The Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Tokyo will be hosting the conference "Democracy and Diplomacy in East Asia" on Sep 16. The meeting will gather scholars from the U.S.,Korea, China and Japan to discuss (a) what kind of foreign economic and security policy is characteristic of democracies and (b) under what conditions are electorally appealing foreign policies likely to materialize?

Date: September 16, 9 am~
Venue: Kojima Hall (next to Akamon), University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus
Language: English
No advance registration is required.

THE PROGRAM
8:50-9:00 Opening Remarks
Yasuhiro Matsuda (University of Tokyo)
9:00-10:10 The International Context in East Asian Democracies Nobuhiro Hiwatari (University of Tokyo) "PartisanGovernments and Foreign Policy"
Atsushi Tago (Kobe University) "Alliance Commitment to East Asian Countries and US Party Politics"
Discussants Keisuke Iida (University of Tokyo)

10:20-11:50 Foreign Policy of Korea
Hee Min Kim (Seoul National University) "A New Approach to the Maritime Dispute Involving a Former Colonizer-Colony Pair: The Case of the Dokdo-Takeshima Dispute between Japan and Korea"
Young-Geon Kim (Korea University) "Partisan Turnover of the Korean Presidency and the North Korea Policy"
Min Gyo Koo (Seoul National University) "Partisanship and South Korean Foreign Economic Policy"
Discussants Kan Kimura (Kobe University)

12:50-14:00 Foreign Policy of Taiwan
Emerson Niou (Duke University) "The China Factor in Taiwanese Politics"
Yasuhiro Matsuda (University of Tokyo) "Taiwan's Partisan Politics and its Impact on the US-Taiwanese Relations"
Discussants Gregory W. Noble (University of Tokyo)

14:10-15:40 Foreign Policy of Japan
Jun Saito (Yale University) "Politics of U.S. Bases in
Okinawa:
Electoral Politics and Diplomacy"
Hiroyuki Hoshiro (University of Tokyo) "Building an 'East Asian Community' in Vain: Japan's Power Shift and Regionalism in the New Millennium"
Ming Wan (George Mason University) "Japan's Party Politics and its China Policy: The Chinese Fishing Boat Collision Incident"
Discussants Atsushi Ishida (University of Tokyo)

For more information, please visit our website; http://www.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/democracy/index.html
or contact Natsu Matsuda (Ms)
natsu.matsuda@gmail.com