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  • Title

    The 21st CSIS/NIKKEI Symposium
    'Shaping the Future: New Leadership in Japan, U.S. and Next Indo-Pacific Order'

  • Date & Time

    November 15(Fri), 2024, 9:30-13:00(JST, Tentative)

    Venue

    Tokyo
    (Participants will be notified later.)

  • Organized by

    The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
    Nikkei Inc.

  • In Cooperation with

    Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER)

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    Free of charge
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PROGRAM

(as of September 20, 2024)

*Honorifics and titles omitted, names in no particular order.

**English and Japanese interpretations will be available.

***Agenda, speakers and themes are subject to change.

9:30 - 9:40

Opening Remarks

John Hamre

President and CEO, CSIS

9:45 - 10:45

[Session I] : Armitage-Nye Dialogue

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International

Joseph S. Nye, Jr

University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University

Facilitator

Christopher B. Johnstone

Japan Chair, CSIS, Managing Principal, The Asia Group

10:50 - 11:50

[Session II] : Sino-U.S. Cooperation and Competition After U.S. Elections

Rush Doshi

Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and Director of the China Strategy Initiative, CFR

Bonny Lin

Director, China Power Project and Senior Fellow, Asian Security, CSIS

Takahara Akio

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tokyo Woman's Christian University

Sahashi Ryo (Leading Commentator)

Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo

12:00 - 13:00

[Session III] : Great Power Competitions and Future of the Indo-Pacific.

Michael J. Green

CEO, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney

Ashok Malik

Partner and Chair of India Practice, The Asia Group

Daniel Russel

Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute, Asia Society

Kitaoka Shinichi

Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo
Special Advisor to the President (former President), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Moderator

Akita Hiroyuki

Commentator, Nikkei

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John J.Hamre

President and CEO, CSIS

John Hamre was elected president and CEO of CSIS in January 2000. Before joining CSIS, he served as the 26th U.S. deputy secretary of defense. Prior to holding that post, he was the under secretary of defense (comptroller) from 1993 to 1997. As comptroller, Dr. Hamre was the principal assistant to the secretary of defense for the preparation, presentation, and execution of the defense budget and management improvement programs. In 2007, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appointed Dr. Hamre to serve as chairman of the Defense Policy Board, and he served in that capacity for four secretaries of defense.

Before serving in the Department of Defense, Dr. Hamre worked for 10 years as a professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. During that time, he was primarily responsible for the oversight and evaluation of procurement, research, and development programs, defense budget issues, and relations with the Senate Appropriations Committee. From 1978 to 1984, Dr. Hamre served in the Congressional Budget Office, where he became its deputy assistant director for national security and international affairs. In that position, he oversaw analysis and other support for committees in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Dr. Hamre received his Ph.D., with distinction, in 1978 from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., where his studies focused on international politics and economics and U.S. foreign policy. In 1972, he received his B.A., with high distinction, from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, emphasizing political science and economics. The following year he studied as a Rockefeller fellow at the Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr

University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense

Joseph S. Nye Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, and earned a PhD in political science from Harvard. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology. His most recent books include The Power to Lead; The Future of Power; Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era; and Is the American Century Over. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, he was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy, and in 2011, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers.

Richard L. Armitage

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International

Ambassador Armitage is a founding partner of Armitage International, L.C. and serves as the firm’s president. He is a former deputy secretary of the Department of State and has served as the assistant secretary for international security affairs and deputy assistant secretary for East Asia and Pacific affairs at the Department of Defense. In addition, Ambassador Armitage has held a wide variety of high-ranking U.S. diplomatic positions; including, Presidential Special Negotiator for the Philippines Military Bases Agreement, Special Mediator for Water in the Middle East, Special Emissary to King Hussein of Jordan during the 1991 Gulf War, and Ambassador directing U.S. assistance to the new independent states of the former Soviet Union.

Ambassador Armitage is the recipient of numerous U.S. military decorations, as well as military decorations from the governments of Thailand, Republic of Korea, Bahrain, and Pakistan. He is a recipient of the Department of State Distinguished Service Award, the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service (four times), the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Award for Outstanding Public Service, and the Presidential Citizens Medal, awarded by President H.W. Bush to citizens who have performed exemplary deeds of service. He has received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from the Government of Japan and was awarded a KBE from Her Majesty the Queen of England and became a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Ambassador Armitage also has been appointed as an Honorary Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit and as an Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia. The President of Romania conferred upon Ambassador Armitage Romania’s highest civil order, The Order of the Star of Romania, with the rank of Commander. Most recently, he received an honorary doctorate from Keio University in Japan.

Ambassador Armitage currently serves on the board of directors of ManTech International Corporation. He also is a member of The American Academy of Diplomacy.

