Nuclear Proliferation in Asia
November 18, 2004
The Committee on Asian Security presented its inaugural symposium on the subject of “Nuclear Proliferation in Asia” on November 18, 2004 on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington. Audio files of the program and information about the speakers are available below. All files are in Real Player format.
The Committee on Asian Security is jointly sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center and the India Studies Program. We extend special thanks to the following offices at Indiana University-Bloomington for their critical support of this project: The Office of the Vice President for Research, The Office of International Programs, The Center for the Study of Global Change, and The College of Arts and Sciences.
Click here for a synposis of each presentation from the symposium.
Welcome: Sumit Ganguly and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Opening remarks: Bill Finan, Editor, Current History
Bill Finan is the editor of Current History, the oldest U.S. publication devoted exclusively to world affairs.
(14:21 min)
Panel I: Roots of the Problem
Moderator: Patrick O’Meara, Dean of International Programs, Indiana University
Patrick O'Meara was appointed Dean for International Programs in 1993. He is also Professor of Political Science and Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He has published extensively on the subject of the African continent. His first book, Rhodesia: Racial Conflict or Co-existence? was published by Cornell University Press in 1975. Subsequent books include: Southern Africa in Crisis (1977) with Gwendolen M. Carter; a major assessment of African Independence: First Twenty-Five Years (1985), also with Gwendolen M. Carter; International Politics in Southern Africa (1982), and a textbook, Africa, edited with Phyllis M. Martin, which appeared in 3rd Edition in 1995 and which is used by nearly 100 universities and colleges throughout the United States. Two new books have been published recently: Globalization and the Challenges of a New Century in 2000 and Changing Perspectives on International Education in 2001.
Professor O’Meara has been called upon frequently for interviews on southern Africa and South Africa by United States national television programs such as the MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour, the Voice of America, and National Public Radio. He has also testified before the House Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Congress on African Affairs and the House Committee on Post-secondary Education. Dr. O’Meara was project director for “Living Africa: A Village Experience,” a film on life in a Sengalese village which was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and which was a finalist in the New York Film festival. He has published lead articles as well as country studies for the Americana Encyclopedia and has also published numerous articles in journals and newspapers. Professor O’Meara appears in Who’s Who in America as well as in Men of Achievement and Community Leaders in America.
Korea: Mike Robinson, Professor of East Asian Languages and Culture, Indiana University
Michael Robinson is a Professor of East Asian Languages and Culture and an Adjunct Professor of History at Indiana University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1979. Robinson’s research focuses on modern Korea in the early to mid-20th century. In 1994, he served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Foundation in Seoul. He was a Fulbright Fellow in Korea in 1987. His publications include Colonial Modernity in Korea (Cambridge: East Asia Council Publications, 1999), co-edited with Gi-Wook Shin; Korea Old and New: A History (Cambridge: Korea Institute, 1990) written with Carter Eckert, Young-ick Lew, Edward Wagner, Ki-Baek Lee; and Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988).
(23:53 min.)
India/Pakistan: Sumit Ganguly, Director, India Studies Program, Indiana University
Sumit Ganguly holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University in Bloomington. He has previously been on the faculty of James Madison College of Michigan State University, Hunter College of the City University of New York and the University of Texas at Austin. He has also taught at Columbia University in New York City. He has been a Fellow and a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. His research and writing focused on South Asia have been supported by grants from the Asia Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the W. Alton Jones Foundation. Professor Ganguly is the author, editor or co-editor of some ten books on South Asia. His next book (with Devin Hagerty), Fearful Symmetry: India and Pakistan Under the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons, will be jointly published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi and the University of Washington Press, Seattle in 2004.
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Commentator: Nick Cullather, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University
Nick Cullather is a historian of U.S. foreign relations. He is the author of Illusions of Influence (1994), a history of U.S.-Philippines relations, Secret History (1999), a study of a CIA covert operations in Guatemala, and co-author of Making A Nation (2002), a history of the United States. He has been a staff historian for the Central Intelligence Agency and an adviser to Congressman Lee H. Hamilton.
(11:59 min.)
China Commentator: Michael R. Chambers
Michael Chambers is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana State University. Dr. Chambers did his undergraduate work at Williams College and later went on to Columbia University in New York City, receiving his Ph.D. in 2000. Dr. Chambers is a specialist in International Relations and Comparative Politics who concentrates on Asian affairs. He has conducted field research in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Bangkok which has resulted in book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers. His research agenda emphasizes regional security issues in Asia.
(12:44 min.)
Q&A
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Panel II: Looking Forward
Moderator: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Director, East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is the Director of Indiana University’s East Asian Studies Center, as well as a Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures. A specialist in the study of modern and contemporary China who has done work on topics ranging from student protest and human rights to the urban change and the cultural dimensions of globalization, he has published widely in both purely academic venues and general interest periodicals, including Newsweek International, the Nation, the World Policy Journal, and the Times Literary Supplement (TLS). His most recent book is an edited volume, Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches, which was published last year by Routledge.
