Young Whan Kihl
Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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ykihl@iastate.edu
2009-10 Visiting Scholar
Professor Kihl taught courses on International Relations, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Behavior, and Comparative Foreign Policy at Iowa State University, 1974-2006, and served as Chair at the Department of Political Science, Juniata College, 1963-1974. He was editor-in-chief of The International Jounal of Korean Studies, 2004-2008, and was on the editorial advisory board of The International Studies Quarterly, 1998-2004.
Prof. Kihl received a BA in Political Science and Economics from Grinnell College and a Ph.D. in International Politics and Organizations, Comparative Politics (Asia), and Political Behavior from New York University.
Better Governance by Remote Control? How Foreign Donors Steer ASEAN
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Few realize that foreign donors currently disburse funds of at least $ 50 million annually on behalf of the integration of the ASEAN region. This amount is more than the triple the size of ASEAN’s official annual budget of $ 14 million. Goals of this foreign support include speeding the establishment of a customs unit, strengthening regional intellectual-property regimes, and empowering civil society to further ASEAN’s plan to create a fully integrated regional community by 2015. The “ASEAN-US Technical Assistance and Training Facility” alone has a budget of US$ 20 million for the period 2008-2012.
Few also realize the extent to which ASEAN’s far-reaching dependence on donor support—financial help and expert advice—has diminished the organization’s ownership of the regional integration process. In this lecture, Prof. Dosch will argue that foreign donors have begun to steer Southeast Asian regionalism.
What motivations and assumptions inform the support of Southeast Asian integration by foreign donors? Do they cooperate—or compete—in pursuit of this goal? Do the projects they favor reflect one-size-fits-all formulas that neglect the extreme political and economic diversity of Southeast Asia? The talk will address these and other rarely asked questions that challenge the conventional image of ASEAN as a model of successful external diplomacy for regional development.
Jörn Dosch is Chair in Asia Pacific Studies and Director of the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Leeds, UK. He was previously a Fulbright Scholar at Shorenstein APARC and an assistant professor at the University of Mainz, Germany. Dosch has published some 70 books and academic papers on East and Southeast Asian politics and international relations Recent titles include The Changing Dynamics of Southeast Asian Politics (2007) and “ASEAN's Reluctant Liberal Turn and the Thorny Road to Democracy Promotion,” The Pacific Review (December 2008). He has also worked as a consultant for UNDP, the German Foreign Office, and the European Commission. Recently he evaluated the European Union's cooperation programs with ASEAN and several of its member states. His 1996 PhD in political science is from the University of Mainz.
Daniel and Nancy Okimoto Conference Room
Jörn Dosch
Professor of Asia Pacific Studies
Speaker
University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Malaysia at the Crossroads: Race-based Politics, the Emergence of a Multiracial Alternative and the Road Ahead
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Although its people are mainly Muslim, Malaysia is notably diverse. Many communities of faith live together in relative harmony. Yet ethnic tensions and decades of authoritarian rule have undermined national unity and a sense of shared purpose. Since the watershed election of 2008, a revived political opposition and an active civil society have increasingly challenged the divisive politics of race and religion in Malaysia. But severe obstacles still thwart full democratization and genuine pluralism.
In his talk, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad will analyze the complexities of Malaysia’s race-based political system, the prospects of the country’s multiracial opposition, and what these dynamics imply for the future of democracy in Malaysia.
Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad was elected to the Selangor State Assembly in Malaysia in March 2008 as a candidate of the opposition People’s Justice Party (Partai Keadilan Rakyat). His roles in Keadilan include membership in the party’s National Youth Executive Committee. In 2006-08 he served as private secretary to Keadilan’s de facto leader at the time, Anwar Ibrahim.
