Power, Identity, and Security in Asia:Views on Regional Cooperation and the U.S. Role

Monday, April 16, 20129:00 AM - 5:30 PM

The George Washington UniversityLindner Commons1957 E Street, N.W., 6th FloorWashington, D.C. 20052

This Conference is part of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies’ multi-year, multi-project research effort, the Rising Powers

Initiative. The Sigur Center gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur

Foundation for this Conference.

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:20 AM - 9:30 AM Welcome and Introductory RemarksSpeaker: Deepa Ollapally (GWU)

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Session I: Power and Identity in IndiaChair: Alyssa Ayres (Department of State)

Presenters: Deepa Ollapally (GWU) and Amitabh Mattoo (Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Melbourne)

Discussant: Jonah Blank (RAND Corporation)

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Session II: Power and Identity in JapanChair: Edward Lincoln (GWU)

Presenters: Mike Mochizuki (GWU) and Isao Miyaoka (Keio University)

Discussant: Sheila Smith (Council on Foreign Relations)

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Session III: Power and Identity in KoreaChair: Thomas Hubbard (McLarty Associates; Former United States Ambassador to Korea)

Presenters: Gregg Brazinsky (GWU) and Jong-dae Shin (University of North Korean Studies)

Discussant: Ji-Young Lee (American University)

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch and Keynote AddressChas W. Freeman, Jr., Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Session IV: Power and Identity in ASEANChair: Satu Limaye (East-West Center)

Presenters: Amitav Acharya (American University) and Allan Layug (Sophia University)

Discussant: Alice Ba (University of Delaware)

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Session V: Power and Identity in ChinaChair: Evan Medeiros (National Security Council)

Presenter: Allen Carlson (Cornell University)

Discussant: Taylor Fravel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Coffee/Tea Break

4:15 PM - 5:00 PM Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy: Liberal Internationalist and Realist ViewsKeynote Speakers: G. John Ikenberry (Princeton University) and Charles Glaser (GWU)

5:00 PM - 5:05 PM Closing RemarksSpeaker: Mike Mochizuki (GWU)

5:05 PM - 5:30 PM Conference Reception

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Chair of the ASEAN Studies Center at American University. Previously, he was Professor of Global Governance at the University of Bristol; Professor at York University, Toronto; Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore; Fellow of the Harvard University Asia Center; and Fellow of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

His recent books include Whose Ideas Matter? (Cornell, 2009); Beyond Iraq: The Future of World Order (co-edited, World Scientific, 2011); Non-Western International Relations Theory (co-edited, Routledge, 2010); and The Making of Southeast Asia (Cornell, 2011). He has contributed op-eds to Foreign Affairs, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Japan Times, Jakarta Post, Indian Express, and Times of India and scholarly articles to International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies, and World Politics. He has been interviewed by CNN International, BBC World Service, CNBC, Channel News Asia, Radio Australia, and Al Jazeera TV on current affairs.

Alyssa Ayres is Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia since August 2010. Her portfolio includes India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Maldives. She joined the Department of State from McLarty Associates, the Washington-based international strategic advisory firm, where she led the India and South Asia practice.

Previously, Dr. Ayres served as an International Affairs Fellow on the staff of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs, focusing on South and Central Asia. Prior to that, Dr. Ayres worked in the nonprofit sector, also focusing on South Asia at the Center for the Ad-vanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania; at the Asia Society in New York; and as an interpreter on mission with the International Committee of the Red Cross. She received an AB magna cum laude from Harvard College, and a MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. Her book on nationalism, culture, and politics in Pakistan, Speaking Like a State, was published world-wide by Cambridge University Press in 2009. She has also co-edited three books on India and Indian foreign policy, including the recently published Power Realignments in Asia. A fluent speaker of Hindi and Urdu, Dr. Ayres has lived in both India and Pakistan. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Alice D. Ba is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. She joined the Department in 2000 and specializes in the international relations, politics, and regionalisms of Southeast and East Asia. Professor Ba’s current and recent research focuses on Southeast Asia and its relations with China and the United States in East Asia, East and Southeast Asian regionalisms, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the comparative conditions and processes of engagement. She teaches courses on Southeast Asian politics and world relations, Chinese politics and foreign policy, as well as international relations and international relations theory. Professor Ba currently serves as Director of the Asian Studies Program.

