On October 13, Jackson students brought together leading experts and former officials to share their thoughts on key security trends and challenges facing East Asia with the Yale community.

Organized by four second-year Jackson MA students, Andrea Chen, Youngmin Jo, Tatsuro Imai, and Tang Zongzhong, the East Asia Security Forum was the Jackson institute’s first student-run conference focusing on security issues in the region. The students hope to contribute to expand the breadth of discussion at Jackson and start a tradition of student-initiated conferences on East Asia.

The forum was sponsored by the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and the Council on East Asian Studies.

Panels and speakers included:

Welcome Remarks

ROSEMARY DICARLO, President of National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs

Keynote SpeechU.S. role in East Asia

DANIEL RUSSEL, Senior Fellow and Diplomat in Residence, Asia Society Policy Institute

Panel One: Prospects of Negotiating a Peace Treaty with North Korea

EVANS REVERE, Senior Advisor, Albright Stonebridge Group

SCOTT SNYDER, Senior Fellow for Korea Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

LEON SIGAL, Director, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, Social Science Research Council

DANIEL RUSSEL, Senior Fellow and Diplomat in Residence, Asia Society Policy Institute

ROSEMARY DICARLO, President, National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs

Panel Two:  Revising the Japanese Constitution: Regional Implications 

TOMOHISA TAKEI, CNO’s Distinguished International Fellow, U.S. Naval War College

NICHOLAS SZECHENYI, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies

FRANCES ROSENBLUTH, Damon Wells Professor of Political Science, Yale University

DANIEL MATTINGLY, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University