Upcoming Events

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 | 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262)
CGIS Knafel Building 1737 Cambridge Street

World Regions in Turmoil: Globalization, Asia, and Europe

Kumiko Haba, Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; and Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of European International Politics, Aoyama Gakuin University

Professor Haba received her B.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations from Tsuda College. She is the author, editor, and translator of thirty-nine books on the European Union, NATO, and politics and history of Central Europe. Among her single-authored books are Kakudai yoroppa no chosen - amerika ni narabu tagenteki pawa- to naru ka [The Challenge of Enlarged Europe: Does It Become a Multilateral Big Power beside the USA?] (Chuo Koron, 2nd ed., 2006), Tougou yoroppa no minzoku mondai [Nationality Questions in the Integrated Europe] (Kodansha Gendai Shinsho, 7th ed., 2005), and Globalization to Oushu kakudai [Globalization and the Enlarged EU] (Ochanomizu Shobo, 2nd edition, 2004). Her recent co-edited books include The End of the Cold War and the Regional Integration in Europe and Asia (Aoyama Gakuin, 2010). While at Harvard, she is investigating the role of the U.S. in regional and trans-regional cooperation in Europe and Asia.

Karl Kaiser, Director, Program on Transatlantic Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA), and Adjuct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Professor Kaiser has taught at the Universities of Bonn, Johns Hopkins (Bologna), Saarbruecken, Cologne, the Hebrew University, and the Department of Government and Social Studies of Harvard. He was a Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Bonn/Berlin and an advisor to German Chancellors Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt. He was also a member of the German Council of Environmental Advisors. He serves on the Board of Foreign Policy, Internationale Politik, the Asian-Pacific Review, the Advisory Board of the American-Jewish Committee, Berlin, and the Board of the Federal Academy of Security Policy, Berlin. Professor Kaiser is the author or editor of several hundred articles and about fifty books in the fields of world affairs, German, French, British and U.S. foreign policy, transatlantic and East-West relations, nuclear proliferation, strategic theory, and international environmental policy. He is a recipient of the Atlantic Award of NATO.

Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; Program on Transatlantic Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA); and Modern Asia Series, Harvard University Asia Center

Lunch will be available for purchase in the CGIS Knafel Building, Fisher Family Commons.

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March 11 Earthquake & Tsunami in Japan

To view and listen to the recent symposium with Michael Sandel on April 22, 2011, "Japan Disaster Response and Future Assessments," please click here. To view and listen to the panel on March 23, 2011, "Crisis in Japan: The Way Forward," please click here. The Weatherhead Center's Program on U.S.-Japan Relations is a co-sponsor of "Harvard for Japan," organized by Harvard students to spread the awareness of Japan's recent earthquake and tsunami. To make donations to support Japan's recovery efforts, please see here. For more information on Harvard community's support for Japan, please see the message from President Drew Gilpin Faust, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies website, and the recent Gazette article.

About the Program

The Program was founded in 1980 based on the belief that the United States and Japan have become so interdependent that the problems they face require cooperation. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Program enables scholars and outstanding professionals from government, business, finance, journalism, NGOs, and other fields to come together at Harvard. Over the academic year, they conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with Harvard faculty and students, and with others from the greater Cambridge-Boston community. The Advanced Research Fellowship Program enables several outstanding postdoctoral fellows from such fields as anthropology, economics, history, political science, and sociology, to join the Program each year.

The Program's intellectual mandate includes a wide range of issues and problems in U.S.-Japan relations; contemporary Japanese culture, economy, politics, and society as viewed from a comparative perspective; common problems of advanced industrial democracies; international relations of Asia and Asian regionalism; the globalization of Japanese popular culture; the rise of civil society in Asia; and global governance of issues such as energy, environment, and public health.