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Asian Vocies: Promoting Dialogue between the U. S. and Asia

"Six-Party Talks: What Does North Korea Really Want?"

by

Mr. Ralph Cossa
President
Pacific Forum CSIS

Discussants:

Mr. Naoyuki Agawa
Minister for Public Affairs
Embassy of Japan

Dr. Sook-jong Lee
Visiting Fellow
The Brookings Institution

Moderator:

Dr. G. John Ikenberry
Peter. F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Global Justice
Georgetown University

November 19th, 2003
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

at

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Choate Room
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Reception Will Follow the Seminar RESERVATIONS SUGGESTED

Transcript (PDF format)

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The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program is supported by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation

About the Panelists
-Main Speaker

Mr. Ralph Cossa is President of the Pacific Forum CSIS. He manages the Forum's programs on security, political, economic, and environmental issues. He sits on the steering committee of the Council For Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, serves as Executive Director of the U.S. Committee of CSCAP, and is a board member of the Council on U.S.-Korean Security Studies. Mr. Cossa has over 25 years of experience in formulating and implementing U.S. security policy in the Asia-Pacific and Near East-South Asia regions. He is a retired USAF Colonel and a former national security affairs fellow at the Hoover Institution. Mr. Cossa holds a B.A. from Syracuse University, an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University and an M.S. in strategic studies from the Defense Intelligence College.

-Discussants

Mr. Naoyuki Agawa is Minister for Public Affairs and Director of the Japan Information and Culture Center at the Embassy of Japan. Previously, he was a professor at Keio University, Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Virginia Law School, among others. Minister Agawa has also worked as an attorney at Nishimura and Partners and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in both Tokyo and Washington, D.C. He has been a member of an advisory group to Foreign Minister Kawaguchi on the reform of the Foreign Ministry and a member of the U.S.-Japan Strategic Study Group, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan. He received a B.S.F.S. and J.D. from Georgetown University. Minister Agawa has published many books and articles, including I am Proud to be Pro-American (2003), Dialogue on America (co-author, 2002), and Friendship on the Seas: A History of the Relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the United States Navy (2001).

Dr. Sook-jong Lee is Visiting Fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, the Brookings Institution and Senior Research Fellow at the Sejong Institute in South Korea. She will study the future of the U.S.-Korea Alliance while at Brookings. Previously Dr. Lee was a lecturer at Yonsei University, a visiting fellow at the University of Tokyo and a visiting fellow at Cambridge University. She received a B.A. from Yonsei University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Lee has published many articles, including Civil Society and Democratic Governance in Japan, (forthcoming, 2003) and Sources of Anti-Americanism in Korean Society: Implications for Korea-U.S. Relations (2003).

-Moderator

Professor G. John Ikenberry is the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Global Justice at Georgetown University. He also has been a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Professor Ikenberry is the author of numerous publications, including, State Power and World Markets: The International Political Economy (2002), After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (2000), and Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (1988).

About the Seminar Program

The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program seeks to provide a forum for Asian voices to be heard within the Washington community-voices on a wide range of regional and global topics. The Seminar Program, however, will not be restricted solely to Asia-Pacific issues, or US-Japan relations, but will focus on the broader global questions that confront both parts of the world.