Korea: Jacques Fuqua, Associate Director, East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University
Jacques Fuqua is a retired US Army Foreign Area Officer, LTC (R) (Lieutenant Colonel, Retired) with a Northeast Asia specialization and presently serves as the East Asian Studies Center’s Associate Director and lecturer on East Asian security issues in the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture. As Associate Director, he is responsible for new program development in the area of East Asian studies and issues and for the Center’s outreach efforts in the Midwest area for K-12, university, community government constituencies. He frequently lectures on US-Japan and Korean peninsula security issues in the tri-state area of Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. He created and teaches Indiana University’s only East Asian security course, which covers both contemporary and historical relationships between the countries of East Asia, US involvement in the region, and scenarios for future engagement. Areas of research focus include: 1) Japan’s regional and international security policies; 2) North Korea’s WMD program, as a peninsula/regional threat and as a tool of diplomacy; and 3) reactions of local citizenry to US security policy in the region. Fuqua has also authored articles on North Korea’s WMD program for various newspapers and journals, both regional and international. In his last assignment as an active duty officer, Fuqua directed government relations activities for US Forces Japan. Prior to this assignment, he served as a liaison officer to a four-star US-based headquarters (US Army Training and Doctrine Command or TRADOC), functioning as the single interface with the Japanese Army Headquarters.
Fuqua received his undergraduate education at Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio (B.S., 1979). He continued his graduate studies at Indiana University in East Asian studies (M.A., 1992). He also attended the Defense Language Institute to study Japanese (1988-89) and the Foreign Service Institute in Yokohama, Japan (1989-1990) and graduated from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Command and General Staff College (1993). He is the recipient of numerous awards, including: Defense Meritorious Service Medal, US Army Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal.
(25:30 min.)
India/Pakistan: Dinshaw Mistry, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Cincinnati
Dinhaw Mistry is assistant professor of Political Science and director of Asian Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois, an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a B.S. in Physics and Political Science from the University of the South. He has held fellowships at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation. Dr. Mistry is author of Containing Missile Proliferation: Strategic Technology, Security Regimes, and International Cooperation in Arms Control ( University of Washington Press, 2003). Other publications include “The Test Ban Treaty and India’s Nuclear Breakout” (Security Studies, Summer 2003); “Beyond the MTCR” (International Security, Spring 2003); “Technological Containment” (Security Studies, Spring 2002); “The Geostrategic Implications of India’s Space Program” (Asian Survey, November/December 2001); “Diplomacy, Sanctions, and the U.S. Nonproliferation Dialogue with India and Pakistan” (Asian Survey, September/October 1999); and “The Technology, Economics and Politics of Missile Defense” (Northwestern Journal of International Affairs, Winter 1999). He has also written letters and op-eds in The New York Times, Washington Post, San Diego Union Tribune, and USA Today.
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China: Yu Bin, Associate Professor of Political Science, Wittenberg University
Yu Bin is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department of Wittenberg University and director of the East Asian Studies program at Wittenberg. Dr. Yu earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University (1991) and MA from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1982). He is also Advisor/Senior Research Associate for the Shanghai Institute of American Studies; faculty associate of the Mershon Center at Ohio State University (1991-current); visiting fellow at the Center for Asia/Pacific Research Center of Stanford University (1998); visiting fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii (1994-95); President of Association of Chinese Scholars of Political Science & International Studies (1992-94); MacArthur fellow at the Center for International Security & Arms Control of Stanford University (1985-89); research fellow at the China Center of International Studies, State Council, Beijing (1982-85), and served in the military in 1968-71.
Dr. Yu is the co-author and editor of several books including most recently Shunjian de Liliang: 9-11 Hou de Meiguo Yu Shijie [Power of the moment: America and the world after 9-11] ( Beijing: Xinhua Chubanshe, 2002) and Mao's Generals Remember Korea (The University Press of Kansas, 2001). He has published more than 50 articles in journals including World Politics, Strategic Review, Asian Survey, International Journal of Korean Studies, Harvard International Review, Asian Thought and Society, etc. As a senior research associate of the Pacific Forum, CSIS, Dr. Yu writes regularly for Comparative Connections ( www.csis.org/pacfor/ccejournal.html ) on Russo-China relations. He also frequently contributes to many English and Chinese language media outlets.
(17:35 min.)
Commentator: Peter Moody, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Peter R. Moody, Jr. was educated at Vanderbilt and Yale and is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He specializes in the study of Chinese politics and in the international relations of east Asia. His more recent books include Tradition and Modernization in China and Japan, Political Change in Taiwan, and Political Opposition in Post-Confucian Society. He is editor of China Documents Annual and book review editor for the Review of Politics. He has written on Chinese politics, Asian international affairs, Chinese political thought, international relations theory, and theory of political parties.
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Concluding remarks: Peter Scoblic, Executive Editor, The New Republic
J. Peter Scoblic is the executive editor of The New Republic, which he first joined as managing editor in June 2003. Previously, he was a fellow at the New America Foundation, and before that he served as the editor of Arms Control Today, a magazine covering efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. He is an honors graduate of Brown University, where he served as editor-in-chief of The Brown Journal of World Affairs.
Acknowledgements: Sumit Ganguly and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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