Nik Nazmi is a columnist at the Malaysian Insider and the founder of SuaraAnum.com, a web magazine for young Malaysians. He has been widely published in, and interviewed by, Malaysian and international media. He read law and earned his LLB (Honors) from King's College, University of London. While in London he joined British Muslims in protesting the occupation of Palestine and the war in Iraq. His undergraduate work was done at the UEM Foundation College in Selangor, where he was elected president of the Student Council. His secondary education was at the Malay College of Kuala Kangsar, which has been called “the Eton of the East.” During his student career, he was active in multiple extra-curricular settings, including Muslim and social-service organizations and English-language debating teams. He was born in Malaysia in 1982.
Daniel and Nancy Okimoto Conference Room
Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad
Selangor State Assemblyman and Political Secretary to the Chief Minister of Selangor, Malaysia
Speaker
Seminars
Energy, Environment, and Economic Growth in Asia
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This dialogue will bring together distinguished experts from Stanford and Silicon Valley, top specialists from around the region, and leaders in various fields such as business, politics, academia, and media. We will begin with an exploration of the influence of energy competition on international relations in Asia. After establishing the geopolitical context the group will explore new ideas on how to promote energy efficiency, clean technology, and the reduction of carbon emissions.
Experts will look closely at the Japanese experience in the development and dissemination of energy efficient and pollution-control technologies, critical elements of meeting growing demands for energy without causing greater harm to the environment. We will discuss how the United States, under the new Obama administration, may contribute more to the reduction of carbon emissions and the advance of alternative energy technologies. And we will analyze how the growing energy consumers in developing Asia can join a post-Kyoto Protocol that effectively mitigates the environmental impact of energy use and reduces the tensions arising from competition for energy resources.
Kyoto International Community House Event Hall
2-1 Torii-cho,Awataguchi,
Sakyo-ku Kyoto,606-8536
JAPAN
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Daiju Nakahashi
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Daiju Nakahashi is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC
for 2009-2010. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he has worked at Sumitomo
Corporation, one of the major trading and investment conglomerates in Japan for
fifteen years. He has been engaged in sales and marketing of IT-related products
and services as well as venture investments and new business developments in the
IT industry. In addition, he has experience to manage one of the affiliated companies
of Sumitomo Corporation as an executive vice president. He graduated from Keio
University with a degree in Commerce and Business."
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Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America and the Persecution of John S. Service
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John Stewart Service (3 August 1909 - 3 February 1999) was an American diplomat who served in the Foreign Service in China prior to and during World War II. Considered one of the State Department's "China Hands," he was an important member of the Dixie Mission to Yan'an. Service correctly predicted that the Communists would defeat the Nationalists in a civil war, but he and other diplomats were blamed for the "loss" of China in the domestic political turmoil following the 1949 Communist triumph in China. In the immediate postwar years, Service was indicted in the Amerasia Affair in 1945, of which a Grand Jury cleared him of wrongdoing. In 1950 U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy launched an attack against Service, which led to investigations of the reports Service wrote while stationed in China. Secretary of State Dean Acheson fired Service, but in 1957 the U.S. Supreme Court ordered his reinstatement in a unanimous decision.
Notable reviews:
"Sometimes a writer can use one person's story to illuminate an entire piece of history, and that is what Lynne Joiner does in her engrossing and readable book. . . . This is both a solid addition to scholarship of the Cold War era and the moving, very personal story of the life of one man: brilliant, flawed, long suffering, and honorable indeed."
-Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Joiner ably tells the tragic story of a good American laid low by the basest kind of character assassination masquerading as anti-Communism. All one can say is: 'Read this book and weep!"
-Orville Schell, Director of the Center for US-China Relations, Asia Society.
"Jack Service's experiences in wartime China and postwar America are an exciting tale with important resonances for current foreign policy challenges in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Iran as well as U.S.-China relations. I can't wait to see the movie."
-Susan L. Shirk, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (1997-2000); currently Director, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, U.C.-San Diego
‘This maelstrom of political intrigue, with Service at the center, is presented in well-documented and engaging detail. It is critical reading for anyone concerned with China policy and an instance of Congress and the FBI subverting justice."