Professor Ba’s recent publications include: (Re)Negotiating East and Southeast Asia: Regions, Regionalisms, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Stanford, 2009); “Systemic Neglect: A Reconsideration of U.S. Southeast Asia Policy,” Contemporary South-east Asia (December 2009); “Multiple Negotiations: ASEAN in East Asia,” Cambridge Review of International Studies (November 2009); “A New History? The Structure and Process of Southeast Asia’s Relations with a Rising China,” in Contemporary Southeast Asia, 2nd Edition (Palgrave, 2008). Dr. Ba received her PhD from the University of Virginia.

Jonah Blank is Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Previously, he was Policy Director for South Asia and Southeast Asia on the Majority staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. An anthropologist, Dr. Blank is author of Mullahs on the Main-frame: Islam and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras, and Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana Through India.

Before entering government service, he served as senior editor and foreign correspondent for US News & World Report, and has taught anthropology and politics at the George Washington University, Harvard University, Georgetown University, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Gregg Brazinsky is a specialist on US-East Asian relations during the Cold War at the George Washington University. His work focuses on the social and cultural impact of the United States on East Asia. Professor Brazinsky’s first book, Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans and the Making of a Democracy (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) examines why South Korea was among the few post-colonial nations to achieve economic development and political democracy. It is the first book on the subject to use both American and Korean source materials. He received a Kluge Fellowship from the Library of Congress and grants from the Association for Asian Studies and the Sigur Center to do work on this project. His articles have appeared in Diplomatic History and in several edited volumes.

Professor Brazinsky is now pursuing research on several other projects. One is a study of the cultural impact of the Korean War in America, Korea and China. Another is a comparative study of American nation building programs in East and Southeast Asia dur-ing the Cold War. He serves as Co-Director of the George Washington University Cold War Group.

Allen Carlson is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University, where he also serves as the director of the undergradu-ate studies program and is a core faculty member of Cornell’s China-Asia Pacific Studies (CAPS) major. Carlson received his under-graduate degree from Colby College and his PhD in Political Science from Yale University.

Professor Carlson is co-editor (with J.J. Suh and Peter Katzenstein) of Rethinking Security in East Asia (Stanford University Press, 2004). He is also the author of Unifying China, Integrating with the World: The Chinese Approach to Sovereignty During the Reform Era (Stanford University Press, 2005). Carlson has also published articles in the Journal of Contemporary China and Pacific Affairs and written monographs for the National Committee on US-China Relations and the East-West Center Washington. He regularly teaches classes on China’s foreign relations, Asian security, Chinese nationalism, globalization, and international relations theory.

M. Taylor Fravel is Associate Professor of Political Science and member of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Fravel is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University, where he received his PhD. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, a Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, a Fellow with the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In March 2010, he was named Research Associate with the National Asia Research Program launched by the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center.

Dr. Fravel studies international relations, with a focus on international security, China, and East Asia. He is the author of Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes (Princeton University Press, 2008) and co-editor of Rethinking China’s Rise: A Reader (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is currently completing a book-length study of major change in China’s military doctrine since 1949, entitled Active Defense: Explaining the Evolution of China’s Military (under advanced contract with Princeton University Press).

Chas W. Freeman, Jr. was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European secu-rity system and in reestablishing defense and military relations with China. He served as US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm). He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the historic US mediation of Namibian independence from South Africa and Cuban troop withdrawal from Angola.

Chas Freeman served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires in the American embassies at both Bangkok (1984-1986) and Beijing (1981-1984). He was Director for Chinese Affairs at the US Department of State from 1979-1981. He was the principal American interpreter during the late President Nixon’s path-breaking visit to China in 1972.

Ambassador Freeman earned a certificate in Latin American studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, cer-tificates in both the national and Taiwan dialects of Chinese from the former Foreign Service Institute field school in Taiwan, a BA magna cum laude from Yale University and a JD from the Harvard Law School. He is the author of The Diplomat’s Dictionary (Revised Edition) and Arts of Power, both published by the United States Institute of Peace in 1997, and a sought-after speaker on a wide variety of foreign policy issues. Ambassador Freeman is Chairman of the Board of Projects International, Inc., a Washington-based business development firm that specializes in arranging international joint ventures, acquisitions, and other business opera-tions for its American and foreign clients.

