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Program 2010

   THE JOHN A. MAXWELL SCHOLAR-DIPLOMAT PROGRAM

         The U.S., China, and India: New roles for a New Century

  Participants:

Program Coordinators:

WEDNESDAY, April 7

THURSDAY, April 8

  • 9:00-10:00 am  
    • Meeting: The Brookings Institution
      • Speaker: Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Director, John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, The Bookings Institution
      • U.S.-China Relations: Looking Ahead
  • 10:30-11:30 am
    • Meeting: School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University
      • Speaker: Walter Andersen, Acting Director, South Asia Studies Program, and Senior Adjunct Professor, South Asia Studies, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
      • Topic: India: Pursuing a More Activist Foreign Policy
  • 11:45 a.m.-1:30 pm   
    • LUNCHEON: The City Club
      • Speaker: Ruan Zongze, Minister Counselor, Political Affairs, Embassy of the People's Republic of China
      • Topic: Sino-U.S. Relations: Reflections from a Chinese Diplomat
  • 2:00-3:00 pm   
    • Meeting: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
      • Speaker: Robert Hathaway, Director, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
      • Topic: The Rise of China and India: Farewell to 'the American Century?'
  • 3:30-4:30 pm   
    • Meeting: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
      • Speaker: Deepti Choubey, Deputy Director, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
      • Topic: Prospects for Obama's Nuclear Agenda

 FRIDAY, April 9

Adjourn

GUIDE TO SPEAKERS

Walter Andersen
Acting Director, South Asia Studies Program, and Senior Adjunct Professor, South Asia Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Andersen recently retired as Chief of the State Department’s South Asia Division in the Office of Analysis for the Near East and South Asia. He assumed his duties as Associate Director of the South Asia Studies program in July of 2003. Before the launch of the new program, he taught several courses on South Asia at SAIS. In addition to holding several key positions within the State Department, including special assistant to the ambassador at the Embassy in New Delhi, he has taught at the University of Chicago and the College of Wooster. Dr. Andersen has published numerous articles on South Asia including “It’s Democracy’s Turn” in The Indian Express (2008) and “India Fights the Clock on Nuclear Deal” in India Abroad (2007). Dr. Andersen is a graduate of University of Chicago (Ph.D.) and Concordia College (B.S.).

Deepti Choubey
Deputy Director, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Choubey is responsible for establishing strategic priorities for the Nuclear Policy Program, conducting research and generating policy analysis, and leading the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. Particularly, areas of interest for her research include the calculations of non–nuclear-weapon states, U.S. nonproliferation and disarmament policies, U.S. nuclear security spending, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the U.S.–India civilian nuclear cooperation deal, and the comprehensive test ban treaty. She has provided commentary for CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio, BBC, and CBS Radio, and has written for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and U.S. News and World Report, among others. Prior to joining the Carnegie Endowment in 2006, Choubey was director of the Peace and Security Initiative (PSI) for the Ploughshares Fund and with Ambassador Nancy Soderberg in the New York office of the International Crisis Group. Ms. Choubey has her masters of International Affairs from Columbia University.

Steven Clemons
Senior Fellow and Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Steven Clemons directs the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, which aims to promote a new American internationalism that combines a tough-minded realism about America's interests in the world with a pragmatic idealism about the kind of world order best suited to America's democratic way of life. He is also a Senior Fellow at New America, and previously served as Executive Vice President. Publisher of the popular political blog The Washington Note, Mr. Clemons is a long-term policy practitioner and entrepreneur in Washington, D.C. He has served as Executive Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute, Senior Policy Advisor on Economic and International Affairs to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and was the first Executive Director of the Nixon Center. Prior to moving to Washington, Mr. Clemons served for seven years as Executive Director of the Japan America Society of Southern California, and co-founded with Chalmers Johnson the Japan Policy Research Institute.

Evan N. Dawley
Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
Evan Dawley is a Historian with the Special Projects Division in the Office of the Historian of the U.S. Department of State. He has worked on projects on relations between the United States and China, and the United States and Japan, as well as a range of policy background and lessons learned studies. He received his Ph.D. in East Asian History from Harvard University in 2006, with a primary focus on the history of Taiwan. His recent and forthcoming publications address the formation of Taiwanese identity and Japanese colonialism in Taiwan.

