Wednesday, November 16, 2005
6:00-8:00PM
Room 532, Alumni Hall
University of Pittsburgh
(On Fifth Avenue in Oakland, facing the Cathedral of Learning)
North Korea today is the focus of some of the world’s most destabilizing rhetoric. What factors have created this daunting diplomatic challenge, and what policy choices exist to respond to it? Each of our symposium speakers brings a wealth of information to these questions. Please join us for presentations and open discussion.
Moderator: Evelyn Rawski, University Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, and Research Professor in the University Center for International Studies
Panelists:
Bruce Cumings, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History, The
University
of
Chicago
"Decoupled from History:
North Korea
in the 'Axis of Evil.'"
David C. Kang, Associate Professor of Government Dartmouth, and Research Director at the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth.
“Nuclear weapons vs. economic reforms: are we focused on the right issue?”
Chae-jin Lee, BankAmerica Professor of Pacific Basin Studies, Professor of Government, and Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont-McKenna College
“The Changing Relations between North Korea and South Korea”
Discussant: William W. Keller, Wesley W. Posvar Chair in the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and Director of the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
REGISTRATION: Please send Name, Affiliation, Mailing Address and E-mail Address to Katherine Carlitz, at kcarlitz@ucis.pitt.edu.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Please phone the Asian Studies Center at (412) 648-7371
Co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, and the School of Arts and Sciences
And Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh
