International Relations of Asia 2010:
Perspectives and Policy on a Changing Regional Order
Friday 16 April 2010
Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building
1740 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.
8:30am to 4:00pm International Relations of Asia 2010 showcases student research on contemporary hard security, energy, trade and finance, regional initiatives, and non-traditional security issues in Asia. With support from SAIS faculty and in partnership with The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), a research organization dedicated to informing and strengthening U.S. policy toward the Asia-Pacific (http://www.nbr.org), the conference is organized by students enrolled in the SAIS course International Relations of Asia after WWII. To RSVP for lunch or for questions, please contact Carla Freeman and Tabitha Mallory at IRofAsia@jhu.edu. Welcome
Kenney Auditorium
8:30 - 9:00am (Registration and breakfast from 8:00am)
Karl Jackson, Director, Asian Studies and Southeast Asian Studies, SAIS
Meredith Miller, Vice President, Economic and Trade Affairs & Outreach, NBR Session One
9:00 - 10:30am Panel 1: Hard Security
9:00 - 10:30am
Kenney Auditorium Chair: David M. Lampton, Director, China Studies, SAIS Discussants:
James Green, Office of Policy Planning, US Department of State
Dean Cheng, Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation Paper Presenters:
Sarah Yun, Nonproliferation Policies of the U.S. and China & Implications for North Korea
Emily McLeod, More than a Decade of Defense: The United States in China's National Defense Papers and China in the Quadrennial Defense Review
Jeffrey Tang, Cross-Strait Relations and its Impact on the Policy of U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan
Ben Arendt, Futenma MCAS and the Changing Japan-US Alliance Paradigm: Base Politics
Panel 2: South Asia
9:00 - 10:30am
Herter Room Chair: Walter Andersen, Acting Director, South Asia, SAIS Discussants:
Lisa Curtis, Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation
Matthew C.J. Rudolph, Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgetown University Paper Presenters:
Kate Chekan, Power Shift: An Analysis of Prospects for Sino-Indian Trade in the Post-crisis Era
Jeannie Rose, Caught between the Elephant and the Dragon: Nepali Reforms and Asia Regional Stability
Robert Lyons, Looking South for its East to West International Approach: How China Benefits from Peace between India and Pakistan
Session Two
10:45am - 12:15pm Panel 3: Nontraditional Security
10:45am - 12:15pm
Kenney Auditorium Chair: Jae-Jung Suh, Director, Korean Studies, SAIS Discussants:
Melissa Murphy, Fellow, China Studies, CSIS
Drew Thompson, Director and Starr Senior Fellow, China, The Nixon Center Paper Presenters:
Aurora Carlson, Sino-Afghan Narcotics Trafficking: Security Threat from the Golden Crescent
Dennis Hood, Calories and Cooperation: Food Security, Food Safety and Prospects for Asian Regionalism
Chris Liu, Assessing the Response of Korean Government and Society to Immigration: Special Focus on the role of Korean Chinese Panel 4: Trade and Finance
10:45am - 12:15pm
Herter Room Chair: Pieter Bottelier, Senior Adjunct Professor, China Studies, SAIS Discussants:
Albert Keidel, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Giovanna Dore, Sustainable Development Specialist, World Bank; Ph.D. Candidate, Southeast Asian Studies, SAIS Paper Presenters:
Liana Hinch, Indonesia: Decentralization and Its Impact on the Provision of Public Services
Patrick Douglass, Is China's Stimulus Sustainable?
Sophie Lu, Dimensions to Global Imbalances: Identifying the relationship between China's development and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis
Keynote Address
12:15 - 1:15pm
Kenney Auditorium
Vali Nasr
Senior Advisor to the Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke
U.S. Department of State
Buffet Lunch (by RSVP: IRofAsia@jhu.edu)
1:15 - 2:00pm Kenney-Herter
Session Three
2:15 - 3:45pm Panel 5: Energy
2:15 - 3:45pm
Kenney Auditorium Chair: Deborah Bleviss, Acting Director, Energy, Resources, and Environment Program, SAIS Discussants:
Alan Hegburg, Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS
Levi Tilleman-Dick, Associate, Cambridge Energy Research Associates; Ph.D. Candidate, Japan Studies, SAIS Paper Presenters:
Leigh Hendrix, The Implications of Energy Relations between Turkmenistan and China: Giants in Supply and Demand Working Together
Sumiyo Nishizaki, Russia's Energy Politics: A New Focus on the Developing Asian Energy Market
Nathaniel Taplin, Never Waste a Crisis: The Chinese Cleantech Industry's Response to the Great Recession Panel 6: Regional Issues
2:15 - 3:45pm
Herter Room Chair: William Wise, Associate Director, SAIS Southeast Asian Studies Discussants:
Daqing Yang, Associate Professor, Elliott School, George Washington University
Priscilla Clapp, Independent Scholar; U.S. State Department, retired Paper Presenters:
Amanda Larson, Japan and China: Resolving the Past to Work Towards a Better Future
Youngji Jo, Greater Tumen Initiative: Regional Development Cooperation in Northeast Asia
Awidya Santikajaya, The ASEAN Way: Between Internal Dynamism and External Pressures
Closing Remarks
3:45 - 4:00pm
Kenney-Herter
Carla Freeman, Associate Director, China Studies, SAIS
Tabitha Mallory, Ph.D. Candidate, China Studies, SAIS | 
