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<p align="center" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4"><b>Alliances in Alignment: The Past, Present and Future of Trilateral Cooperation between the ROK, US and Japan</b><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p><font size="4" color="#0433ff"><b>**Update: We now have chairs and discussants confirmed for this event: Chris Hughes (Warwick) and Giulia Garbagni (Cambridge) will be chairing, and Edward Howell (Oxford) and Gi-wook Shin (Stanford) will be serving as discussants.**</b></font></p>
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<p><font size="4"><b>Event Description</b><br>
How has trilateral cooperation between the ROK, the US, and Japan been conceived and developed, and where does its future lie? This special roundtable brings together leading scholars and experts to explore the evolution and prospects of trilateral cooperation
among the Republic of Korea, the United States and Japan. Through two panels, the program will examine the historical pathways and political conditions that enabled the landmark 2023 Camp David summit, as well as the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead
for this emerging partnership. Panelists will consider the role of leadership, domestic and international dynamics, and shifting regional and global contexts in shaping trilateralism, while also addressing prospects for deeper collaboration across security,
economic, and societal domains. By combining insights from history, political science, and international relations, the conference will provide a timely and comprehensive assessment of the strengths, limitations, and future trajectory of the relations betweel
Seoul, Washington and Tokyo.<br>
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<b>Date and Time</b>: Friday 10 October, 10:30am-2:30pm<br>
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<b>Location</b>: Bradfield Room, Darwin College, Cambridge<br>
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<b>Panel Information</b><br>
<b>Panel One (Morning Session: 10.30am-12pm) - Trilateralism: the Past and the Present<br>
</b>Chair: Giulia Garbagni<br>
Panelists: Young-kwan Yoon; Sheila Smith; Hiro Akita<br>
Discussant: Edward Howell<br>
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The Road to Camp David. What enabled the US, Japan and the ROK to reach a new cooperative trilateral partnership in August of 2023 and how much did this represent a departure from past historical norms? What were the conditions, domestic and international (both
global and regional) that ensured that the new partnership could be realised? How much of a critical factor was personal leadership in effecting this agreement and what was the substance of the agreement in concrete terms? What perspective do the disciplines
of history, political science and international relations offer in understanding the limits and opportunities of ROK-Japan-US trilateralism?<br>
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<b>Panel Two (Afternoon Session: 1pm-2.30pm) - Trilateralism: the Future<br>
Chair</b>: Chris Hughes<br>
<b>Panelists</b>: Kuyoun Chung; Jeffrey Hornung; Yuichi Hosoya<br>
<b>Discussant</b>: Gi-wook Shin<br>
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What are the key critical challenges and opportunities for the partnership? How much of the initial agreement remains, in substance; how much remains to be comprehensively and materially realised? What are the key issue areas in terms of cooperation that offer
the prospect of substantive progress, whether economic, security (broadly defined), diplomatic or in terms of person-to-person cooperation. How much has a change of leadership in each of the three countries disrupted or helped sustain trilateral cooperation?
What role might public opinion in all three countries play in either sustaining or undermining this partnership? Is the partnership fit for purpose or does it need to be supplemented by other forms of bilateral or minilateral cooperation?<br>
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<b>About the Panellists</b><br>
<b>Young-kwan Yoon</b> is Chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies and Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea from
2003 to 2004. Professor Yoon taught at Seoul National University from 1990 to 2018. Before joining the faculty there, he taught for three years at the University of California, Davis. Over the course of his academic career, he has held visiting appointments
at leading institutions abroad. He was a Senior Visiting Scholar with the Korea Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and served as the Kim Koo Visiting Professor in Harvard\u2019s Department of Government (2021).
He was also a visiting scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), Stanford University (2005), and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University (1997\u20131998). In addition to his
academic work, Professor Yoon has played an active role in policy and diplomacy. He served as Vice President of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs (2013\u20132019) and as Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Parliamentary Diplomacy of the National Assembly
of Korea (2019\u20132020). He was Korea\u2019s Eminent Representative to, and Co-Chair of, the East Asia Vision Group II under the ASEAN+3 Summit framework (2011\u20132012). Professor Yoon has published more than a dozen books and around 80 scholarly articles in the fields
of international political economy, Korea\u2019s foreign policy, and inter-Korean relations. His work has appeared in leading journals and outlets such as World Politics, International Political Science Review, The National Interest, Asian Survey, and Project Syndicate.
