标题: [china:] welcome to participate in the speaker series about Asian security

Hi All,

 

you are invete to participate in the Speaker Series program in Asian Security Studies,below is details.

 

 

Speaker Series
Program in Asian Security Studies, Duke University

1. Professor KWON Manhak -- "Korean Reunification and North Korea Policy"
Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library, Duke University
October 31, 2008, 3:30-5:00 pm

KWON Manhak is a professor of international relations at Kyung Hee
University, South Korea and currently a visiting scholar at University
of Pennsylvania teaching South Korean Politics. His research interests
center on Korean Political Economy, Inter-Korean Relations, and East
Asian Regional Politics. His recent publications include Dialectics of
Korean Division and Reunification, "Pathways from State Socialism and
North Korea," "Negotiation or Confrontation: the Future of
Inter-Korean Relations," and "East Asia and U.S. in Politics and
Security." He served as Dean of the College of Management and
International Relations, Kyung Hee University, a Vice President of the
Korean Association of International Studies and Korean Political
Association, and a member of the Presidential Commission for Policy
Planning, Government Policy Evaluation Committee, and Nominating
Committee for National Assembly Candidates, Open Uri Party. Until
recently, he was a member of the Advisory Council, Korea Economic
Institute of America, Washington, D.C. He received an M.A. and Ph.D.
in Government, University of Texas-Austin, and a BA. in Political
Science, Seoul National University.


2. Mr. Dongyoung Chung -- "The Fourth Wave on the Korean Peninsula:  a
proposal on the two Koreas for the new U.S. administration"
Alumni Memorial Common Room, Divinity School, Duke University
November 6, 2008, 5:00-6:30 pm

Chung Dong-young was the United New Democratic Party candidate for
President of South Korea in 2007. From April 2004 until December 2005,
Chung was the South Korean Minister of Unification. Before holding
that post, he served two terms in the National Assembly with the
National Congress for New Politics and the Millennium Democratic
Party, respectively; has twice been chairman of the Uri Party. He has
a bachelor's degree in Korean History from Seoul National University
(1979) and master's from the University of Wales, and before entering
politics, he was a journalist and anchor at the Politics Section of
the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation.

3. Professor Emerson Niou, "Public Opinion and Security Stability in
the Taiwan Straits"
125 Hudson Hall, Duke University (http://map.duke.edu/building.php?bid=7747)
November 7, 2008, 3:30-5:00 pm

EMERSON M.S. NIOU (Ph.D., U. of Texas at Austin, 1987) is Professor of
Political Science at Duke University.  He is the co-author of The
Balance of Power, Cambridge University Press, 1989.  His recent
publications include: "Strategic Voting under Plurality and Runoff
Rules," Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2001; "A Theory of Economic
Sanctions and Issue Linkage," with Dean Lacy, Journal of Politics,
2004; "Understanding Taiwan Independence and Its Policy Implications,"
Asian Survey, July 2004; "Term Limits as a Response to Incumbency
Advantage," with Kongpin Chen, Journal of Politics, May 2005; and
"External Threat and Collective Action," with Guofu Tan, Economic
Inquiry, 43(3), July 2005, pp. 1-12. His current research projects
include: (1)security balance in the Taiwan Strait, (2) institutions
and reforms in China, (3) local self-governance in China, (4) alliance
formation and alliance politics, and (5) calculus of voting.