On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), I
invite you to participate in the last session of the Winter/Spring 2015 CFR
Academic Conference Call series on Thursday, April 23, from 9:00 AM to 10:00
AM in WY226. Sheila A. Smith, CFR's senior fellow for Japan studies, will
discuss Japan's primary policy concerns as it navigates its relationship with
an advancing China.
Dr. Smith is the author of "Intimate Rivals: Japanese
Domestic Politics and a Rising China," which was published by Columbia
University Press in February 2015. She is also the author of the CFR report
"Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance" (July 2014). Dr.
Smith is a regular contributor to the CFR blog "Asia Unbound" and to
major media outlets in the United States and Asia. She teaches as an adjunct
professor at Georgetown University's Asian Studies Department, serves on the
board of the "Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs," and is vice chair
of the U.S. advisors to the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational
Exchange. Dr. Smith joined CFR from the East-West Center in 2007, where she
directed a multinational research team in a cross-national study of the
domestic politics of the U.S. military presence in Japan, South Korea, and the
Philippines.
As background for the discussion, you may wish to review the
following materials:
1) Sheila A. Smith, "Chapter 1: Contending with China," Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China,
Columbia University Press, February 2015.
2) Sheila A. Smith, "Japan-China Relations: Three Things to Know," Video, CFR.org, November 18, 2014.
3) Sheila A. Smith, "Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance," Report, Council on Foreign Relations Press, July
2014.
4) "Japan," Asia Unbound, Blog, Council on Foreign
Relations.
Please RSVP to me at sweinberger@pugetsound.edu if
you're interested in attending.
See you there...
Seth Weinberger
Associate Professor
Department of Politics & Government
University of Puget Sound