He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.</font></p>
<p><font size="4"><b>Sheila A. Smith</b> is John E. Merow senior fellow for Asia-Pacific studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An expert on Japanese politics and foreign policy, she is the author of Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power,
Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China (released in Japanese as \u65e5\u4e2d \u89aa\u611b\u306a\u308b\u5bbf\u6575: \u5909\u5bb9\u3059\u308b\u65e5\u672c\u653f\u6cbb\u3068 \u5bfe\u4e2d\u653f\u7b56), and Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance. She is also the author of the CFR interactive guide Constitutional Change in Japan. Smith
is a regular contributor to the CFR blog Asia Unbound and a frequent contributor to major media outlets in the United States and Asia. Smith is chair of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and the U.S. advisors to the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural
and Educational Interchange (CULCON), a binational advisory panel of government officials and private-sector members. She teaches as an adjunct professor at the Asian studies department of Georgetown University and serves on the board of its Journal of Asian
Affairs. She also serves on the advisory committee for the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future program of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation.</font></p>
<p><font size="4"><b>Hiroyuki Akita</b> is a Foreign & Security Affaires Commentator of Nikkei. Mr. Akita graduated from Jiyu Gakuen College in 1987 and received an M.A. in International Relations from Boston University in 1991. He entered Nikkei in 1987 and
served in various positions, including Correspondent at the Beijing Bureau (1994-98), Staff Writer of the Political News Dept. (1998-2002), and Chief Correspondent at the Washington, D.C., Bureau (2002-06). He worked at Leader Writing Team of the Financial
Times in London (16/10-12).He was also an Associate of the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard University (2006-2007). Mr. Akita is the author of two books about US-China-Japan relations (Nikkei, 2008, 2016). He received the Vaughn-Uyeda Memorial International
Journalistic Prize in March 2019 for his exceptional international reporting.</font></p>
<p><font size="4"><b>Kuyoun Chung</b> is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Kangwon National University and a Non-resident Fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in South Korea. Her research focuses on US foreign policy, Korean peninsula,
alliance politics, regional security architecture, maritime security, nuclear politics, and emerging technologies. Her academic articles have been published in Australian Journal of International Affairs, Asia-Europe Journal, Korea Observer, Korean Journal
of Defense Analysis, Asian Politics and Policy, Asia Policy, Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, and others. Her commentaries have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, The Brookings Institution, East Asia Forum Quarterly, Global Asia, Korean on Point, and The
Asan Forum. Also, she regularly contributes columns to Segye Ilbo and Kangwon Ilbo, South Korea. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Korea University, and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Previously, she was
a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at UCLA, a visiting professor at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, and a research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification. Also, she served as a policy advisor for the National Security
Council under the Office of the President, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Unification. Currently, she serves as a member of the policy advisory committee of Ministry of Defense and the Republic of Korea Navy.</font></p>
<p><font size="4"><b>Jeffrey W. Hornung</b> is the Japan Lead for the RAND National Security Research Division and a senior political scientist at RAND. He specializes in Japanese security and foreign policies, East Asian security issues, and U.S. foreign and
defense policies in the Indo-Pacific region, including its alliances. He is concurrently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Prior to joining RAND in April 2017, Hornung was the fellow for the Security and Foreign Affairs Program at Sasakawa USA
from 2015 until 2017. From 2010 until 2015, Hornung worked as an associate professor for the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, a Department of Defense education facility in Honolulu, Hawaii. Hornung has written extensively about Japanese
security and foreign policy issues and broader Northeast Asia security issues for numerous media, policy, and academic outlets. This includes Washington Quarterly, Asian Survey, Foreign Policy, New York Times, Washington Post, War on the Rocks, and many others,
including the two major Japanese dailies Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun. Hornung received his Ph.D. in political science from The George Washington University. During 2005\u20132006, Hornung was also a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo where he conducted
his doctoral research as a Fulbright Fellow. He also holds an M.A. in international relations with a concentration in Japan studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).</font></p>
<p><font size="4"><b>Yuichi Hosoya</b> is a professor of international politics at Keio University, Tokyo.<br>
He was a Visiting Fellow at Downing College, the University of Cambridge (-July 2022). Professor Hosoya is Managing Director & Research Director at the Asia-Pacific Initiative (API), Tokyo. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Nakasone Peace Institute (NPI),
a Senior Fellow at The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, and also Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). Professor Hosoya was a member of the Prime Minister\u2019s Advisory Panel on Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for
Security (2013-14), and Prime Minister\u2019s Advisory Panel on National Security and Defense Capabilities (2013). Professor Hosoya studied international politics at Rikkyo (BA), Birmingham (MIS), and Keio (Ph.D.). He was a visiting professor and Japan Chair (2009\u20132010)
at Sciences-Po in Paris (Institut d\u2019E\u0301tudes Politiques) and a visiting fellow (Fulbright Fellow, 2008\u20132009) at Princeton University. His research interests include postwar international history, British diplomatic history, Japanese foreign and security policy,
and contemporary East Asian international politics. His most recent publications include Security Politics: Legislation for a New Security Environment (Tokyo: JPIC, 2019); History, Memory & Politics in Postwar Japan (Co-editor, Lynne Rienner: Boulder, 2020);
