by

Dr. Anwar Ibrahim
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
Distinguished Visiting Professor,Georgetown University


Discussants:

Dr. Karl Jackson
Director of Asian Studies
School of Advanced Intl. Studies (SAIS)


Ambassador John Malott
Managing Director
ManattJones Global Strategies

Moderator:

Dr. G. John Ikenberry
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

Monday, December 12th, 2005
11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

at

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
1800 K Street, N.W., B-1 Conference Center, Room B
Washington, D.C.



For information or to register for this event please contact Seminar Program at 202-296-6694 or at seminar@spfusa.org

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

Dr. Karl Jackson is the Director of the Asian Studies Program of the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is also C.V. Starr Distinguished Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Director of the Southeast Asia Studies Program at SAIS. Previously he taught at the University of California, Berkeley for 19 years. Dr. Jackson served as the Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs from 1991-1993. He has also been Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. In addition, he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia from 1986-1989. Dr. Jackson received his Ph.D. from MIT. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including Traditional Authority, Islam and Rebellion: A Study of Indonesian Political Behavior (1980) and edited Asian Contagion: The Causes and Consequences of a Financial Crisis (1999).

Mr. Yang Bojiang is Visiting Fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, the Brookings
Institution, and Professor and Director, Institute for Japanese Studies, and Director, Institute for Korean Peninsula Studies, at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR). He is a council member of the Chinese Association for Japanese Studies and a committee member of CSCAP China. Mr. Yang received an M.A. from CICIR and is a currently a Ph.D. candidate. He has published the following articles in Chinese, among others: “Japan in the Process of State-Transition,” Strategic and Security Review 2004-2005, (2005) and “Japan’s Security Strategy and Sino-Japanese Relations in the Early 21st Century,” Japan in the 21st Century: Political and Diplomatic Tendency (2000).

-Moderator

Ambassador John Malott is Managing Director (Asia-Pacific) at ManattJones Global Strategies. Previously he served for 31 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, where he held such senior positions as Ambassador to Malaysia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, and Consul General in Osaka, Japan. He also served as director of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Japanese Affairs and as American Consul in Bombay, India and Kobe, Japan. Ambassador Malott received a B.A. from Northwestern University and also attended the National War College. He has published many articles, including “Looking at China through a Foggy Crystal Ball,” Orange County Register (2001), and “Asia Needs Some Self-Honesty,” Far Eastern Economic Review (1999).

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.