Charles L. Glaser is professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs and the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Elliott School’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at the George Washington University. His research focuses on inter-national relations theory and international security policy. Professor Glaser’s most recent book, Rational Theory of International Politics, was published by Princeton University Press in 2010. His research on international relations theory has focused on the security dilemma, defensive realism, the offense-defense balance, and arms races, including “When Are Arms Races Dangerous?” in International Security (2004). His recent publications on US nuclear weapons policy include “Counterforce Revisited” (with Steve Fetter), International Security (2005), and “National Missile Defense and the Future of US Nuclear Weapons Policy” (with Fetter) International Security (2001).

Professor Glaser holds a PhD from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He received a BS in Physics from MIT, and an MA in Physics and an MPP from Harvard. Before joining the George Washington University, Professor Glaser was the Em-mett Dedmon Professor of Public Policy and Deputy Dean at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He has also taught political science at the University of Michigan; was a visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and Coop-eration at Stanford; served on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon; was a peace fellow at the United States Institute of Peace; and was a research associate at the Center of International Studies at MIT.

Thomas C. Hubbard is senior director for Asia at McLarty Associates and specializes in Asian affairs. Ambassador Hubbard man-ages the firm’s client work throughout Asia, including its employees and advisors stationed in Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, and Singapore. A career foreign service officer for nearly 40 years, he served as US ambassador to the Republic of Korea from 2001 to 2004, and before that as ambassador to the Philippines from 1996 to 2000. Earlier in his career, he served seven years in Japan and was deputy chief of mission and acting ambassador in Malaysia. He held key Washington postings, including Philippines desk officer, country director for Japan, and principal deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs.

Increasingly involved in Korean Peninsular affairs in the 1990s, Ambassador Hubbard was a principal negotiator of the 1994 Agreed Framework aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, and headed the first senior level US government delegation to North Korea. He was also President Clinton’s envoy to promote human rights and democracy in Burma. Ambas-sador Hubbard currently serves as the chairman of The Korea Society in New York City and sits on numerous advisory boards. He received his BA in political science in 1965 from the University of Alabama and has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Maryland and the University of Alabama.

G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and is co-faculty director of the Princeton Project on National Security, a large, collaborative multi-year project that is examining the changing char-acter of America’s international security environment. Ikenberry is the author of numerous books including, among others: After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton, 2001); Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (Cornell, 1988); and Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the Ameri-can System (Princeton, 2011). He is the co-author of State Power and the World Economy (Norton Press, 2002) and The State (Min-nesota, 1989). Ikenberry serves on the editorial committee of World Politics and is co-editor of International Relations of the Asia

Pacific. He is the reviewer of books on political and legal affairs for Foreign Affairs, has published in all the major academic journals of international relations, and has written widely in policy journals.

Professor Ikenberry has been a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and was an Hitachi International Affairs Fellow, awarded by the Council on Foreign Rela-tions in New York in which he spent the year affiliated with the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo. Among many activities, he has served as a member of an advisory group at the State Department and was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Henry Kissinger-Lawrence Summers commission on the Future of Transatlantic Relations. Professor Ikenberry has also held posts at the State Department (Policy Planning staff) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Senior Associate).

Allan Layug is a Japanese Government Scholar at Sophia University, Japan. He received his MSc in International Relations through the Graduate ASEAN Scholarship from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore in 2006. His previous appoint-ments include: Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines; consultant to Philippine Congress (House of Representa-tives); consultant to the World Bank; Supervising Research Specialist at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (a leading policy think tank in the Philippines); Research Assistant at the University of Hong Kong; and Research Associate at the Asian Devel-opment Bank Institute. His academic and research interests cover Philippine politics and governance, ASEAN, US-China relations, and international relations theory.

