A Discussion

Entrenched relationships are being redefined across the Pacific, with China now South Korea’s number one trading partner and destination for foreign investment and tourism. What are the implications of this regional sea change for politics and security in East Asia?

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Join us as Scott Snyder, author of China's Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security (Lynne Rienner, 2008), discusses the transformation of the Sino-South Korean relationship since the early 1990s with John Delury, director of the China Boom Project. Snyder considers the strategic significance of recent developments in China’s relationship with both North and South Korea and also assesses the likely consequences of those developments for U.S. and Japanese influence in the region. His meticulous study lends important context to critical debates regarding China’s foreign policy, Northeast Asian security, and international relations more broadly.

with

Scott Snyder
Author, China's Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security
Director, Center for Korea Policy at The Asia Foundation

Moderated by:

John Delury
Director, China Boom Project, Asia Society
Associate Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society

Co-sponsored by the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations



About the Speakers

Scott Snyder is director of the Center for Korea Policy at The Asia Foundation and a senior associate at Pacific Forum CSIS. He lived in Seoul, South Korea as Korea representative of The Asia Foundation during 2000-2004. Previously, he served as a program officer in the Research and Studies Program of the U.S. Institute of Peace, and as acting director of The Asia Society's Contemporary Affairs Program. His previous publications include Paved With Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea (2003), co-edited with L. Gordon Flake and Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior (1999). Snyder received his B.A. from Rice University and an M.A. from the Regional Studies East Asia Program at Harvard University. He was the recipient of a Pantech Visiting Fellowship at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center during 2005-2006, received an Abe Fellowship, administered by the Social Sciences Research Council, in 1998-99, and was a Thomas G. Watson Fellow at Yonsei University in South Korea in 1987-88.

John Delury is associate director of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and director of the China Boom Project. He previously taught Chinese history and politics at Brown University, having received a PhD in History at Yale. His article, “North Korea: 20 Years of Solitude,” appears in the current issue of World Policy Journal (Winter 2008/09). He has also written for Far Eastern Economic Review, Policy Review, Project Syndicate and Journal of Asian Studies.

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