Symposium: “Origins of Prosperity and Stability: State Building in 20th Century Asia”

Date: 

Friday, October 12, 2018, 2:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Welcome 
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
 
Director-General, Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)
 
Keynote Speech
"The History of Asia in the 20th Century: The Origins of Prosperity and Stability”
President, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
 
Discussant: Thomas Berger
Professor of International Relations and Director, Center for the Study of Asia (2018-21), Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
 
Panel: “State Building in 20th Century Asia”
Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
 
“A Silent Revolution: State Building and Democratization in Modern Taiwan”
Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica
 
“Nation-building in Singapore: The Authoritarian Structure of a ‘Vulnerable City-State’”
Professor, Graduate School of Social System Studies, the University of Kitakyushu
 
“Building and Integrating the Indonesian State”
Associate Professor, Kyushu University
 
Discussant: Dwight Perkins
Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University
 
Moderator: Susan Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
 
Speakers' papers can be requested in advance by emailing usjapan.wcfia@gmail.com.
 
Co-sponsored by the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA); Harvard University Asia Center; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.