This event is open to the public and will be followed by a catered reception. To register, please scan the QR code below or visit our Ticketleap page here<\/a>. The panels will be livestreamed via Zoom here. To view online, please click here: https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/87476542658<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Professor Yasuyo Sakata\u00a0<\/strong>is professor of international relations at the Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS) in Japan. She specializes in Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia\/Indo-Pacific security, with a focus on the U.S.-ROK alliance and U.S.-ROK-Japan security cooperation. She is a research fellow at the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS, Tokyo). She was a member of the RIPS Security Studies Program\u00a0 (1992-94), research fellow at the Institute of Modern Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University (2008-09) and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University (2014). She has participated in various seminars and projects such as those at the Japan Ministry of Defense (MOD), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA), the Tokyo Foundation, Japan-Korea Forum,\u00a0 Pacific Forum CSIS, Council on Foreign Relations, RAND, the Stimson Center and the National Security Archives (Washington, D.C.). She is also a member of the MOD Central Deliberative Council on Defense Facilities, NHK World Deliberative Committee. She received her B.A. and M.A. in political science from Keio University.<\/p>\n Dr. Alex Soohoon LEE<\/strong>\u00a0is an associate research fellow at Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA). Prior to his current position at KIDA, Dr. Lee was a Global Korean Studies (GKS) research professor at the Division of International Studies, Korea University. His research interests have been focused primarily on the issues of international security, ROK-US alliance, the US foreign and security policy, and ROK-US-Japan trilateral security cooperation. Dr. Lee recently authored and co-authored \u201cThe Taiwan Strait and the ROK-U.S. Alliance,\u201d (The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, 2023), Biden Administration\u2019s Indo-Pacific Security and Defense Policy (KIDA Press, 2022), \u201cSecurity and Defence Policy\u201d in The Oxford Handbook of South Korean Politics (Oxford University Press, 2022) and \u201cSouth Korea and the 2016 US Presidential Elections: A Security-Trade Nexus Redefined?\u201d in American Presidential Elections in a Comparative Perspective: The World is Watching (Lexington Books, 2019). Dr. Lee holds a B.A. in International Relations and Asian Studies from Lehigh University, received a Global M.B.A. from Business School and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) of Korea University.<\/p>\n Dr. Jeffrey Hornung<\/strong>\u00a0is Japan lead of the National Security Research Divison and senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He specializes in Japanese security and foreign policies, East Asian security issues,\u00a0and U.S. foreign and defense policies in the Indo-Pacific region, including its alliances. Prior to joining RAND in April 2017, Hornung was the fellow for the Security and Foreign Affairs Program at Sasakawa USA from 2015 until 2017. From 2010 until 2015, Hornung worked as an associate professor for the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, a Department of Defense education facility in Honolulu, Hawaii.\u00a0Hornung has written extensively about Japanese security and foreign policy issues and\u00a0broader\u00a0Northeast Asia security issues\u00a0for numerous media, policy, and academic outlets. This includes\u00a0Washington Quarterly,\u00a0Asian Survey,\u00a0Foreign Policy,\u00a0New York Times,\u00a0Washington Post,\u00a0War on the Rocks\u00a0and many others, including the two major Japanese dailies\u00a0Yomiuri Shimbun\u00a0and\u00a0Asahi Shimbun. Hornung received his Ph.D. in political science from The George Washington University, where he wrote his thesis on Japanese decisionmaking to send the Self-Defense Forces to Iraq in\u00a0the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 Iraq War. During 2005\u20132006, Hornung was also a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo where he conducted his doctoral research as a Fulbright Fellow. He also holds an M.A. in international relations with a concentration in Japan Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).<\/p>\n Dr. Clint\u00a0Work<\/strong>\u00a0is a Fellow and Director of Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI). In addition to his work on KEI\u2019s publications and publication-related programs,\u00a0Clint\u00a0leads KEI\u2019s University Outreach and conducts research, writing, and public engagement focused on US-Korea relations. Before joining KEI,\u00a0Clint\u00a0served as a Fellow in the Henry L. Stimson Center\u2019s 38 North Program from 2020-2022, where he focused on issues related to the US-ROK alliance transformation, led Congressional engagement about peace and security on the Korean Peninsula, and organized and moderated a military working group centered on North Korea\u2019s evolving \u201ccheckerboard\u201d threat. He also worked with a broad range of universities and state and local organizations throughout the country to foster public engagement on US-Korea relations. Prior to joining Stimson, Dr. Work was an assistant professor at the University of Utah\u2019s Asia Campus in South Korea and the regular foreign policy writer for The Diplomat Magazine\u2019s Koreas page. He holds a Doctorate in International Studies from the University of Washington and a Master\u2019s in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and his work focuses on the Korean Peninsula, US-Korean relations, East Asia, and US foreign policy. He is currently writing on the history and evolution of the US force presence on the Korean Peninsula and the US-ROK alliance transformation in the post-Cold War era. In addition to his academic publications, he has written extensively for popular media, including the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Diplomat Magazine, The National Interest, War on the Rocks, 38 North, and Sino-NK. He regularly provides commentary to U.S. and foreign media outlets, such as The Economist, Time Magazine, NPR, and Arirang News.<\/p>\n Dr. Jessica C. Liao<\/strong>\u00a0is an associate professor of political science at NC State University and 2020-2021 Wilson China Fellow. She spent the past two and a half years in Beijing and throughout 2022, served as an economic development specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing where she covered China\u2019s relations with Belt and Road Initiative countries.\u00a0Prior to NC\u00a0State, she taught at George Washington University and was a visit fellow at Monash University, Kuala Lumpur campus. She received her PhD in international relations from the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on Chinese foreign policy and East Asian politics.<\/p>\n Troy Stangarone<\/strong>\u00a0is Senior Director and Fellow at the Korea Economic Institute (KEI). He oversees KEI\u2019s trade and economic related initiatives, as well as the Institute\u2019s relations with Capitol Hill and the Washington, DC trade community. As part of his broader portfolio he serves as the editor for KEI\u2019s flagship publication, Korea\u2019s Economy, and oversees KEI\u2019s blog, The Peninsula. Mr. Stangarone has written extensively and has been widely quoted on U.S.-Korea relations, South Korean trade and foreign policy, and North Korea. His work has appeared in publications such as Foreign Policy, CNBC, CNN, the South China Morning Post, East Asia Forum, China-US Focus, the JoongAng Ilbo, and the Korea Herald. His comments have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, CNN, Politico, Chosun Ilbo, Donga Ilbo, JoongAng Daily, and Yonhap News Service. He has also appeared on TV and radio for outlets such as Bloomberg News, CNBC Asia, and BBC Radio. In addition to his work at KEI, Mr. Stangarone is a member of the International Council of Korean Studies Board and the Korea-America Student Conference\u2019s National Advisory Committee. He is a columnist for the Korea Times and a regular contributor to The Diplomat. He was also a 2012-2013 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in South Korea, sponsored by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Prior to joining KEI, Mr. Stangarone worked on Capitol Hill for Senator Robert Torricelli on issues relating to foreign affairs and trade. He also served as an aide to Governor James McGreevey of New Jersey. He holds a MSc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Memphis.<\/p>\n Clara Gillispie<\/strong>\u00a0is an Advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). She also serves as the official U.S. delegate to the Energy Research Institute Network, an East Asia Summit-linked network whose inputs are designed to inform the formal East Asia Summit process. Ms. Gillispie\u2019s subject-matter expertise covers topics ranging from technology policymaking to energy security to technology policymaking to geopolitical trends in the Asia-Pacific. She is the author of numerous policy essays and reports, including \u201cSouth Korea\u2019s 5G Ambitions\u201d (2020), \u201cU.S.-Australia Energy Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific\u201d (2020), and \u201cHow Asia\u2019s Auto Boom Shapes Its Energy Security Strategies\u201d (co-authored with Laura Schwartz, 2019). Ms. Gillispie is regularly called on to directly brief her research and analysis to U.S. and Asian government officials, senior industry representatives, and the media, including the\u00a0New York Times, Washington Post, and NPR\u2019s\u00a0Marketplace. Her current research at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy focuses on the country\u2019s efforts to combat online misinformation about public health. Previously, Ms. Gillispie served as a Senior Director for Trade, Economic, and Energy Affairs at NBR. She was also a 2021 Visiting International Fellow at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, a 2020 International Visiting Fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, a 2019-20 Council on Foreign Relations\u2019 International Affairs Fellow at Carnegie India, and a 2017\u201318 SAFE Energy Security Fellow. Earlier, Ms. Gillispie worked for the U.S. House Committee on Science, Technology, and Space; Detica Federal Inc. (now a part of BAE Systems); and the American Chamber of Commerce in China. Ms. Gillispie graduated from the London School of Economics and Peking University with a dual MSc in International Affairs. Prior to her graduate studies, she received a BS from Georgetown University and attended Sophia University in Tokyo for language training.<\/p>\n Dr. Marie Anchordoguy<\/strong>\u00a0is a professor in the Jackson School of International Studies and specializes in the political economy of Japan. She currently holds the George Long Endowed Professorship. She received her undergraduate, masters and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is focused primarily on the key institutions and policies of Japan\u2019s capitalist system. Her first book was\u00a0Computers, Inc.: Japan\u2019s Challenge to IBM\u00a0(Harvard University Press, 1989), which looked at Japan\u2019s state and corporate efforts to build a computer hardware industry. Her next book,\u00a0Reprogramming Japan: The High Tech Crisis Under Communitarian Capitalism\u00a0(Cornell University Press, 2005) analyzed why Japan was slow to change its capitalist institutions even when there were clear economic reasons to do so. This book was also published in Japanese in 2011 as \u201cNihon Keizai no Sai-Sekkei: Kyodotai Shihon Shugi to Haiteku sangyo no mirai.\u201d Anchordoguy is currently researching the political economy of entrepreneurship, venture capital, and high-tech start-ups in Japan. She has published a number of chapters in books and articles in journals such as\u00a0Business History Review,\u00a0Research Policy,\u00a0International Organization, and\u00a0The Political Science Quarterly. She has held fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Harvard University, the Japan Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the Center for Global Partnership. She has been Chair of the UW Japan Studies Program from 2000-2007, 2012-2014, and 2021-present. She was co-editor of\u00a0The Journal of Japanese Studies\u00a0from 2004 to 2015. Anchordoguy teaches an introductory course on contemporary Japan, and graduate and undergraduate courses on Japanese business and technology, Japan\u2019s political economy, and several comparative courses, such as Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China, and Asian Financial Systems. She has served on various boards and committees, such as the Blakemore Foundation, the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, the Japan Policy Research Institute, the National Bureau of Asian Research\u2019s US-Japan Discussion Forum, and the Social Science Research Council\u2019s Abe Fellowship Program. She has been a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University and Rikkyo University, and a Research Fellow at Japan\u2019s National Institute of Science and Technology Policy in its Science and Technology Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the historic Trilateral Leaders\u2019 Summit at Camp David in August of 2023, US President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida released a set of joint statements committing to reenergize existing trilateral mechanisms and establish new and more robust forms of trilateral cooperation across a range of areas<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2024\/02\/KEI-CKS-Panels-QR-150x150.png\")
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