He has published in international refereed journals, encyclopedias, and book chapters. His latest publication includes “Interna-tional Development Organizations” in Encyclopedia of International Security (Sage Publications , forthcoming). He contributed to the writing of the Three-year ASEAN-Canada Policy Research Programme: A Proposal by Prof. Richard R. Barichello and Dr. Josef T. Yap – a scoping study submitted to the ASEAN Studies Centre; to UNICEF’s Improving Local Service Delivery for the MDGs in Asia; as well as with Professor Amitav Acharya on the book, Ideas of Asia (forthcoming).

Ji-Young Lee is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Service of American University. She is a Korea/Asia expert with training in security studies and international relations. She has taught at Oberlin College and Georgetown University and has been a POSCO visiting fellow at the East-West Center. From 2005 and 2010, she was co-contributor of Japan-Korea relations for Com-parative Connections, the Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies, and is currently a non-resident James Kelly Korean Studies Fellow.

Dr. Lee received a PhD from Georgetown University, an MA in Security Studies from Georgetown University, an MA in Political Sci-ence from Seoul National University, and a BA in Political Science and Diplomacy from Ewha Womans University.

Satu Limaye is Director of the East-West Center Washington, a position he has held since February 2007. Immediately prior to be-ing appointed, he worked with the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, VA, as a member of the research staff. Previously, he served as director of the Honolulu-based APCSS’ research and publications division from July 1998 to October 2006.

Dr. Limaye was an Abe Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies, and a Luce Scholar and head of programs on South Asia at the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo. He has also written, edited, and co-edited numerous books, monographs, and studies, including U.S., Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle, Japan in a Dynamic Asia; Special Assessment: The Asia-Pacific and the United States, 2004-2005; Religious Radicalism in South Asia; and Special Assessment: Asia’s China Debate. Dr. Limaye earned his PhD in international relations at Oxford University’s Magdalen College as a Marshall Scholar. He did his undergraduate studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service where he graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

Edward J. Lincoln is a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University. He was director of the Center for Japan-US Busi-ness and Economic Studies and professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University, from 2006 to 2011. In 2012, he began teaching on East Asian economies at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. He has published widely on the Japanese economy and US-Japan trade relations. His publications include: East Asian Economic Regionalism (Brook-ings, 2004) and Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform (Brookings, 2001).

Amitabh Mattoo is the Director of the Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne and Professor of Disarmament Stud-ies at the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD) at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. His teaching and research interests include issues of international security, India’s foreign policy, and arms control and disarmament.

Professor Mattoo was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu from 2002 – 2008. He concurrently served as a Member of the National Knowledge Commission, a high-level advisory group to the Prime Minister of India. Professor Mattoo has been a member of India’s National Security Council’s Advisory Board and was also a member of the task force constituted by Prime Minis-ter Manmohan Singh on Global Strategic Developments.

He received his Doctorate from the University of Oxford and has been a visiting Professor at Stanford University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Illinois, and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. He has published 10 books and over 50 research articles (including in leading journals like Survival and Asian Survey). He writes regularly for Indian newspapers, including The Telegraph and The Hindu and is a commentator on television. Dr. Mattoo has been awarded the Padma Shri, one of India’s high-est civilian awards, for his contribution to education and public life.

Evan S. Medeiros is China director at the National Security Council. Previously he was a senior political scientist at the RAND Cor-poration in the Washington, DC office, where he specialized in the international politics of East Asia, China’s foreign and national security policy, US-China relations and Chinese defense industrial issues. He was also an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an M.Phil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, an MA in China Studies from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and a BA in analytic philosophy from Bates College. Dr. Medeiros is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Isao Miyaoka is Associate Professor in international politics at the Department of Political Science, the Faculty of Law, Keio Uni-versity. Previously, he taught at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies (2001-07) and Osaka University (2007-10). He received his D.Phil in politics from the University of Oxford in 1999. His English publications include a book titled Legitimacy in International Society: Japan’s Reaction to Global Wildlife Preservation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Currently, his research interests focus on inter-national relations theory, security studies, and Japan-US relations.

