Origins of Prosperity and Stability: State Building in 20th Century Asia

Cambridge, MA, USA

(Co-host by JIIA and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University)

Date: Friday, October 12, 2018, 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street

[Welcome]
Susan J. Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Yasunori Nakayama
Director-General(Acting), Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)

[Keynote Speech]
"The History of Asia in the 20th Century: The Origins of Prosperity and Stability"
Akihiko Tanaka
President, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

Discussant: Thomas Berger
Professor of International Relations and Director, Center for the Study of Asia (2018-21), Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

[Panel: "State Building in 20th Century Asia"]
Shin Kawashima
Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

"A Silent Revolution: State Building and Democratization in Modern Taiwan"
Lung-chih Chang
Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica

"Nation-building in Singapore: The Authoritarian Structure of a 'Vulnerable City-State'"
Keiko Tsuji Tamura
Professor, Graduate School of Social System Studies, the University of Kitakyushu

"Building and Integrating the Indonesian State"
Nobuhiro Aizawa
Associate Professor, Kyushu University

Discussant: Dwight Perkins
Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University

Moderator: Susan Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

(Co-sponsored by the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA); Harvard University Asia Center; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.)