In Japan and China, resurgent nationalism has reinforced the political importance of the region’s most powerful nation-states, fed international tensions in the region, and created additional challenges for U.S. policy.
U.S. policy toward the region must grapple with these developments. Key components of Washington’s agenda in security affairs and the pursuit of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in economic affair have the potential to rearrange substantially the patterns of cooperation and conflict in the region. Many discrete issues are implicated, including the reinvigorated alliance with Japan, new security cooperation with Singapore and Vietnam, shifting assessments of Taiwan’s place in U.S.-China relations and the regional order, and the possibility of a growing U.S.-China rivalry focused in part on the multilateral arrangements that both great powers are building. Join us June 1 for a conference to discuss the challenges of the changing faces of nationalism in East Asia.
Event Sessions:
8:30-9:15 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:15-10:15 AM
Keynote Address: Transnational Challenges in East Asia and State Responses
TBA
10:15-10:30 AM
Break
10:30-12:00 PM
Panel 1: Sovereignty, Identity, and Culture in East Asia:It's Not Just Nation-States
Jacques deLisle, FPRI and University of Pennsylvania, on Hong Kong
Dru Gladney, Pacific Basic Institute and Pomona College, on Xinjiang
Christine Kim, Georgetown University, on Goguryeo
Mike Mochizuki, The George Washington University, on Okinawa
Moderator: Felix Chang, FPRI
12:00-12:45 PM
Lunch
12:45-2:15 PM
Panel 2: The Evolution of Regional Economic and Security Architectures in Asia
Richard Bush, Brookings Institution
Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University and FPRI
Satu Limaye, East-West Center
Moderator: Shihoko Goto, Woodrow Wilson Center
2:15-2:30 PM
Break
2:30-3:30 PM
Panel 3: The American Rebalance in an Unbalanced Region: The US Response to Identities, Orders, and Allegiances in East Asia
Robert Sutter, George Washington University
Sheila Smith, Council on Foreign Relations
Moderator: Robert Daly, Woodrow Wilson Center
3:30 PM Adjournment