Deepa M. Ollapally is Associate Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and Associate Research Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. She is the recipient of grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, the Asia Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her research areas include Asian regional security; comparative politics of South Asia; Indian foreign policy; US-India relations; and identity politics and the international system. Her most recent book is The Politics of Extremism in South Asia, published by Cambridge University Press, 2008. She also published the book Confronting Conflict: Domestic Factors and U.S. Policymaking in the Third World. She has published articles in numerous journals including Foreign Affairs, Political Science Quarterly and Asian Survey. Her articles include “Identity Politics and the International System,” co-authored with Alexander Cooley in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. She previously directed the South Asia program at the US Institute of Peace and was an Associate Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. She was a Fel-low and Head at the International and Strategic Studies Program at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India. She is on the advisory council of Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace in New Delhi. She is a frequent commenta-tor in the media and has appeared on BBC, CNN, NPR, VOA and the Diane Rehm Show.

Mike M. Mochizuki is Associate Dean for Academic Programs and holds the Japan-US Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. Dr. Mochizuki was Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies from 2001 to 2005. He co-directs the “Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific” research and policy project of the Sigur Center. Previously he was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was also Co-Director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Policy at RAND and has taught at the University of Southern California and Yale University. His recent books include The Japan-U.S. Alliance and China-Taiwan Relations: Implications for Okinawa (co-editor and author, 2008), Japan in International Politics: The Foreign Policies of an Adaptive State (co-editor and author, 2007), The Okinawa Question and the U.S.-Japan Alliance (co-editor and author, 2005), Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal with a Nuclear North Korea (co-author, 2003). He has published articles in such journals as The American Interest, Asia Pacific Review, Foreign Affairs, International Security, Japan Quarterly, Journal of Strategic Studies, Nonproliferation Review, Survival, and Washington Quarterly. He is currently completing a book entitled A New Strategic Triangle: the U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Rise of China and co-editing a volume entitled Reconciling Rivals: War, Memory, and Security in East Asia.

Jong-dae Shin is Professor at the University of North Korean Studies, Seoul, and a former Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He received his PhD in 2002 from Sogang University, Seoul, with a dissertation that fo-cused on the North Korea factor of South Korean politics. He was researcher, research fellow, and director for planning at Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES), Kyungnam University. His current research focuses on North Korea’s foreign relations and inter-Kore-an relations. His numerous publications include Theory of Inter-Korean Relations (co-author, 2005), Principle Issues of South Korean Society and State Control (co-author, 2005), The Dynamics of Change in North Korea: An Institutionalist Perspective (co-author), and U.S.-ROK Relations During the Park Jung Hee Administration (co-author, 2009). His recent article, “North Korea’s Perception and Re-sponses toward the May 16th Coup d’etat in South Korea” was published in Korea Studies Quarterly in 2010.

Sheila A. Smith, an expert on Japanese politics and foreign policy, is senior fellow for Japan studies at the Council on Foreign Re-lations (CFR). Dr. Smith directed CFR’s New Regional Security Architecture for Asia Program and currently leads a project on “China and India as Emerging Powers: Challenge or Opportunity for the United States and Japan?” Dr. Smith was recently affiliated with Keio University in Tokyo, where she researched and wrote on Japan’s foreign policy toward China and the Northeast Asian region on an Abe Fellowship. Dr. Smith has been a visiting researcher at two leading Japanese foreign and security policy think tanks, the Japan Institute of International Affairs and the Research Institute for Peace and Security, and at the University of Tokyo and the University of the Ryukyus. Dr. Smith earned her and MA and PhD degrees from the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.

Among Dr. Smith’s publications are Shifting Terrain: The Domestic Politics of the U.S. Military in Asia, East-West Center Special Report No. 8 (East-West Center, 2006), “A Place Apart: Okinawa in Japan’s Postwar Peace” in Partnership: The United States and Japan, 1951-2001 (Kodansha International, 2001); and Local Voices, National Issues: Local Initiative in Japanese Policymaking (University of Michigan Press, 2000). She is a trustee for Japan-America Society of Washington, DC, and an executive committee member for the National Association of Japan-America Societies.

POWER AND IDENTITY IN ASIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION

Asia’s history is rife with major, decades-long interstate wars and significant intrastate conflicts. Indeed, the current period of relative peace is an historical anomaly. In 2009, the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs assembled a team of 11 leading security and international relations experts in Asia and the United States to undertake a major, three-year study examining Asian security, regional cooperation, and implications for US foreign policy, Power and Identity in Asia: Implications for Regional Cooperation.

