In celebration of the launch of the Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs, the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Office of the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies present

Negotiating Growth in Asia

Tuesday, January 13

12:00-1:30 PM

CSIS, Washington, D.C.

(Light lunch will be served)

Asia's rapid growth is one of the most important stories of the twenty-first century. Billions of people are emerging from poverty on the world's most populous continent in what has to be considered the world's most significant economic success story to date. The transformation of the lives of people in Asia has far-reaching effects on actors both inside and outside the region who, in turn, must try to keep pace. How are governments and citizens in Asia reacting to dynamic change across the region? What are the competing interests? How can we understand growth in Asia more holistically? At this event, the three distinguished speakers will explore the different aspects of growth in Asia: growth of power, growth of democracy, and economic development.

Speakers:

Christopher Johnson is a senior advisor and Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Previously, Mr. Johnson served in the U.S. government's intelligence and foreign affairs communities and has extensive experience analyzing and working in Asia on a diverse set of country-specific and transnational issues. Throughout his career, he has chrnoicled China's dynamic political and economic transformation, the development of its robust military modernization program, and its resurgence as a regional and global power. While working as a senior China analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Mr. Johnson played a key role in the analytic support to policymakers during the 1996 Taiwan Strait missile crisis.

Apichai Shipper is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the Asia Regional Chair at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. After receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University before joining the faculty at the university of Southern California. He is the author of Fighting for Foreigners: Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2008). Dr. Shipper's publications have appeared in Asian Politics & Policy, Critical Asian Studies, Journal of Japanese Studies, International Studies Quarterly, among others.

Robert "Skipp" Orr is is currently the U.S. Executive Director to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with the Rank of Ambassador. As U.S. Executive Director, Amb. Orr serves on the Board of Directors at the ADB which makes decisions on loans, investments, grant and policy proposals, oversees the financial and management operations of the ADB, and provides broad strategic guidance to the ADB's senior management. Previously, Amb. Orr served as the Chairman of the Board of the Panasonic Foundation, President of Boeing Japan, and Vice President and Director of European Affairs for Motorola. Between 1985 and 1993, Amb. Orr taught as a professor of political science at Temple University in Japan. Amb. Orr is the author of The Emergence of Japan's Foreign Aid Power (Columbia University Press, 1990).

Moderator:

Victor Cha is Director of Asian Studies and D.S. Song-KF Professor of Government & International Affairs at Georgetown University. He is also Senior Advisor and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). From 2004 to 2007, Dr. Cha served as Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. At the White House, he was primarily responsible for Japan, the Korean peninsula, Autralia/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. During his tenure at the White House, he received two Outstanding Service commendations. Under Dr. Cha's directorship, the Asian Studies Program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University launched a new peer-reviewed journal, titled the Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs.