sungkonghoe University); Lisa Yoneyama University of Toronto,*online); Jan Thompson (ADBC Memorial Society, *online); Hong Kal, (York University, Canada); Inkyu Kang (Penn State); Dae‑yeol Yea (Sunchon National University,*online); Hyun-kuk Sung (PeaceNetwork); Shin Chang; (The Academy of Korean Studies,*online). https://events.la.psu.edu/event/rethinking-the-past/  REGISTRATION.

AFTER THE PANDEMIC: REVISING A TEXTBOOK AND RETHINKING HISTORY. 9/15, 7:00-8:00pm (EDT), 9/16, 8:00-9:30am (JST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Modern Japan History Association. Speaker: Dr. Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University. 9

Monday Asia Policy Events, August 4, 2025

BOOK TALK: M.G. SHEFTALL, AUTHOR OF THE EMBERS SERIES “HIROSHIMA: THE LAST WITNESSES” AND “NAGASAKI: THE LAST WITNESSES.” 8/4, 5:45-8:30pm (JST), 4:45-7:30am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. Speaker: M.G. Sheftall, Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural History and Communication, Shizuoka University; Research Fellow, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto. Fee. PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3TszaSw

SCHRIEVER SPACEPOWER SERIES: LT GEN DEANNA BURT. 8/4, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Mitchell Institute. Speakers: Jennifer Reeves, Senior Resident Fellow for Spacepower Studies, Spacepower Advantage Center of Excellence, Mitchell Institute; Lt. Gen DeAnna M. Burt, Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Operations, Cyber, and Nuclear, United States Space Force. 

THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN DEFENSE. 8/4, 11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Foreign Policy LIVE. Speakers: Jared Cohen, President of Global Affairs, Goldman Sachs; Ravi Agrawal, Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy. 

ASSESSING NORTH KOREA’S “20×10” REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS. 8/4, 8:00-9:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Stimson Center. Speakers: Rachel Minyoung Lee, Senior Fellow, Korea Program and 38 North, Stimson Center; Martyn Williams, Senior Fellow, Korea Program and 38 North, Stimson Center; Iliana Ragnone, Research Associate, Korea Program and 38 North, Stimson Center; Moderator: Jenny Town, Senior Fellow and Director, Korea Program and 38 North, Stimson Center. 

Monday Asia Policy Events, June 30, 2025

PARTNERS OR RIVALS? AREAS OF CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE OF INTERESTS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC. 6/30, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Foreign Policy Research Institute. Speakers: Dr. Alexander Korolev, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at the University of New South Wales, Sydney; Thomas J. Shattuck, Fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; Colonel (Retired) Robert E. Hamilton, Ph.D., Head of Research at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program. 

BOOK TALK: THE GREAT POWERS, AND IRAN’S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EVOLUTION. 6/30, Noon (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Speakers: author Shireen Hunter, Honorary Fellow, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Moderator: Roxane Farmanfarmaian, Non-resident Fellow, Quincy Institute, Director, International Studies and Global Politics, University of Cambridge Institute for Continuing Education. PURCHASE BOOK

BOLSTERING THE TRANSATLANTIC PARTNERSHIP AT A GLOBAL INFLECTION POINT. 6/30, 2:45–4:00 pm (EET), 7:45–9:00 am (EDT), ONLINE. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: Frederick Kempe, President and Chief Executive Officer, Atlantic Council; Michael Dickerson, Chargé d’Affaires, U.S. Embassy in Romania; H.E. Cătălin Predoiu, Deputy Prime Minister of Romania; Minister Cristian Diaconescu, Presidential Adviser, Department of National Security, Chancellery of the President of Romania; H.E. Alexandru Nazare, Minister of Finance of Romania; H.E. Oana-Silvia Țoiu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania; Landon Derentz, Vice President, Energy and Infrastructure, and Senior Director, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council; Jörn Fleck, Senior Director, Europe Center, Atlantic Council; Catalina Dodu, Partner and Cybersecurity Leader, EY Romania; Antonia Colibasanu, Senior Geopolitical Analyst, Geopolitical Futures; Ambassador Daniel Fried, Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council; Olga Khakova, Deputy Director, European Energy Security, Atlantic Council.

WHAT DO STRIKES ON IRAN MEAN FOR CHINA, RUSSIA, AND NORTH KOREA? 6/30, 3:00-4:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). Speakers: Victor Cha, President, Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and Korea Chair; Mona Yacoubian, Senior Adviser and Director, Middle East Program; Maria Snegovaya, Senior Fellow, Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program; Brian Hart, Deputy Director and Fellow, China Power Project. 

INSIGHTS INTO OPERATION RISING LION. 6/30, 3:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). Speakers: IDF BG Effie Defrin, Head, IDF Spokesperson's Unit; Former JINSA Visiting Fellow; Dr. Michael Makovsky, President and CEO, JINSA. 

MYANMAR’S POST-QUAKE ECONOMIC REALITIES. 6/30, 3:00-4:00am (EDT), 3:00-4:00pm (SGT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS). Speakers: Vicky Bowman, Director, Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB), Senior Adviser, Institute for Human Rights and Business; Thet Zaw Htwe, Head, Policy and Strategy, EuroCham Myanmar. 

G7 READOUT: IMPLICATIONS OF THE KANANASKIS SUMMIT FOR JAPAN'S RELATIONS WITH US AND CANADA. 6/30, 7:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsors: International House of Japan; American Friends of the International House of Japan. Speakers: Jonathan Berkshire Miller, Co-Founder and Principal, Pendulum Geopolitical Advisory; Emma Chanlett-Avery, Deputy Director and Director for Political-Security Affairs, Asia Society Policy Institute, Washington, DC Office; Kristi Govella, Associate Professor, University of Oxford; Matthew Millar, Chairman and CEO, The Millar Group; Joshua Walker, President and CEO, Japan Society; Ken Jimbo, Managing Director, International House of Japan; Moderator: David Janes, Vice President, North America, International House of Japan.

GREEN TECHNOLOGIES - DECARBONIZING DEVELOPMENT IN EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC. 6/30, 9:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: World Bank. Speakers: Martin Raiser, Vice President, South Asia, World Bank Group; Francesca de Nicola, Senior Economist, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group; Arnunchanog Sakondhavat, Director, Macroeconomic Strategy and Planning Office, NESDC, Thailand; Trang Thu Tran, Senior Economist, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group; Liew Chin Tong, Deputy Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry Malaysia; Moderator: Aaditya Mattoo, Chief Economist, East Asia and Pacific, World Bank group. 

Monday Asia Policy Events, June 9, 2025

WILL LEE JAE-MYUNG REORIENT SOUTH KOREA’S FOREIGN POLICY? 6/9, 9:00-10:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Quincy Institute. Speakers: Rep. Kim Joon-hyung, Member, National Assembly, Republic of Korea; Frank Aum, Senior Expert, Northeast Asia, U.S. Institute of Peace; Darcie Draudt-Véjares, Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; James Park, Research Associate, Quincy Institute; Moderator: Jake Werner, Director of East Asia Program, Quincy Institute. 

REPORT LAUNCH: RUSSIA’S USE OF THE INSTRUMENTS OF STATECRAFT IN THE INDO-PACIFIC. 6/9, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Foreign Policy Research Institute. Speakers: Dr. Alexander Korolev, Senior Lecturer, Politics, International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Dr. Michael Rouland, Senior Strategic Advisor, Director, Research, Russia Strategic Initiative, US European Command; Colonel (ret.) Robert E. Hamilton, Ph.D., Head, Research, Eurasia Program, FPRI. 

FUTURE OF WAR. 6/9, 11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Foreign Policy (FP Live). Speakers: Mara Karlin, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, Professor of Practice, Johns Hopkins SAIS, Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution. Moderator: Ravi Agrawal, Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy. 

ISRAEL, CHINA, AND THE INDO-PACIFIC IN THE POST-OCTOBER 7TH MIDDLE EAST WITH, DIRECTOR OF SIGNAL GROUP. 6/9, Noon (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Council for a Secure America. Speaker: Carice Witte, Founder and Executive Director, SIGNAL Group. 

WHY THE US NEEDS TO WIN THE BIOTECHNOLOGY RACE AGAINST THE CCP. 6/9, 2:00-3:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Dr. Jason Kelly, CEO, Ginkgo Bioworks; Mike Gallagher, Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute. 