Power and Identity aims to deepen our understanding of how identity issues and power transitions affect the foreign relations of China, India, Japan, Korea and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Understanding self-perceptions of identity and power is essential to addressing two issues: determining whether international relations in Asia in the foreseeable future are likely to be characterized by cooperation and regional integration or by security tensions and interstate war; second, assessing the dominant security orientations of the powers studied regarding cooperation with the United States and US leadership in Asia.

The project makes an important contribution to the international relations literature. Scholars increasingly study identity issues, but defining and operationalizing identity have remained problematic. A related problem has been a lack of cross-national com-parison and testing in the literature on the relationship between power and identity. Our project examines five cases across the same dimensions of identity which allows for cross-national comparison.

The new data produced from this research project is being disseminated through a range of vehicles to key constituencies such as international relations and security experts; Asian Studies scholars; foreign policy decisionmakers in the United States and Asia; the media; and university students. Specifically, the new understanding of power and iden-tity issues in Asia resulting from this study is made accessible through:

• Project website and blog (www.risingpowersinitiative.org)• International research conference in Washington, DC (April 2012)• Regional conferences in Beijing (May 2010) and New Delhi (February 2011)• Policy and media briefings in Washington, DC• Written policy commentaries on key Asian power and identity issues• Handbook and Regional Action Plan, Roadmap for Overcoming Historical Identity Con-

flicts• Edited volume manuscript under preparation

The Power and Identity in Asia project is part of the Elliott School’s signature Rising Pow-ers Initiative, a multi-year, multi-project research venture launched in 2009 and housed at the Sigur Center. The Elliott School of International Affairs – the largest professional school of international affairs in the United States – is uniquely positioned to oversee such major endeavors. Power and Identity in Asia is an excellent reflection of the Elliott School’s mission to situate itself at the intersection of academia and policy. This project brings together innovative research and practical policy analysis on the region that is arguably most critical to the United States in the 21st century.

Power and Identity in Asia is generously supported by a grant from the John D. and Cath-erine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Asia Security Initiative.

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

Mike MochizukiAssociate Dean for Academic Programs & Associate Professor of Political Science and Interna-tional Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, GWU

Deepa OllapallyAssociate Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies & Associate Research Professor of Interna-tional Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, GWU

PARTICIPANTS

ASEANAmitav Acharya, American UniversityAllan Layug, University of the Philippines, Diliman

CHINAAllen Carlson, Cornell UniversitySong Wei, Peking University

INDIADeepa Ollapally, GWUAmitabh Mattoo, Jawaharlal Nehru University & University of Melbourne

JAPANMike Mochizuki, GWUIsao Miyaoka, Keio UniversityDaqing Yang, GWU

KOREAGregg Brazinsky, GWUJong-dae Shin, University of North Korean Studies

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY Charles Glaser, GWU

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POWER AND IDENTITY IN ASIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION The Power and Identity project aims to deepen understanding of how identity issues and power transitions affect the international polices of China, India, Japan, Korea and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This is essential for addressing two issues: first, whether international relations in Asia in the foreseeable future are likely to be characterized by cooperation and regional integration or by security tensions and interstate war; second, assessing the dominant security orientations of the powers studied regarding cooperation with the United States and United States leadership in Asia.

The project will make an important contribution to international relations literature by defining, operationalizing, and examining identity issues across cases. Information about the relationship between identity and power in Asia is made available to policymakers, journalists and analysts through several mechanisms, including holding regional colloquia in Beijing and New Delhi, an international workshop in Washington DC, and through the production of policy briefs and commentaries.

