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The Indo-Pacific region currently presents unprecedented challenges to global security, including geopolitical rivalry, competition in emerging technologies, supply chain resiliency, and the formation of autocratic blocs. How can the United States build a multilateral framework for diplomacy and defense in Asia to ensure peace and stability in the decades to come?

Victor Cha will present his latest research on the G7 group of nations, exploring the role this institution of like-minded partners can play in supporting the rules-based international order, with a specific focus on Asia’s industrialized democracies.

This event is sponsored by the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy and will be moderated by Dan Mattingly, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

Cha is the President of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and holds the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is also a Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University. In 2021, he was appointed by the Biden administration to serve on the Defense Policy Board, advising the Secretary of Defense.

From 2004 to 2007, Cha served on the National Security Council (NSC), where he was responsible for Japan, Korea, Australia/New Zealand, and Pacific Island nations. He also served as the U.S. Deputy Head of Delegation at the Six Party Talks and received two Outstanding Service Commendations during his tenure at the NSC.

Cha is the author of eight books, including the award-winning Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (Stanford, 1999), which won the 2000 Ohira Book Prize. His other notable works include The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (Ecco, 2012), selected by Foreign Affairs as a “Best Book on the Asia-Pacific for 2012,” Powerplay: Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia (Princeton, 2018), Korea: A New History of South and North (Yale, 2023), and The Black Box: Methods and Data in the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea (Columbia University Press, 2024).

This event is open to the Yale community. Please register in advance.