SECURING EUROPE: WHAT SHOULD THE US PRIORITISE TO SUPPORT ITS CRITICAL SECTORS? 6/9, 2:00-5:30pm (CET), ), 8:00am (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsors: Science Business Network; Indra. Speakers: Robert de Groot, Vice-President, European Investment Bank; David Luengo Riesco, Head, Brussels Office, Indra; Manuel Aleixo, Cabinet Expert, Cabinet of Commissioner Zaharieva, European Commission; Martin Übelhör, Deputy Head of Unit, Innovation and Security Research, DG HOME, European Commission; Ethan Corbin, Director, Defence and Security Committee, NATO Parliamentary Assembly; Kate Robson-Brown, Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact, University College Dublin; Sergii Nazarenko, Head, Office for Identification and Countering Threats to Critical Infrastructure Objects, NPC Ukrenergo; Nikolas Ott, Director, Cybersecurity and Defence Policy, Microsoft; Francesco Topputo, Full Professor of Space Systems, Politecnico di Milano; Verena Fennemann, Head, EU Office Brussels, Fraunhofer; Stijn Vermoote, Head of User Outreach and Engagement, ECMWF; Marco Brancati, Senior Vice President of Technology, Innovation & Systems Architecture - Space Division, Leonardo.

ECONOMIC NATIONALISM AND GLOBAL (DIS)ORDER. 6/9, 6:30-8:00pm (BST), 1:30-3:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Speakers: Robert Falkner, Professor of International Relations, LSE; Katerina Dalacoura, Associate Professor in International Relations, LSE. 

Asia Policy Events, Monday March 3, 2025

TRANSATLANTIC CHALLENGES FOR THE NEXT GERMAN GOVERNMENT. 3/3, 10:00-11:30am (EST), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: American-German Institute. Speakers: Thurid Hurstedt, Dean of Graduate Programmes, Professor of Public Administration and Management, Hertie School; Eric Langenbacher, Senior Fellow, Director, Society, Culture & Politics Program, AGI; Andrea Römmele, Dean of Executive Education, Professor, Communication in Politics and Civil Society, Hertie School.

RESHAPING THE MIDDLE EAST: A CONVERSATION WITH AMJAD TAHA. 3/3, Noon-1:30 pm, HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speaker: Amjad Taha, a UAE-based political strategist and analyst.

89 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT: IS TIME RUNNING OUT ON NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL? 3/3, 4:00-5:30pm (PST),  7:00pm (EST), HYBRID. Sponsors: Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. Speakers: Jerry Brown, former Governor of California; Alexandra Bell, President and CEO, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist.; Herb Lin, Senior research scholar for cyber policy and security, Center for International Security and Cooperation; Rose Gottemoeller, William J. Perry Lecturer, Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. 

N.B.: As Trump cuts to the Federal Government's intellectual infrastructure sink in, expect to see a lot fewer events and policy papers at think tanks. Very few are aligned with Trump and all have had their funding for projects and studies ended--even mid stream. 

Monday Asia Events March 4, 2024

TWO YEARS AFTER THE RETURN OF WAR ON EUROPEAN SOIL: CHARTING THE PATH FOR EU DEFENSE WITH AMBASSADOR CHARLES FRIES, DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL FOR PEACE, SECURITY AND DEFENSE. 3/4, 10:00-11:00am (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: CSIS. Speaker: Ambassador Charles Fries, Deputy Secretary General for Peace, Security, and Defense, European External Action Service.

PAKISTAN’S 2024 ELECTIONS: YET ANOTHER RITUAL? 3/4, 10:00-11:30am (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: South Asian Studies, Yale University. Speakers: Dr. Ijaz Gilani, Author, The Ritual of Election in Pakistan; Dr. Niloufer Siddiqui, Assistant Professor, Albany-State University of New York (SUNY); Sushant Singh, Visiting Fellow & Lecturer, South Asian Studies Council, Yale University. 

THE CHANGING DYNAMICS OF TERRORISM AND ITS IMPACT ON SOCIETY: LAUNCH OF THE GLOBAL TERRORISM INDEX 2024. 3/4, 11:00am-Noon (EST), HYBRID. Sponsors: Alliance for Peacebuilding; Institute for Economics & Peace. Speakers: TBA.  

REACTOR COSTS AND DECARBONIZATION EFFORTS. 3/4, 1:00-2:00pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia. Speakers: Shannon Bragg-Sitton, Director, Integrated Energy and Storage Systems, Idaho National Laboratory; Jacopo Buongiorno, Director, Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Karl Hausker, Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute; Julie Kozeracki, Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office.

