[KS] Tomorrow (3/7) at UC Berkeley: Prospects for Korean Reunification: Opportunities and Challenges for Neighboring Countries

Center for Korean Studies cks at berkeley.edu
Thu Mar 6 13:03:35 EST 2014


*The Center for Korean Studies*

*University of California, Berkeley*

*Cordially invites you to the following colloquium*

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*Prospects for Korean Reunification: Opportunities and Challenges for
Neighboring Countries*

Conference/Symposium: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian
Studies | *March 7 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m.* |  The David Brower
Center<http://www.browercenter.org/>



Location: 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/>,
Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in San Francisco, Center for
Korean Studies



Panel 1) Opportunities and Challenges of Reunification: Politics after the
Purge

Panel 2) Inside Kim Jong Un's North Korea: Society and Economy

Panel 3) U.S. and its Allies: Roles for Reunification

Speakers:

Charles Armstrong, Columbia University
Stephen Bosworth, Former Ambassador to South Korea and former U.S. Special
Representative for North Korea Policy
Jerome Cohen, New York University
John DeLury, Yonsei University
Thomas Gold, UC Berkeley
Stephen Haggard, UC San Diego
Jean Lee, Associated Press, North Korea
Sunny Lee, Stanford
Jonathan Pollack, Brookings Institution
Matthew Reichel, Pyongyang Project,
Orville Schell, Asia Society of New York
Gi-wook Shin, Stanford University
Kathleen Stephens, Former Ambassador to South Korea


Event Contact: ieas at berkeley.edu, 510-642-2809



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*And other upcoming events...*



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*Expanding Networks of Cooperation in East Asia*

Lecture: Center for Chinese Studies: Center for Korean Studies: Center for
Japanese Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies | *March 17 | 4 p.m.* |
 Institute of East Asian Studies



Location: 2223 Fulton St, 6th Floor, Berkeley, CA 94720-2318

Speaker: *T. J. Pempel*, Professor, Political Science, University of
California, Berkeley

Moderator: *Taeku Lee*, Professor, Political Science, University of
California, Berkeley

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/>
, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs/>, Center
for Korean Studies (CKS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/>, Center for
Japanese Studies (CJS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs/>



It may seem bizarre to talk of 'expanding networks of cooperation in East
Asia' at a time when Japanese Prime Minister Abe is telling the Davos World
Forum that relations between China and Japan are analogous to those between
Britain and Germany in 1914--the outbreak of World War I. Certainly, in
recent years, unresolved and increasingly tense maritime; expanding defense
budgets; contrasting 'historical memories;' and the American
'repositioning' in East Asia are but a few of the headline grabbers
suggesting that East Asia is 'ripe for rivalry.'

Yet, financial, trade and regional production linkages across East Asia
have never been deeper, nor expanding more quickly. Equally, formal
regional organizations such as the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN plus
Three, are exploding in number and influence.

This talk will examine this apparent disjuncture. Much of the explanation,
Pempel will argue, lies in how countries answer the question 'who is my
enemy?' In Northeast Asia particularly, on issues of hard security and
military matters, the leaders of China, Japan and both Koreas uniformly
point fingers are one another. That is far less true in Southeast Asia. And
on matters of finance and economics, most East Asian leaders are less
skeptical of one another and more likely to identify external finance and
bodies such as the International Monetary Fund as their largest threat,
leading them to greater cooperation with one another.



Event Contact: ieas at berkeley.edu, 510-642-2809

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*What Is Going On In North Korea?*

Lecture | April 8 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses
Hall<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?moses>



 Speaker: *Victor Cha*, Georgetown University & Center for Strategic and
International Studies

Sponsors: Institute of International Studies <http://iis.berkeley.edu/>, Center
for Korean Studies (CKS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/>



 What is going on in North Korea? Do recent events signal an opening in the
system or a spiraling down of the system? What challenges do the United
States and its allies face?

Professor Victor D. Cha (Ph.D. Columbia, MA Oxford, BA Columbia) is
director of Asian Studies and holds the D.S. Song Chair in the Department
of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. In
2009, he was named as Senior Adviser and the inaugural holder of the new
Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in
Washington, DC. He left the White House in May 2007 after serving since
2004 as Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. At the
White House, he was responsible primarily for Japan, the Korean peninsula,
Australia/New Zealand and Pacific Island nation affairs. Dr. Cha was also
the Deputy Head of Delegation for the United States at the Six Party Talks
in Beijing, and received two Outstanding Service commendations during his
tenure at the NSC.



 Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences



 Event Contact: rexille at berkeley.edu, 510-642-2474







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