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Understanding the US "pivot" to Asia
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Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Time: Door open 7:00 p.m / Talk start 7:30 p.m.
Venue:Temple University, Japan Campus, Mita Hall 5F
(access: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html)
Speakers:
Jason Wheelock, Council on Foreign Relations - Hitachi International Affairs Fellow in Japan, Visiting Fellow, National Institute for Defense Studies Robert Dujarric, Director, Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies Admission:Free (Open to general public)
Language: English
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Overview

Rising tensions between China and many of its neighbors, including Japan, as well as the continuing crises over North Korea, have focused US attention on
East Asia. There has been much talk about a "pivot"
back to Asia by the
United States. Jason Wheelock and Robert Dujarric will discuss the nature and challenges of such as re-focus on Asia.

Speakers

Jason Wheelock is a Council on Foreign Relations - Hitachi International Affairs Fellow in Japan and a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo. He has over 10 years of experience conducting analysis of defense programs as an analyst at the U.S.
Congressional Budget
Office. Those efforts have included analysis of proposals to reorganize and increase the size of United States' ground forces and studies on the cost of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. While in Japan, he is studying the budgetary and security implications of the proposed realignment of forces in the region, with a particular focus on the strategy and posture of the United States Marine Corps. He holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Master's of Public Policy from the College of William and Mary and has received training in defense procurement acquisition from the Defense Acquisition University of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Robert Dujarric is Director, Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan Campus. He moved to Tokyo in 2004 as a Council on Foreign Relations - Hitachi Fellow. He is a graduate of Harvard College and holds an MBA from Yale University (www.tuj.ac.jp/icas/staff.html and publications http://www.tuj.ac.jp/icas/presentations.html).

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Robert Dujarric
Director
Kyle Cleveland
Associate Director
Eriko Kawaguchi
Coordinator

Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies
Temple University, Japan Campus
http://www.tuj.ac.jp/icas/