PARTICIPANTSASEAN: Amitav Acharya, American University; Allan Layug, University of the Philippines, DilimanCHINA: Allen Carlson, Cornell University; Song Wei, Peking UniversityINDIA: Deepa Ollapally, GWU; Amitabh Mattoo, Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityJAPAN: Mike Mochizuki, GWU; Isao Miyaoka, Keio University; Daqing Yang, GWUKOREA: Gregg Brazinsky, GWU; Jong-dae Shin, University of North Korean Studies in Seoul U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: Charles Glaser, GWUCO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Mike Mochizuki & Deepa Ollapally

The Rising Powers Initiative is housed at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies. The Sigur Center for Asian Studies is an international research center of The Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. Its mission is to increase the quality and broaden the scope of scholarly research and publications on Asian affairs,

promote U.S.-Asia scholarly interaction and serve as the nexus for educating a new generation of students, scholars, analysts, and policymakers.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT US ON THE WEB:HTTP://WWW.RISINGPOWERSINITIATIVE.ORG

The Rising Powers Initiative is a multi-year, cross-national research effort that examines the role of domestic identities and foreign policy debates of aspiring powers in Asia. The Rising Powers Initiative consists of three distinct projects:

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ASIAN POWERS AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGESNo in-depth analysis of Asia’s rising and major powers is complete without a thorough study of the many dynamic economic issues in the region. A team of five GWU experts working with scholars in Asia and GWU student research as-sistants examines the regional and global economic impact and challenges of aspiring Asian powers, with a focus on the economic policies of China, India, Japan, and Korea. In par-ticular, this project investigates the rise of green industrial policy; trade, finance, and economic policy in China, Japan, and Korea; China’s monetary policy coordination with the United States; international economic relationships in India; and India’s economic relations with China. Under this project,

the Sigur Center has launched an Asian Economic Events series which brings leading experts from Asia and around the United States to GWU for public lectures. The Asian Powers and Economic Challenges project culminates in spring 2014 with a major international research conference at the Sigur Center at which the project participants present their research.

PARTICIPANTSRise of Green Industrial Policy in Asia: Llewelyn Hughes, GWUTrade, Finance, and Economic Policy in China, Japan, and Korea: Robert J. Weiner, GWUChina’s Monetary Policy Coordination with the United States: Jiawen Yang, GWUInternational Economic Relationships in India: Srividya Jandhyala, GWUIndia’s Economic Relations with China: Deepa Ollapally, GWU; Sudha Mahalingam, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board of IndiaCo-Principal Investigators: Edward McCord & Deepa Ollapally

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WORLDVIEWS OF ASPIRING POWERS: EXPLORING FOREIGN POLICY DEBATES ABROAD

PHASE I: 2009-2011PHASE II: 2011-2013

Phase I: The first phase of this project focused on identifying and tracking the internal foreign policy debates in five major and rising powers-China, Japan, India, Russia and

Iran. The strategic awakening and reawakening of these countries is leading to domestic debates about their own national security, international economic policymaking, image and power, and US global leadership. The research team developed a “schools of thought” framework useful for comparative analysis. An edited volume entitled Worldviews of Aspiring Powers is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2012.

Phase II: Phase 2 of this project aims to apply the framework developed from Phase 1 by exposing the domestic debates in rising powers to a Washington audience. The second phase adds a component on energy, maritime security and nuclear power that examines how different schools of thought react to these issues. The project will bring domestic perspectives on energy and maritime security together with differing views on nuclear power and nonproliferation in China, India, Japan, and Korea for the first time. This research produces fort-nightly Policy Alerts and will publish an edited book volume entitled, The Asian Energy Security Complex: Maritime Security, Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation and U.S. Policy Implications, along with numerous publications and major confer-ences and policy briefings in the United States and Asia.

PARTICIPANTS

CHINA: David Shambaugh, GWU; Robert Sutter, GWU; Ren Xiao, Fudan University; Daojiong Zha, Peking University

INDIA: Deepa Ollapally, GWU; Sudha Mahalingam, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board of India; Rajesh Rajagopalan, Jawaharlal Nehru University

IRAN: Farideh Farhi, University of Hawaii-Manoa; Saideh Lotfian, University of Tehran

JAPAN: Narushige Michishita, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; Mike Mo-chizuki, GWU; Richard Samuels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

KOREA: Scott Snyder, Council on Foreign Relations

RUSSIA: Shoichi Ito, Institute of Energy Economics; Andrew Kuchins, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Igor Zevelev, MacArthur Foundation, Moscow

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: Charles Glaser, GWU; Henry R. Nau, GWU

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Henry R. Nau & Deepa Ollapally

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