George W. Bush and Asia: a Midterm Assessment

Asia Program Presents:

George W. Bush and Asia: A Midterm Assessment

December 11, 2002

Conference Agenda

8:30 Coffee and Registration

9:00 Welcoming Remarks

Robert M. Hathaway, director, Asia Program at the Wilson Center

9:10 - 10:15 THE ADMINISTRATION’S “ASIAVIEW”

James A. Kelly, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs

“U.S.-East Asia Policy: Three Aspects”

10:20 - 12:00 LOOKING FOR PATTERNS

Moderator: Xiaoyuan Liu, associate professor of history, Iowa State University,

and current Asian Policy Studies Fellow at the Wilson Center and George

Washington University

Catharin Dalpino, fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution

"The Bush Administration in Southeast Asia: Two Regions? Two Policies?"

Jonathan Pollack, director, Strategic Research Department, U.S. Naval War

College

"Learning by Doing: The Bush Administration in East Asia"

Harry Harding, dean, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington

University

“Asia in American Grand Strategy: the QDR and the National Security Strategy”

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

Luncheon Address: Kurt Campbell, director, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

“The Bush Administration and Asia: A Progress Report”

1:45 - 3:15 HOTSPOTS AND PROBLEM AREAS

Moderator: Katharine H.S. Moon, associate professor of political science,

Wellesley College, and current Asian Policy Studies Fellow at the Wilson Center

and George Washington University

Hilton Root, senior fellow, Economic Strategy Institute

“The Bush Administration’s Financial Policy in Asia”

Nayan Chanda, director of publications, Yale Center for the Study of

Globalization, Yale University

“Southeast Asia after September 11"

Frank S. Jannuzi, professional staff member, Senate Foreign Relations

Committee

“North Korea: Back to the Brink?”

3:30 - 5:00 THE PAST AS PROLOGUE?

Moderator: Ming Wan, associate professor of public and international affairs, George Mason University and current Asian Policy Studies Fellow at the Wilson Center and George Washington University

Janne Nolan, Georgetown University

"Policy towards Northeast Asia in the Bush Administration"

Andrew Bacevich, professor of international relations, Boston University

“Bush in Asia: Continuity or Change”

Henry Nau, professor of political science, George Washington University

“Security Community or Alliances in Asia: Which Way is Bush Heading?”