INDIA ON THE RISE: HOW HIGH WILL IT GO? 3/4, 2:00pm (EST). VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Foreign Affairs. Speakers: Alyssa Ayres, Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University and Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor, Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University; Ashley Tellis, Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and a Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

IGP WOMEN'S INITIATIVE LAUNCH SUMMIT. 3/4, 3:00-6:45pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Institute of Global Politics. Speakers: Stacey Abrams, Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics, Howard University; Former Georgia House Minority Leader; Voting Rights Activist; IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow; Gina Raimondo, 40th Secretary of Commerce; Sara Jacobs, US Representative from California; Laura Kavanagh, Fire Commissioner, New York City Fire Department; Claudia López, former Colombian Senator and Mayor of Bogotá; Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA; IGP Faculty Advisory Board member; Ai-jen Poo, President, National Domestic Workers Alliance; Executive Director of Caring Across Generations, and Trustee of the Ford Foundation; Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code and Moms First Adina Sterling, Katherine W. Phillips Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School; Shabana Basij-Rasikh, Cofounder and President of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA), IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow; Hon. Henrietta Fore, Former Executive Director of UNICEF; Former USAID Administrator; IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow; David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee; 74th UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow (joining virtually); Melanne Verveer, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security; Former Ambassador-at-Large, Office of Global Women’s Issues, US Department of State; Camille François, Lecturer of International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA; IGP Affiliated Faculty; Nina Jankowicz, Former Executive Director, Disinformation Governance Board of the United States; Vice President, Centre for Information Resilience, Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Journalist; Cofounder, CEO, and President of Rappler; IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow; Rachel Vogelstein, Deputy Director and Special Assistant to the President, White House Gender Policy Council; Special Advisor on Gender, White House National Security Council; Sara Casey, Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Director, RAISE Initiative, Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO, Planned Parenthood Action Fund; Jennifer Klein, Assistant to the President and Director, White House Gender Policy Council. 

THE PROJECT-STATE AND ITS RIVALS: A NEW HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES. 3/4, 4:00pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsors: American Historical Association; Wilson Center. Speakers: Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University; Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History.

JAPAN’S STRATEGIC COOPERATION WITH NATO: CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN UKRAINE AND TAIWAN CRISES. 3/4, 4:30-6:00pm (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: WEAI, Columbia University. Speaker: Tomonori Yoshizaki, Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) Former Vice President of National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Ministry of Defense, Japan.

Monday Asia Events December 18, 2023

THE PERILS OF CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT WITH CHINA. 12/18, 10:00-11:00am (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: John Noonan, Senior Advisor, Polaris National Security; Thomas J. Duesterberg, Senior Fellow; David Asher, Senior Fellow; Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and Director, China Center. 

POSSIBILITIES AND PERILS OF CHINA’S PRESENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. 12/18, 10:00-11:00am (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Quincy Institute. Speakers: Yu Jie, Senior Research Fellow, China in the Asia-Pacific Programme, Chatham House; William Figueroa, Assistant Professor, History and Theory of International Relations, University of Groningen; Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President, Quincy Institute. 

FINNISH FOREIGN MINISTER ELINA VALTONEN ON THE FUTURE OF US-FINLAND RELATIONS. 12/18, 3:15-5:00pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Luke Coffey, Senior Fellow; Elina Valtonen, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Finland. 

CREATING A SAFE, SECURE, AND HEALTHY GLOBAL NUCLEAR INDUSTRY. 12/18, 4:00-5:00pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: American Nuclear Society. Speakers: J'Tia Hart, Chief Science Officer, National and Homeland Security Directorate, INL; Anagha Iyengar, Deputy Program Director for Analytics and Innovation, NNSA Office of International Nuclear Security; William Tobey, former Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, NNSA. 

IN TAIWAN: TIME FOR A CHANGE? 12/18, 7:00- 8:30 pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Harvard University. Speakers: Lev Nachman, National Cheng-chih University; Sarah Newland, Smith College; Tsai Chia-hung, National Cheng-chih University. 

Monday Asia Events June 27, 2022

A CONVERSATION WITH FINLAND’S AMBASSADOR MIKKO HAUTALA. 6/27, Noon-1:00pm (EDT), ONLINE EVENT. Sponsor: Hudson. Speakers: Mikko Hautala, Ambassador of the Republic of Finland to the United States; Peter Rough, Senior Fellow, Hudson. 

AN UNFLINCHING VOICE: USCIRF’S IMPACT ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. 6/27, 1:00-2:00pm (EDT), IN PERSON. Sponsor: U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USVIF). Speakers: Nury Turkel, Vice Chair, USCIRF; Sharon Kleinbaum, Commissioner, USCIRF; Stephen Schneck, Commissioner, USCIRF; Eric Ueland, Commissioner, USCIRF; Frank Wolf, Commissioner, USCIRF. 

ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AFTER UKRAINE. 6/27, 2:30-4:30pm (EDT), ONLINE EVENT. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: Henry Farrell, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Agora Institute Professor, International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University; Chris Miller, Visiting Fellow, Jeane Kirkpatrick, AEI; Abraham Newman, Director, Mortara Center for International Studies; Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of Government, Georgetown University; Emily S. Weinstein, Research Fellow, Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University. Moderators: Joshua P. Meltzer, Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development; Neena Shenai, Nonresident Fellow, AEI. 

INQUIRY ON CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN N. KOREAN DETENTION CENTERS. 6/27, 9:30-11:00am (EST), ONLINE AND IN PERSON. Sponsor: The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Speakers Include: Navanethem Pillay, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Former President, Rwanda Tribunal, Former Judge, International Criminal Court; Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, President, Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statue, ICC, Former President, ICC; Wolfgang Schomburg, Former Judge, Rwanda and Former Yugoslavia Tribunals; Greg Kehoe, Former Co-Chair, IBA War Crimes Committee, Partner, Greenberg Traurig; David Tolbert, Former Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Former Yugoslavia Tribunal, Former Executive Director, International Center for Transitional Justice. 

GEN Z: STEWARDS OF DEMOCRACY. 6/27, 5:00pm (EDT), ONLINE EVENT. Sponsor: National Archives Foundation. Speakers: Sydney Kirages, American Battlefield Trust; Raina Melvin, First Americans Museum; Nina Keiko Nakao, Japanese American National Museum. /

Monday Asia Events, June 13, 2021

PREVIEWING A POTENTIAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESS. 6/13, 10:00-10:45am (EDT), ONLINE EVENT. Sponsor: Bipartisan Policy Center. Speakers: Michele Nellenbach, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, BPC; Yuval Levin, Senior Fellow, Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy; Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies; Editor in Chief, National Affairs. 

THE MARSHALL PLAN AT 75: LESSONS FOR UKRAINE? 6/13, 2:00-3:00pm (EDT), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Wilson Center. Speakers: Dereck J. Hogan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; formerly Ambassador, Moldova; Wolfgang Petritsch, President, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation; Robin Quinville, Director, Global Europe Program; Jonathan D. Katz, Senior Fellow, Director, Democracy Initiatives, Atlantic Council; F. Joseph Dresen, Senior Program Associate; Ambassador Mark Green, President, Director, & CEO, Wilson Center.

EUROPE’S ECONOMIC CHALLENGE. 6/13, 2:00-3:30pm (EDT). ONLINE EVENT. Sponsor: AEI. Speakers: Carlo Cottarelli, Director, Osservatorio sui Conti Pubblici Italiani, L’Università Cattolica; Desmond Lachman, Senior Fellow, AEI; Paolo Mauro, Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund; Nathan Sheets, Global Chief Economist, Citibank. Moderator: Steven B. Kamin, Senior Fellow, AEI. 

CHINA’S DIGITAL AMBITIONS: A GLOBAL STRATEGY TO SUPPLANT THE LIBERAL ORDER. 6/13, 4:00-5:00pm (EDT). ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsors: NBR; Washington State China Relations Fund. Speakers: Nigel Cory, Associate Director, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; Doug Strub, Assistant Director, Center for Innovation, Trade, and Strategy, NBR; Alison Szalwinski, Vice President of Research, NBR. Moderator: Nor Coquillard, Executive Director, Washington State China Relations Council. 