Bonnie S. Glaser
Senior Fellow, Freeman Chair in China Studies and Senior Associate, Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic & International Studies
At CSIS, Bonnie Glaser works on issues related to Chinese foreign and security policy. She is concomitantly a senior associate with CSIS Pacific Forum and a consultant for the U.S. government on East Asia. From 2003 to mid-2008, Ms. Glaser was a senior associate in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State. Ms. Glaser has written extensively on Chinese threat perceptions and views of the strategic environment, China’s foreign policy, Sino-U.S. relations, U.S.-China military ties, cross-strait relations, Chinese assessments of the Korean peninsula, and Chinese perspectives on missile defense and multilateral security in Asia. Her writings have been published in the Washington Quarterly, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, International Security, Problems of Communism, Contemporary Southeast Asia, American Foreign Policy Interests, Far Eastern Economic Review, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, New York Times, and International Herald Tribune, as well as various edited volumes on Asian security. Ms. Glaser received her M.A. with concentrations in international economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Robert Hathaway
Director, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Robert M. Hathaway has been director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars since 1999. Prior to that, he served for twelve years on the professional staff of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he specialized in American foreign policy toward Asia. Dr. Hathaway has also been a member of the Central Intelligence Agency History Staff, and has taught at George Washington University and at Barnard, Middlebury, and Wilson Colleges. He holds a Ph.D. in American Diplomatic History from the University of North Carolina. Dr. Hathaway’s latest book, Powering Pakistan: Meeting Pakistan’s Energy Needs in the 21st Century (co-edited), appeared in 2009. He has authored three other books as well as numerous articles on U.S. foreign policy since 1933. Recent co-edited reports include Running on Empty: Pakistan's Water Crisis (Wilson Center, 2009); Hard Sell: Attaining Pakistani Competitiveness in Global Trade (Wilson Center, 2008); and George W. Bush and East Asia: A First Term Assessment (Wilson Center, 2005). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a director of the Congressional Study Group on Japan.

David M. Lampton
Dean of Faculty; George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies; Director of the China Studies Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Before joining the faculty at the The Paul H. Nitze School Advanced International Studies, Dr. Lampton had been the president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations in New York City from 1988 to 1997 and Founding Director of China Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (1983-1985) and at The Nixon Center (1998-2006). He also taught political science at Ohio State University from 1974 to 1987. A prolific writer, he has authored many books including: The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds (2008); Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000 (2001); The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Age of Reform, 1978-2000 (ed.)(2001). Dr. Lampton received his higher education degrees including his Ph.D. from Stanford University. The working title of his current project is China: Going Global and Chinese Leaders of the Reform Era.

Kenneth G. Lieberthal
Director, John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution
Prior to joining The Brookings Institution, Dr. Lieberthal was the William Davidson Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science, Distinguished Fellow and Director for China at the William Davidson Institute, and Faculty Associate of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan from 1983-2009. He has authored fifteen books and monographs and over seventy articles, mostly dealing with China. He also served as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asia on the National Security Council from August 1998 to October 2000. His government responsibilities encompassed U.S. policy toward Northeast, East and Southeast Asia. He currently writes regular commentary for the UP Front Blog. Dr. Lieberthal has his higher education degrees from Columbia University (Ph.D.) and Datmouth College (B.A.).

Ambassador Teresita C. Schaffer
Director, South Asia Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Teresita Schaffer’s expertise includes U.S.–South Asia relations, regional security, and economics, energy, and health policy in India. During her 30-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service, she specialized in international economics and South Asia, on which she was one of the State Department’s principal experts. From 1989 to 1992, she served as deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, at that time the senior South Asia position in the department; from 1992 to 1995, she was U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka; and from 1995 to 1997, she served as director of the Foreign Service Institute. Her earlier posts included Tel Aviv, Islamabad, New Delhi, and Dhaka, as well as a tour as director of the Office of International Trade in the State Department. Most recently, Schaffer authored India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership (CSIS, 2009), which examined the strategic ties between the two countries and proposed new policies with global implications. She is currently writing a book on Pakistani negotiating styles that draws from her own experiences as a Foreign Service Officer, as well as from historical evidence. Schaffer speaks French, Swedish, German, Italian, Hebrew, Hindi, and Urdu, and has studied Bangla and Sinhala.

Ambassador Meera Shankar
Embassy of India, Washington, D.C.
Ms. Meera Shankar was born on October 9,1950. She joined the Indian Foreign Service in July 1973. She has held several important assignments during her career: she served as Director in the Prime Minister’s Office from 1985 to 1991; was posted to Washington, D.C. and served as Minister (Commerce) from 1991 to 1995. Thereafter, she headed the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in New Delhi overseeing India's cultural diplomacy. Subsequently, in the Ministry of External Affairs, she headed two important divisions dealing with the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and relations with Nepal and Bhutan. After promotion to the rank of Additional Secretary in 2002, she held the responsibility for the United Nations and International Security. Her last assignment was as Ambassador of India to Germany from December 1, 2005 to April 6, 2009. Ms Meera Shankar arrived in Washington, D.C. on April, 26, 2009. She is married and has a daughter.

Ruan Zongze
Minister Counselor, Political Affairs, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Ruan Zongze has been Minister Counselor for Policy Analysis at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States since July 2007. He was previous Vice President and Senior Fellow at China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) and, prior to that, Director of the Depepartment of International and Strategic Studies at CIIS. From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Ruan served as Second and First Secretary at the Chinese Embassy in the UK. From 1992 to 1993, he was also a Visiting Scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in the UK. Dr. Ruan received a Ph.D. in International Relations from China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. His areas of research include American foreign policy, Sino-U.S. relations and international security. He is the author of The Rise of China and the Transition of East Asia Order: Shaping and Expanding the Shared Interests (Beijing, 2007).







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