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The world today faces multiple crises across the globe. From open conflicts in Europe and the Middle East to heightened tensions in the Indo-Pacific, the existing international order faces unprecedented challenges to its peace and stability. How should we think through these multi-faceted challenges?
Please join Yuki Tatsumi, Co-Director of East Asia and Director of Japan Program, as she engages in conversation with some of the leading U.S. and Japanese thinkers on these regional issues.
Featured Speakers
Kunihiko Miyake, President, Foreign Policy Institute
Professor Kuni MIYAKE is currently Special Adviser to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. He concurrently serves as President of the Foreign Policy Institute, Research Director for Foreign and National Security Affairs at the Canon Institute for Global Studies, and as Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan University. He has nearly 30 years of distinguished service with Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from which he retired in 2005.
David Shear, Senior Fellow, Reischauer Center at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
David Shear is a Senior Fellow at the Reischauer Center at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He performed the duties of Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from June 2016 to January 2017. He was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs. He served for 32 years in US Foreign Service, most recently as the U.S Ambassador to Vietnam.
Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow, Project Lead of Middle East Perspectives, Stimson Center
Prior to joining Stimson, she founded and directed the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council and led a bi-partisan task force on Iran. The author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US and the Twisted Path to Confrontation (2007), she is a regular commentator on US foreign policy and Iran on NPR, PBS and C-Span.
Moderator
Yuki Tatsumi, Co-Director, East Asia Program, Stimson Center
Before joining Stimson, Tatsumi worked as a research associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and as the special assistant for political affairs at the Embassy of Japan in Washington. Tatsumi’s most recent publications include Balancing Between Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament: Views from the Next Generation (ed.; Stimson Center, 2018) Lost in Translation? U.S. Defense Innovation and Northeast Asia (Stimson Center, 2017).