LESSONS FROM THE EDGE: A CONVERSATION WITH AMBASSADOR MARIE L. YOVANOVITCH. 6/13, 6:00-8:00pm (EDT), IN-PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: National Committee on American Foreign Policy. Speakers: author, Marie L. Yovanovitch, Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine; Susan M. Elliott, President & CEO, National Committee on American Foreign Policy. PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3PtWsE0

HEAVY METAL: A BOOK TALK ON THE LABOR BEHIND AMERICA'S SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY. 6/13, 6:00-7:00pm (EDT), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Michael Fabey, reporter, Jane’s and U.S. editor, Jane’s Fighting Ships; author, Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, Hudson Institute.  PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3xahhfv


HOW SOUTHEAST ASIANS ARE MAKING CHINA ADAPT TO LOCAL NEEDS. 6/13, 6:00-7:00pm (SGT), 6:00-7:00am (EDT), Live Online and In Person in Singapore. Sponsor: Carnegie. Speakers: Alvin Camba, assistant professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver; Evan A. Feigenbaum, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Xue Gong, assistant professor in the China program at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Keng Khoon Ng, head of postgraduate studies in the School of Architecture and Built Environment at USCI University in Malaysia; MODERATOR: Simon Tay, chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and a tenured associate professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. 

Monday Asia Events May 9, 2022

STRENGTHENING THE U.S.-JAPAN ALLIANCE: PERSPECTIVE FROM TWO AMBASSADORS. 5/9, 7:30-8:30am (EDT), ONLINE EVENT. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Rahm Emanuel, U.S. Ambassador to Japan; Tomita Koji, Ambassador of Japan to the United States; Michael J. Green, Senior Vice President for Asia, Japan Chair, and Henry A. Kissinger Chair. s

REALIZING WOMEN, PEACE & SECURITY IN UKRAINE. 5/9, 10:00-11:30am (EDT), ONLINE EVENT. Sponsor: Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, GTU. Speakers: Amb. Oksana Markarova, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States; Helga Schmid, Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE); Yevheniia Kravchuk, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine (Verkhovna Rada); Olha Aivazovska, Chairwoman of the Board, Civil Network OPORA; Kateryna Cherepakha, President, La Strada Ukraine; Natalia Karbowska, Director of Strategic Development, Ukrainian Women’s Fund; Moderator: Amb. Melanne Verveer, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.

DEFENSE TRANSFORMATION IN JAPAN? EXAMINING THE LDP’S RECOMMENDATIONS. 5/9, Noon-12:30pm (EDT). Sponsor: Hudson. Speakers: Itsunori Onodera, Former Defense Minister, Japan, Member, House of Representatives of Japan; Masahisa Sato, Former State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan; Takashi Yamashita, Former Minister of Justice, Japan; Moderator: Kenneth R. Weinstein, Walter P. Stern Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute. 

UNITED STATES, EUROPE, AND JAPAN: TRILATERAL COOPERATION IN THE INDO-PACIFIC. 5/9, 3:30-4:45pm (EDT), CSIS Headquarters / Live Webcast. Sponsors: CSIS; Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s School of Governance. Speakers: Yuichi Hosoya, Professor of International Politics, University of Keio; Eva Pejsova, Senior Japan Fellow, CSDS; Luis Simon, Director, CSDS; Pierre Morcos, Visiting Fellow, Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program; Michael J. Green, Senior Vice President for Asia, Japan Chair, and Henry A. Kissinger Chair; Max Bergmann, Director, Europe Program. 

HOLDING TOGETHER: THE HIJACKING OF RIGHTS IN AMERICA AND HOW TO RECLAIM THEM FOR EVERYONE. 5/9, 5:00-6:00pm (EDT), ZOOM. Sponsor: Freedom House. Speakers: Sushma Raman, Author and Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University; John Shattuck, Author, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. Moderator: Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, Executive Vice President for Strategy and Programs at Freedom House.  PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3kRsE6w

Asia Events Monday April 25, 2022

FRANCE HAS VOTED: WHAT’S NEXT FOR EUROPEAN SECURITY AND TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION? 4/25, 9:00-10:00am (EDT), ONLINE. Sponsor: German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Speakers: Sylvie Kauffmann, Editorial Director & Columnist, Le Monde; Pierre Morcos, Visiting Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Edgar Tam, Visiting Senior Fellow, GMF; Martin Quencez, Deputy Director, Research Fellow, Security & Defense program, GMF (Paris Office). 

WAR LEGACIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 4/25, 9:00-10:15am (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Stimson Center. Speakers: Sera Koulabdara, Legacies of War; Erin Lin, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University; Doug Weir, Research and Policy Director, Conflict and Environment Observatory; Claire Yunker, Executive Director of PeaceTrees Vietnam; Moderator: Charles Bailey, War Legacies Working Group. 

SUMMIT FOR DEMOCRACY’S YEAR OF ACTION: AN UPDATE FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. 4/25, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Society for International Development. Speakers: Rosarie Tucci, Director, Democracy, Rights and Governance Center, USAID; Patrick Quirk, Senior Director for Strategy, Research, and Center for Global Impact, International Republican Institute (IRI); Barbara Smith, Vice President, Peace Programs, Carter Center. 

ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN CONFLICT. 4/25, 10:00-11:30am (EDT), ONLINE. Sponsor: Peace and Security, Georgetown Institute For Women. Speakers: The Honorable Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, United Nations; Wai Wai Nu, Founder, Director, Women’s Peace Network, Myanmar; Oleksandra Matviychuk, Human Rights Activist, Chair, Center for Civil Liberties, Ukraine; Arsalan Suleman, Former Acting U.S. Special Envoy, Organization of Islamic Cooperation; Dr. Robert Nagel, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security; Amb. Melanne Verveer, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security. 

THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE AND THE SEEDS OF THE NEW EUROPEAN WAR. 4/25, Noon-1:00pm (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Starr Forum, MIT. Speaker: Vladislav Zubok, Professor of International History, LSE; Moderators: Carol Saivetz, Senior Advisor, Security Studies Program, MIT; Elizabeth Wood, Professor of history, MIT. 

THE VORTEX: A TRUE STORY OF HISTORY'S DEADLIEST STORM, AN UNSPEAKABLE WAR, AND LIBERATION. 4/25, Noon-1:30pm (EDT), IN-PERSON & ZOOM WEBINAR, Washington, DC. Sponsor: George Washington University (GW). Speakers: Marcus D. King, John O. Rankin Associate Professor of International Affairs, Director, Master of Arts in International Affairs Program, ESIA, GW; Deepa Ollapally, Research Professor of International Affairs, Associate Director, Sigur Center, GW. 

PROSPECTS FOR THE POST-COVID ASIAN ECONOMY WITH ADB CHIEF ECONOMIST. 4/25, 12:30-1:30pm (EDT), IN-PERSON, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Reischauer Center. Speaker: Dr. Albert Park, Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank (ADB); Moderator: Kent E. Calder, Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Center, East Asian Studies. 

INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM 2022 ANNUAL REPORT: KEY FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. 4/25, 2:00-3:00pm (EDT), IN-PERSON, Washington, DC. Sponsor: U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Speakers: Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Nadine Maenza, Chair, USCIRF; Nury Turkel, Vice Chair, USCIRF. 

GREAT WALL OF STEEL: CHINA'S GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TO SUPPRESS THE UYGHURS. 4/25, 2:00-3:30pm (EDT), WEBCAST. Sponsor: Kissinger Institute on China and the United States (KICUS). Speakers: Bradley Jardine, Schwarzman Scholar, Schwarzman Scholar, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), Research Consultant, Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs; Moderator: Robert Daly, Director, KICUS. 

CITIES FORTIFYING DEMOCRACY: A CONVERSATION WITH THE MAYOR OF WARSAW. 4/25, 2:30-3:15pm (EDT), ONLINE. Sponsor: German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Speakers: Heather A. Conley, President, GMF; Rafał Trzaskowski, Mayor, City of Warsaw, Poland; Moderator: Laura Thornton, Director, Alliance for Securing Democracy, GMF. 

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE (AMR) AS A GLOBAL SECURITY THREAT: DESTABILIZING FOOD SYSTEMS AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES. 4/25, 3:00-4:00pm (EDT), LIVESTREAM & IN-PERSON, Washington, DC. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Rasmus Prehn, Minister, Danish Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries; Rod Schoonover, Head, Ecological Security Group, Council On Strategic Risks; Junxia Song, AMR Focal Point and Senior Animal Health Officer, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization; Moderator: Caitlin Welsh, Director, Global Food Security Program. 

UKRAINIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY AND RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE FAILURE. 4/25, 5:00-6:00pm (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics. Speaker: Ethan S. Burger, IWP Cyber Intelligence Instructor, International Attorney. 

Monday Asia Events December 13, 2021

BEYOND VACCINE DIPLOMACY: THE UNITED STATES AND COVID19 RECOVERY IN THE PHILIPPINES AND SOUTHEAST ASIA. 12/13, 9:00-10:30pm (EST), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Pacific Forum International. Speakers: Sec. Carlito Galvez, Chief Implementer, National Task Force for COVID-19, Republic of the Philippines; Dr. Yanzhong Huang, Professor and Director, Center for Global Health Studies, Seton Hall University; Moderator: Angelica Mangahas, PhD Candidate, SAIS, Johns Hopkins. 

AMERICAN, CHINESE, AND INDIAN TRILATERAL PERSPECTIVES: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS-REPORT LAUNCH. 12/13, 9:00am (EST), ZOOM. Sponsor: Sigur Center, GW. Speakers: Ambassador Teresita C. Schaffer, served at US embassies in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, and from 1992-95 as US Ambassador in Sri Lanka; Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch, Founding President of the US-China Education Trust; Ambassador WEI Wei served as the Special and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Brunei Darussalam, the Republic of Singapore, and the Republic of India; Nirupama Menon Rao is a retired Indian diplomat, Foreign Secretary and Ambassador; David M. Lampton is Senior Fellow at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins–SAIS; Professor JIA Qingguo currently serves as Professor and former Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University.

JAPAN, THE U.S., AND ECONOMIC AND SECURITY POLICY LINKAGES IN THE TAIWAN STRAIT. 12/13, 9:15am (EST), ZOOM. Sponsor: Harvard Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Speakers: Tain Jy Chen, Professor of Economics, Taipei School of Economics and Political Science, Professor Emeritus, National Taiwan University; Sadamasa Oue, Senior Fellow, Asia Pacific Initiative; Lt. Gen. (retired), Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF); Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of Political Science, Davidson College; Daniel Russel, Vice President, International Security and Diplomacy, Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI); Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. 

TRAFFIC LIGHT & QUIRINALE: A MORE JOINED UP FOREIGN POLICY FOR THE EU’S BIG THREE? 12/13, 10:00-11:30am (EST), 4:00-5:30pm (CET), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). Speakers: Riccardo Alcaro, Research Coordinator and Head of the Global Actors Programme, IAI Rome; Ronja Kempin, Senior Fellow, EU/Europe Division, SWP Berlin; Pol Morillas, Director, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB); Jean-Pierre Darnis, Associate Fellow, FRS Paris; Moderator: Zachary Paikin, Researcher, CEPS. 

NUCLEAR WEAPONS STOCKPILE STEWARDSHIP AND INERTIAL CONFINEMENT: HOW THE U.S. USES BIG SCIENCE TO ENSURE OUR AGING NUCLEAR WARHEADS WORK. 12/13, Noon-1:00pm (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsors: Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies; Advanced Nuclear Weapons Alliance Deterrence Center. Speakers: Dr. Mark Anderson, Assistant Deputy Administrator, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, National Nuclear Security Administration; Dr. E. Michael Campbell, Director, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester; Dr. Mark C. Herrmann, Deputy Program Director, Fundamental Weapons Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Dr. Kimberly Scott, Program Director, Office of Experimental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Dr. Daniel Sinars, Director, Pulsed Power Sciences Center, Sandia National Laboratories. 

MODERNIZING INTELLIGENCE FOR THE GRAY ZONE. 12/13, 2:00-3:00pm (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsor: CSIS. Speaker: H.E. Michael Vickers, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; Moderator: Jake Harrington, Intelligence Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS. 

COLLAPSE: THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION. 12/13, 4:00-5:00pm (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsors: National History Center; Wilson Center (WWC). Speakers: Vladislav Zubok, Author, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science; William Taubman, Bertrand Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Amherst College; Dina Fainberg, Associate Professor of Modern History, City University of London. PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3Dttkpu

JOONGANG ILBO-CSIS FORUM 2021: THE BIDEN ERA AND KOREA'S GLOBAL STRATEGY. 12/13, 7:30-10:30pm (EST), WEBINAR. Sponsors: CSIS; JoongAng Ilbo. Speakers Include: Yun Byung-Se, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea; Song Min-Soon, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea; Hong Seok-Hyun, Chairman, JoongAng Holdings; Park Myung-Lim, Director, Korea Peace Foundation; Wi Sung-Lac, Chairman, Pragmatic Foreign Affairs Committee, Presidential Campaign for Lee Jae Myung, Democratic Party of Korea; John J. Hamre, President, CSIS; Victor