Ambassador Armitage graduated in 1967 from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. He served on a destroyer stationed on the Vietnam gunline and subsequently completed three combat tours with the riverine/advisory forces in Vietnam. Fluent in Vietnamese, Ambassador Armitage left active duty in 1973 and joined the U.S. Defense Attaché Office in Saigon. Immediately prior to the fall of Saigon, he organized and led the removal of Vietnamese naval assets and personnel from the country. For his service to the nation, Ambassador Armitage received the Distinguished Graduate Award from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2013.

Bonny Lin

Bonny Lin

Director, China Power Project and Senior Fellow, Asian Security, CSIS

Rush Doshi

Rush Doshi

Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and Director of the China Strategy Initiative, CFR

Ryo Sahashi

Sahashi Ryo

Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo

Michael J. Green

Michael J. Green

CEO, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney

Previously Dr Green was senior vice president for Asia, Japan Chair, and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and director of Asian Studies and Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He served on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) from 2001 through 2005, first as director for Asian affairs with responsibility for Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, and then as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asia, with responsibility for East Asia and South Asia. Before joining the NSC staff, he was a senior fellow for East Asian security at the Council on Foreign Relations, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center and the Foreign Policy Institute and assistant professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and senior adviser on Asia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He also worked in Japan on the staff of a member of the National Diet.

Dr Green is also non-resident senior advisor and Kissinger Chair with CSIS and a distinguished scholar at the Asia Pacific Institute in Tokyo. He serves as a trustee at the Asia Foundation and senior adviser at the Asia Group. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group, the Radio Free Asia Board, the Center for a New American Security Advisory Board, and the editorial boards of the Washington Quarterly and the Journal of Unification Studies in Korea.

Dr Green has authored numerous books and articles on East Asian security, including most recently, By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 (Columbia University Press, 2017) and Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō (Columbia University Press, 2022). He received his master’s and doctoral degrees from SAIS and did additional graduate and postgraduate research at Tokyo University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor’s degree in history from Kenyon College with highest honours. He holds a black belt in Iaido (sword) and has won international prizes on the great highland bagpipe.

Ashok Malik

Ashok Malik

Partner and Chair of India Practice, The Asia Group

Shinichi Kitaoka

Shinichi Kitaoka

Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo

Dr. Shinichi Kitaoka is Special Advisor to the President (former President) of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and Emeritus Professor of University of Tokyo and Rikkyo University. He studied at the University of Tokyo (Ph.D. 1976); taught at Rikkyo University (1976-97) and his alma mater (1997-2004, 2006-2012); and served as Ambassador to the United Nations (2004-2006). Most recently, he was President of the International University of Japan (IUJ) (2012-2015). Kitaoka has been on the advisory panels for many foreign ministers and prime ministers of Japan. He had been the Acting Chair of the Advisory Panel on the History of the 20th Century and on Japan’s Role and the World Order in the 21st Century (Feb. 2012 - Aug. 2015), the Advisory Panel on the Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for National Security (Feb. 2013 - May 2015), the Chair of the Advisory Panel on Long-Term Strategy under the Paris Agreement as Growth Strategy (Jul. 2018 – Apr. 2019), the Acting Chair of The Advisory Panel on National Security and Defense Capabilities (August 2018 - Dec. 2018). Kitaoka has published many books on Japan's military, diplomacy, party politics, and intellectuals. He received the Imperial Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2011.

Hiroyuki Akita

Hiroyuki Akita

Commentator, Nikkei Inc.

Hiroyuki Akita is a Commentator of Nikkei. He regularly writes commentaries and columns, analysis mainly on foreign & international security affairs. He joined Nikkei in 1987 and worked at Political News Dept.(98-2002) where he covered Japanese foreign & security policies, domestic politics. He was Senior & Editorial Staff Writer (2009-17) , and he also worked at "Leader Writing Team" of the Financial Times in London (Oct-Dec, 17).

He was Beijing Correspondent (94-98) and Washington Chief Correspondent (2002-06). In Beijing, he reported major news events such as death of Deng Xiaoping, Hong Kong handover to China. In Washington DC, he covered White House & Pentagon, State Department during Bush administration.

He graduated from Jiyu Gakuen College in 1987 and Boston University (M.A.). From 2006 to 07, he was an associate of US-Japan Program at Harvard University, where he conducted a research on US-China-Japan relations. In March 2019, he won the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist Award, a prize for outstanding reporting of international affairs. He is an author of two books in Japanese: "Anryu (Power Game of US-China-Japan)"(2008), "Ranryu (Strategic Competition of US-Japan and China)"(2016).

Hiroyuki Akita

Daniel Russel

Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute, Asia Society