Student Bulletin Board

2011-09-08

International Conference Announcement "Democracy and Diplomacy in East Asia"

International Conference Announcement

Title: Democracy and Diplomacy in East Asia
Date: September 16, 9 am~
Venue: Kojima Hall (next to Akamon), University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus
Language: English
No advance registration is required.

The tentative programs is as follows

THE PROGRAM

8:50-9:00   Opening Remarks Yasuhiro Matsuda (University of Tokyo)

9:00-10:10   The International Context in East Asian Democracies
Nobuhiro Hiwatari (University of Tokyo) "Partisan Governments and Foreign Policy"
Atsushi Tago (Kobe University) "Alliance Commitment to East Asian Countries and US Party Politics"
Discussants Keisuke Iida (University of Tokyo)

10:20-11:50   Foreign Policy of Korea
Hee Min Kim (Seoul National University) "A New Approach to the Maritime Dispute Involving a Former Colonizer-Colony Pair: The Case of the Dokdo-Takeshima Dispute between Japan and Korea"
Yeongun Kim (Keimyung University) "Partisan Turnover of the Korean Presidency and the North Korea Policy"
Min Gyo Koo (Seoul National University) "Partisanship and South Korean Foreign Economic Policy"
Discussion Kan Kimura (Kobe University)

12:50-14:00   Foreign Policy of Taiwan
Emerson Niou (Duke University) "Alliance Commitment to East Asian Countries and US Party Politics"
Yasuhiro Matsuda (University of Tokyo) "Taiwan's Partisan Politics and its Impact on the US-Taiwanese Relations"
Discussants Gregory W. Noble (University of Tokyo)

14:10-15:40   Foreign Policy of Japan
Jun Saito (Yale University) "Politics of U.S. Bases in Okinawa: Electoral Politics and Diplomacy"
Hiroyuki Hoshiro (University of Tokyo) "Building an 'East Asian Community' in Vain: Japan's Power Shift and Regionalism in the New Millennium"
Ming Wan (George Mason University) "Japan's Party Politics and its China Policy: The Chinese Fishing Boat Collision Incident"
Discussants Atsushi Ishida (University of Tokyo)

Please see the following website for the details.

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