-Richard H. Solomon, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Relations; currently President of the U.S. Institute of Peace
"Honorable Survivor is the gripping tale of one man's extraordinary life in wartime China and the Kafkaesque era of McCarthyism in America. Lynne Joiner does a masterful job of using new materials to illuminate how personal decisions, great historical forces, and the actions of vindictive and overzealous officials shaped developments in China, the United States, and U.S.-China relations in ways that have yet to be fully resolved."
-Thomas Fingar, former U.S. Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis; currently lecturer at Stanford University
"Jack Service did not lose China. On the contrary, he was a hero of the times. . . . This well-written and thoroughly researched book . . . helps us understand the machinations and failures of U.S.-China policy, on both the American and Chinese sides."
-Victor Hao Li, former President, East-West Center, Honolulu, and former Shelton Professor of International Law, Stanford Law School
Lynne Joiner is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist, news anchor, and documentary filmmaker. Her work has included assignments for CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, NPR, Christian Science Monitor Radio, Newsweek, and Los Angeles Times Magazine. She lives in San Francisco, California.
Philippines Conference Room
Lynne Joiner
Media Consultant
Speaker
Shanghi International TV Channel
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The Globalization of Cleantech: The Fifth Annual Globalization of Services Conference
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Silicon Valley is increasingly invested in clean technologies and is already looked upon as a global leader in new technological development. As happens with most new technologies in their infancy, Silicon Valley's focus is currently on component manufacturing. However, a difference from earlier technology cycles is the upfront impact of globalization, especially the emergence of China and India as providers of skilled labor and large markets. Accordingly, the globalization of cleantech could follow some well-trodden paths and some new ones:
- As manufacturing gets modularized, firms such as Applied Materials might shift component work to East Asia. Some of this is already happening.
- System integration and other service provision might increasingly be provided by the large Indian system integrators. As of 2009, however, there is little evidence of this happening.
- Firms in Europe and East Asia have been investing in cleantech for some time now, and might participate in technological leadership.
In each case, we are interested in exploring the time-frame and the driving forces. These will typically be outcomes of a mix of regulatory, domestic market and skills issues.
The conference, the fifth in the annual series on the Globalization of Services, will likely host about 20 academics and 40 corporates, as with past events.
Presentations are planned by firms in Silicon Valley in the fields of component manufacturing, systems integration and service provision; by overseas service providers on how outsourcing in these areas improves outcomes in terms of strategic direction, efficiency, cost-savings and accountability; by OEMs on supply-chain linkages with service outsourcers; and by venture capitalists and consultants on how their work helps the process of outsourcing cleantech services.
Registration is required for this event ($30 by Dec. 4, $45 late) and includes continental breakfast, lunch and free parking. Use the RSVP link at the top of the page to register.
Information on the previous Globalization of Services conference, including presentations, is available here.
| 8:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:30 | Welcome and Objectives Rafiq Dossani |
| 8:35-9:15 | Keynote: Fostering the Green Economy--The Case of California |
| 9:15-10:30 | Panel: Cleantech technology trends Marc Hoffman, Glacier Bay | Ajit Nazre, Kleiner Perkins | Swaminathan Venkataraman, Standard & Poor's Lead discussant: Professor Dimitris Assimakopoulos, Grenoble School of Management, France |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-12:30 | Panel: Software and services Chris Farinacci, Hara.com | Matt Denesuk, IBM | Sai Gundavelli, Solix Lead discussant: Professor Petri Rouvinen, ETLA Finland |
| 12:30-1:45 | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:30 | Panel: Manufacturing Charles Consorte, Zeptor | Chris D'Couto, Neah | Marc Hoffman, Glacier Bay Lead discussant: Professor Margot Gerritsen, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University |
| 3:30-3:50 | Break |
| 3:50-5:30 | Panel: Globalization Rafiq Dossani, Stanford | Joe Muscat, Ernst and Young | Bob Nelson, Akin Gump | Sean Wang, ITRI | Tomoya Yamashiki, Toray Industries (America) Inc. Lead discussant: Henry Rowen, Stanford University |
This conference is the 5th annual "Globalization of Services" conference, made possible through the generosity and efforts of ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, the University of Colorado, Denver and Wipro.
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