and \u201cJapan\u2019s Security Policy in East Asia\u201d, in Yul Sohn and T.J. Pempel (eds.), Japan and Asia\u2019s Contested Order: The Interplay of Security, Economics, and Identity (Palgrave, 2018). His comments often appeared at major international and Japanese media.<br>
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<p><font size="4"><b>About the Chairs and Discussants</b><br>
<b>Giulia Garbagni</b> is an Early Career Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Her research focuses on the political and diplomatic history of postwar Japan, with an emphasis on the role of special envoys in Japanese foreign policy during the
Cold War. She was previously a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of War Studies, King\u2019s College London; an AHRC Fellow at the Kluge Center, Library of Congress; a Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo; and a Korea Foundation
Fellow at Sogang University in Seoul. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and is a graduate of St Antony\u2019s College, Oxford, Peking University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Bologna.<br>
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<b>Edward Howell</b> is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford, the Korea Foundation Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London, and a Research Fellow with the Pharos Foundation. His research specialises
in the international relations and security of Northeast Asia, with a focus on North Korea\u2019s foreign policy, inter-Korean relations, U.S.-DPRK relations, and UK policy towards the Indo-Pacific. Edward\u2019s latest book, North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order:
When Bad Behaviour Payswas published by Oxford University Press in 2023, and concerned North Korea\u2019s delinquent behaviour since the end of the Cold War. He is a Non-Resident Fellow of the University of Vienna, and has served as an Emerging Leaders Fellow of
the Ministry of Unification, Republic of Korea, and a Contributing Writer for The Economist Intelligence Unit. Edward frequently offers analysis and commentary for international and national media outlets, including, BBC News, The Telegraph, and The Spectator.
He also engages with national and international thinktanks, including the Sejong Institute (South Korea), the Council on Geostrategy (London), and the Royal United Services Institute (London). Edward received a prizewinning B.A. in Geography, and M.Phil. and
D.Phil. in International Relations, all from the University of Oxford.<br>
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<b>Chris Hughes</b> is Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS), University of Warwick. He was formerly at Warwick Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Vice-President (Education), Chair/Dean of the
Faculty of Social Sciences, and Head of Department in PAIS. He has been a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Research Fellow, University of Hiroshima; Visiting Associate Professor and Asahi Shimbun Visiting Chair of Mass Media and Politics, Faculty
of Law, University of Tokyo; Visiting Professor at Waseda University; Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin; Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies at the Department of Government, Harvard University; Distinguished Visiting
Professor at the Nissan Institute, University of Oxford; and NTUC Visiting Professor of International Economic Relations, Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United
Services Institute. He has also held associate fellow status at Chatham House and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Chris is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Chris holds degrees
from the Universities of Oxford (BA); Rochester, New York (MA); and Sheffield (MA and PhD). Chris is co-editor of The Pacific Review, one of the leading journals focussing on the international politics of the Asia-Pacific. He has authored over 60 refereed
journal articles and book chapters, and five monographs. His latest monograph isJapan as a Global Military Power: New Capabilities, Alliance Integration, Bilateralism-Plus (Cambridge University Press, 2022).<br>
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<b>Gi-wook Shin</b> is the William J. Perry Professor of Contemporary Korea in Sociology and a senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. From 2005-2025, he directed the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research
Center and currently leads the Stanford Korea Program, the Stanford Taiwan Program, and the Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab, all of which he founded. His research explores nationalism, development, democratization, and international relations in Korea and Asia.
He has authored or edited 27 books, including the recently published The Four Talent Giants (Stanford University Press, 2025). Before Stanford, he taught at Iowa and UCLA. Shin holds a BA from Yonsei University and an MA and PhD from the University of Washington.<br>
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<b>About the Moderator</b><br>
John Nilsson-Wright is the Fuji Bank Professor of Japanese Politics and the International Relations of East Asia at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES) at the University of Cambridge and an Official Fellow at Darwin College. He is a graduate
of Christ Church and St. Antony\u2019s Colleges, Oxford, and SAIS Johns Hopkins University. He was Head of the Chatham House Asia Programme from March 2014 to October 2016 and has also been the Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia and Korea Foundation Fellow
with Chatham House\u2019s Asia-Pacific Programme. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Sejong Institute in Seoul, ROK; Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Korea Centre, East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS); and a non-resident fellow at the
Centre for North Korean Studies at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on Cold War history including US-Japan alliance ties, and the contemporary international relations and politics of Northeast Asia, with reference to Japan and the Koreas. In
his policy work, he focuses on regional security and the changing nature of alliance relations in East Asia. He is currently writing a monograph on populism and identity politics as a contemporary and historical phenomenon in both Europe and Northeast Asia.<br>
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<b>Sponsorship</b></font></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">This event is co-hosted by the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Centre for Geopolitics at the Unviersity of Cambridge. This event is sponsored by Korea Foundation.</span><font size="4"><img alt="Alliances Roundtable Poster.png" src="cid:04BA7B03-1DF4-4017-AF65-7004BC7C200E"></font></p>
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