Asan Plenum 2015

“Is the U.S. Back?” Date: April 28(Tue) – April 29(Wed), 2015 Place: The Grand Hyatt Seoul

Updated as of April 13, 2015

Day 1: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Time Panel Title Panelist Affiliation 08:30-09:30 Registration

Opening Welcoming Remarks Hahm Chaibong The Asan Institute for Policy Studies Ceremony Grand Opening Remarks Chung Mong Joon The Asan Institute for Policy Studies Ballroom II 09:30-10:10 Keynote Address Karen E. House Pepperdine University

10:10-10:15 Break M) Hahm Chaibong The Asan Institute for Policy Studies Plenary Joshua C. Ramo Kissinger Associates Is the U.S. Back? Session I James Steinberg Syracuse University Grand Ballroom II (English/Korean) Togo Kazuhiko Kyoto Sangyo University 10:15-11:30 China Institute for Innovation and Wu Jianmin Development Strategy 11:30-12:30 Lunch M) James Kim The Asan Institute for Policy Studies Philip Andrews-Speed National University of Geopolitics of Shale Grand Ballroom II Chen Weidong China National Offshore Oil Corporation (English/Korean) Edward Chow Center for Strategic and Int’l Studies Mikkal Herberg National Bureau of Asian Research M) Bark Taeho Seoul National University Kwon Goohoon Goldman Sachs Session 1 Geopolitics of Finance Benn Steil Council on Foreign Relations

Regency Room Taniguchi Tomohiko 12:30-13:45 Keio University (TBC)

M) Choi Kang The Asan Institute for Policy Studies Bruce Bennett RAND Corporation Revolution in Military U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs Michael Schiffer Relations Grand Ballroom III Xu Weidi National Defense University, PLA Yamaguchi Noboru International University of Japan

13:45-14:00 Break M) Lee Chung Min Yonsei University Plenary Edwin Feulner The Heritage Foundation Limits of U.S. Power? Session II Han Sung Joo Korea University Grand Ballroom II (English/Korean) 14:00-15:15 Guy Sorman Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Yao Yunzhu People’s Liberation Army 15:15-15:30 Break M) Nisid Hajari Bloomberg View Efraim Inbar Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Terrorism King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Joseph Kéchichian Grand Ballroom II Studies (English/Korean) Ellen Laipson Stimson Center Park Hyondo Myongji University M) David Sanger The New York Times Session 2 Van Jackson Center for a New American Security Cyberwar Park Nohyoung Korea University 15:30-16:45 Regency Room Ren Lin China Academy of Social Science Nils Melzer (TBC) Geneva Centre for Security Policy M) James Acton Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace Sven Jurschewsky Foreign Service Officer(ret.), Canada Nonproliferation Shin Chang Hoon The Asan Institute for Policy Studies Grand Ballroom III Richard Weitz Hudson Institute Yang Xiyu China Institute of International Studies 16:45-17:00 Break M) Philip Stephens Chung Jae-Ho Seoul National University Plenary G2 or G1? Session III U.S.-China Relations Jia Qingguo Peking University Grand Ballroom II Eric Li Chengwei Capital 17:00-18:15 (English/Korean) Douglas H. Paal Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace Evans Revere Albright Stonebridge Group

Day 2: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Time Panel Title Panelist Affiliation 08:00-09:30 Registration Special Keynote Address HRH Prince Turki Al King Faisal Center for Research and Session Grand Ballroom II Faisal Bin Abdulaziz Islamic Studies 09:30-10:30 (English/Korean) 10:30-10:45 Break M) Choi Kang The Asan Institute for Policy Studies Reordering Eom Gu Ho Hanyang University U.S.-Russia Relations Svitlana Kobzar RAND Europe Grand Ballroom II The Asan Forum (English/Korean) Gil Rozman National Research University Higher Dmitry Suslov School of Economics, Russia M) Jang Ji-Hyang The Asan Institute for Policy Studies Salam Fayyad Future for Palestine, Fmr. Prime Minister Reordering the Session 3 Karen E. House Pepperdine University Middle East Centre for Economic and Foreign Policy 10:45 – 12:00 Regency Room Sinan Ü lgen Studies, EDAM Kwon Hee-seog Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROK M) Simon Long The Economist Eric John Boeing Korea Reordering Kikuchi Tsutomu Aoyama Gakuin University East Asia Grand BallroomⅢ Charles Morrison East-West Center Sohn Yul Yonsei University Brandon Taylor (TBC) Australian National University Lunch and Book Launch: The Battle of Bretton Woods by Dr. Benn Steil 12:00 – 13:30 Moderated by Choi Byung-il, Ewha Womans University M) Martin Fackler The New York Times Never Been Worse? Alexis Dudden University of Connecticut Korea-Japan Relations Nishino Junya Keio University Grand Ballroom II (English/Korean) Park Cheol Hee Seoul National University Scott Snyder Council on Foreign Relations M) Jane Perlez The New York Times Chen Ping Global Times Session 4 Could Be Worse? China-Japan Relations Bonnie Glaser Center for Strategic and Int’l Studies 13:30-14:45 Regency Room Kato Yoichi The Asahi Shimbun Kim Heung-Kyu Ajou University M) Anna Fifield Never Been Better? Van Jackson Center for a New American Security Korea-U.S. Relations Kim Sunghan Korea University Ⅲ Grand Ballroom Sakata Yasuyo Kanda University of Int’l Studies Yang Xiyu China Institute of International Studies 14:45-15:00 Break

M) David Sanger The New York Times Chun Yungwoo The Asan Institute for Policy Studies Plenary Korean Peninsula: Session IV The End Game? Sven Jurschewsky Foreign Service Officer(ret.), Canada Grand Ballroom II Sydney Seiler U.S. Department of State 15:00-16:15 (English/Korean) Yamaguchi Noboru International University of Japan Zhang Tuosheng China Foundation for Int’l Strategic Studies 16:15-16:30 Closing Remarks

Observers: 1) Jonathan Chow, University of Macau 2) Li Tingting, Peking University 3) Liu Qun, People’s Liberation Army 4) Troy Stangarone, Korea Economic Institute