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Sasakawa Peace Foundation - USA
Reconciled Publics vs. Polarized Politicians:
Korea-Japan Relations after the End of the Cold War
by
Dr. Park Cheol-hee
Assistant Professor
Seoul National University
Discussants:
Dr. Kent Calder
Director
Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, SAIS
Dr. Kojo Yoshiko
Professor of International Relations
University of Tokyo
Moderator:
Dr. Charles Kupchan
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University
Director of European Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
4:30-6:30 p.m.
at
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
Choate Room (1st Fl.)
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
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
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About This Seminar
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Dr. Park will talk about the development of Korea-Japan relations during the past few years, especially focusing on their recent troubled ties. As the "Korea Wave" currently taking place in Japan and the increase of cultural exchanges suggest, the Korean and Japanese people have already made an historical reconciliation with each other. On the political and diplomatic fronts however, conflict and confrontation prevail. Politicians are polarized due to domestic political concerns and evolving regional environments. Dr. Park will analyze the roots of cooperation and conflict between Korea and Japan, and will discuss how to improve bilateral relations. He will also examine the role of the U.S. in Korea-Japan relations.
Transcript (PDF format)
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About the Panelists
-Main Speaker
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Dr. Park Cheol-hee is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. His major field of study is Japanese politics and diplomacy. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Korea, where he was in charge of Japanese affairs. Between 1999 and 2002, he was an Associate Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan. In 2005 he received the first Nakasone Yasuhiro Award. Dr. Park received a B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University, and earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has written many articles on Japanese politics and Korea-Japan relations, including gPolitical Dynamics of Regime Transformation in Japan in the 1990s,h Japanese Journal of Political Science (2004). His columns regularly appear in the Chosun Ilbo, Joongang Ilbo, Asahi Shimbun, and Mainichi Shimbun.
Dr. Kent Calder
is Director of The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Director of Japan Studies, and Director of the Korea Initiative at The Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. Previously he was Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he taught for twenty years. He also served as Special Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1997-2001. He was Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies from 1989-1993 and 1996. He has also been Executive Director of the Harvard University Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Dr. Calder received his Ph.D. from Harvard. He is the author of Crisis and Compensation, recipient of the 1990 Arisawa and Ohira Prizes, Pacific Defense, recipient of the 1997 Mainichi Asia-Pacific Prize, and Strategic Capitalism, as well as co-author or editor of several other works.
Dr. Kojo Yoshiko
is Professor of International Relations at the University of Tokyo and currently Visiting Scholar at SAIS. Previously she was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Kokugakuin University. Dr. Kojo received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tokyo and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. She has published numerous books and articles, including gJapanfs Choice of Negotiating Framework in Multi-layered International Economic Relations,h in Global Governance: Germany and Japan in the International System (2004), International Politics, vol. 3: Globalization and International Politics (2004, editor, in Japanese) and gJapanfs Changing Attitude toward Adjusting Its Current Account Surplush in New Perspectives on U.S.-Japan Relations (2000).
Dr. Charles A. Kupchan
is Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department, Georgetown University. He is also Senior Fellow and Director of European Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Kupchan was Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration, and has also worked at the U.S. Department of State on the Policy Planning Staff. He received a B.A. from Harvard University and M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. He is the author of The End of the American Era (2002), Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001), Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community (1999), and numerous articles on international and strategic affairs.
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About the Seminar Program
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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.
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