Academic Symposium at the Association for Asian Studies Conference
For more than two decades, the Korea Economic Institute (KEI) has been partnering with American universities throughout the country to hold the KEI Academic Symposium. The symposium annually draws together leading scholars on Korea to discuss cutting edge issues on the peninsula.
Since 2012, KEI has shifted course by working in collaboration with the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) to hold the symposium as a part of the annual AAS conference. At AAS, KEI will organize up to four panels on issues related to Korea and Northeast Asia. As with prior Academic Symposia, KEI will commission papers from various scholars and analysts on particular topics that fall under those broad themes. These papers will continue to be published as part of the Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies series. KEI is working with Princeton University Professor Gilbert Rozman, former chair of the AAS program committee, to organize the panels for the AAS conference and edit the papers to produce the annual academic symposium volume. KEI is preparing its efforts for the 2013 AAS conference, whichh will be held in San Diego, California.
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Below are details of the various panels that KEI organized for the 2012 AAS conference held in Toronto, Canada:
Sociological Processes and Regional Community Formation Incorporating South Korea
South Korean National Identity Gaps with China and Japan
Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University
Lacking Trust between Nations: South Korea’s Security Relations with Japan and China
Leif-Eric Easley, Ewha University
Inter-group Conflicts in Beijing’s Koreatown
Sharon Yoon, Princeton University
Moderator: Jaeeun Kim, Princeton University
- Friday, March 16, 2012
8:30AM – 10:30AM
Security Challenges and the Changing Balance on the Korean Peninsula
The View from China
Andrew Scobell, RAND Corporation
The View from Russia
Stephen Blank, U.S. Army War College
Japanese Security Strategy and the Korean Peninsula
Michishita Narushige,National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
The View from South Korea
Taeho Kim, Hallym University
Moderator: Abraham Kim, Vice President, KEI
- Friday, March 16, 2012
1:00PM – 3:00PM
TPP or ASEAN+3: Alternative Plans for Asian Regionalism and Free Trade Pacts
TPP and the U.S. Approach to Asia-Pacific Trade
Edward Lincoln, George Washington University
South Korea: Which Way Will It Go on Asian Integration?
Hyung-Gon Jeong, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP)
Asian and Trans-Pacific Tracks of Economic Integration in the Asia Pacific
Peter Petri, Brandeis University
Moderator: Troy Stangarone, Senior Director for Congressional Affairs and Trade, KEI
- Saturday, March 17, 2012
2:15PM – 4:15PM
Political Change in 2010-12 and Regional Cooperation Centered on the Korean Peninsula
South Korean Politics and China
Jae Ho Chung, Seoul National University
North Korean Politics and China
Jack Pritchard, President, KEI and Gordon Flake,Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
Chinese Politics and the Korean Peninsula
See-won Byun, George Washington University
Moderator: Nicholas Hamisevicz, Director of Research and Academic Affairs, KEI
During this transition year of 2011, KEI will still host an Academic Symposium; however, this will be a special edition featuring talented graduate students in the Korea and Asia fields of study. KEI will bring to Washington, DC ten qualified graduate students to present their papers and have a discussion with policy community regarding their paper. These graduate student papers will be published in a special edition of the Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies volume. Papers from prior editions of the Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies volume can be found below.
Available online:
Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2012
Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2011 (Emerging Voices)
Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2011
Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2010
Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2009
Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2008
