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The Strategy for Korea's Economic Success

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Today, Korea is renowned for its remarkable economic growth and its globally-recognized companies that include Samsung, Hyundai and POSCO. Given that Korea was one of the world’s poorest countries a mere 50 years ago, many people call Korea’s rapid economic development “a miracle.” However, when Korea’s road to economic prosperity is analyzed, several key factors that led to this growth can be identified. Professor Moon will explain these fundamental factors and provide perspective on how Korea can sustain this growth going forward.

Hwy-Chang Moon is a visiting professor in the Korea Program for the 2015 academic year and is currently teaching a course on Korean economy and business through the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University. Moon is a professor at Seoul National University, where he also served as the Dean of Graduate School of International Studies. He has delivered special lectures at various institutions, and has consulted several multinational companies and governments (e.g., Malaysia, Dubai, Azerbaijan and the Guangdong Province of China).

Moon is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Business and Economy, and has published numerous articles and books on topics covering international business strategy, cross-cultural management and Economic Development in East Asia with a focus on South Korea.

Moon received a PhD from the University of Washington, and has previously taught at the University of Washington, University of the Pacific, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Helsinki School of Economics, Keio University, and Hitotsubashi University.

 
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Hwy-Chang Moon

Encina Hall E301616 Serra StreetStanford, CA 94305-6055
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Hwy-Chang Moon has joined the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for the 2015-2016 academic year. During his time at Shorenstein APARC, he will be working on a research project entitled, “The Global Strategy of Korean Firms in Silicon Valley," and will also teach a course on Korean economy and business in the fall quarter.

Moon is a professor of international business strategy at the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Seoul National University, where he also served as the dean of GSIS.

Professor Moon is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Business and Economy, and has published numerous articles and books on topics covering international business strategy, cross-cultural management and economic development in East Asia with a focus on South Korea. He frequently provides his perspectives on global economy and business through interviews and televised debates, and his writings appear regularly in South Korean newspapers. The New York Times and NHK World TV have also asked for his perspectives on these topics.

Professor Moon received a PhD from the University of Washington, and has previously taught at the University of Washington, University of the Pacific, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Helsinki School of Economics, Keio University, and Hitotsubashi University. He has also consulted several multinational companies, international organizations, and governments (e.g., Malaysia, Dubai, Azerbaijan, and the Guangdong Province of China).

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Perspectives on the U.S.-Korea Alliance

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In the wake of South Korean President Park Geun-hye's meeting with President Obama in Washington, D.C. on October 16, Mark Lippert, the American Ambassador to Korea, will offer his thoughts about U.S.-Korean relations and the challenges and opportunities the alliance may face in coming years.

Ambassador Lippert previously held senior positions in the Department of Defense from May 2012 until September 2014. This included Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, where he was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense on all international security strategy and policy issues related to the nations and international organizations of Asia and the Pacific. Prior to being confirmed in April 2012, he completed a two-year mobilization on active duty in the United States Navy. During that time, which included a deployment to Afghanistan, he served as an Intelligence Officer for the Naval Special Warfare Development Group in Virginia Beach, Virginia from 2009 to 2011.

Ambassador Lippert served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff for the National Security Council in 2009.  In 2008, he served as Deputy Director for Foreign Policy on the Obama-Biden Transition Team, and Senior Foreign Policy Advisor on the Obama for America campaign. Previously, he worked as the Foreign Policy Advisor for then-Senator Obama from 2005 to 2008, where he managed the Senator's work on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 2007 to 2008, he took a leave of absence from this position to deploy on active duty as an Intelligence Officer with Seal Team One in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. From 2000 to 2005, he was a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Appropriations Committee, State-Foreign Operations Subcommittee, advising Senator Patrick Leahy on a range of foreign aid and security assistance issues. From 1999 to 2000, he served as the Foreign and Defense Policy Advisor to Senator Tom Daschle and the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.

Ambassador Lippert’s military awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal for his service in Iraq, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and the Basic Parachutist Badge. He is also the recipient of the Department of Defense’s Distinguished Public Service Award and the Department of the Navy’s Distinguished Public Service Award.

Ambassador Lippert graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a B.A. in Political Science and holds an M.A. in International Policy Studies from the same institution. He also studied Mandarin Chinese at Beijing University.

 

Mark W. Lippert <i>U.S. Ambassador to Republic of Korea</i>
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What Explains ASEAN’s Centrality, and Will Disunity Derail ASEAN’s Success?

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For more than two decades the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has been at the center of multilateral arrangements for security in the Asia-Pacific. That keystone role has gained global support. In 2010 Secretary of State Clinton called ASEAN “the fulcrum of regional architecture”; in 2014 her successor said, “We must continue to support ASEAN’s centrality.” The governments of China, Japan, India, and Australia, among many others, have joined the chorus of support for ASEAN’s linchpin role. What explains ASEAN’s success?

Prof. Vuving’s answer is threefold: In the first place, ASEAN’s hard power weakness is a diplomatic strength, captured in the legitimacy of cooperative norms such as “open regionalism” and the “ASEAN Way.” Second, ASEAN’s location and character as an autonomous but inoffensive actor between Northeast and South Asia, between China and the United States, and between the Pacific and Indian Oceans allows it to play a “bridging” role between different geopolitical zones and potentially rival players.  Third, this bridging position has proven useful in managing changes in the relative power and status of major Asian-Pacific states. Prof. Vuving will also suggest that the unity of ASEAN’s own member states is less critical to ASEAN centrality than commonly thought.

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Alexander L. Vuving’s teaching, research, and consulting encompass topics such as Asian security, the rise of China, Chinese strategy, Vietnamese politics and foreign policy, Southeast Asia’s international relations, the South China Sea dispute, and the concept of soft power. He has published widely on these subjects and is a frequent media interviewee. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Asian Politics and Policy and Global Discourse. He received his PhD in political science from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany and has been a post-doctorate fellow and research associate at Harvard University.

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Alexander L. Vuving Professor, Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu
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Northeast Asia in Strategic Crisis: North and South Korean Responses

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su hoon lee
With China’s rise, the U.S.-centered postwar order in East Asia is in crisis.  Regional disputes about issues of history, territory, maritime control, airspace, military alliances, and nuclear weapons are intensifying as the U.S.-PRC strategic rivalry grows. How are North and South Korea responding to this historic development? South Korean scholar Lee Su-hoon, an international relations adviser to the late President Roh Moo-hyun, will compare and contrast the views and positions of the two Koreas sandwiched between the great powers. Lee received a PhD in comparative international development and sociology from Johns Hopkins University.

Su-hoon Lee Professor, Kyungnam University, Korea
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When Law Matters: the Everyday Life of the Indian Constitution

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This event is sponsored by the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and the Center for South Asia.

 

When the Indian Constitution was adopted in 1950, its egalitarian and inclusive spirit was widely seen as ahead of its time and out of sync with India’s many entrenched inequalities. Due to the efforts of its main author, the renowned Dalit leader B.R. Ambedkar, the Constitution contained multiple safeguards of cultural, religious and political rights as well as the most ambitious affirmative action program in the world. Over the following six decades, the Constitution shaped Indian society in numerous ways but its most profound impact was in framing public discourse and the way citizens and communities present their claims and demands in public. Despite deep and often violent social and political conflicts, the Constitution and many of its key provisions – religious tolerance, uplift of the historically disadvantaged, recognition of the rights of distinct communities, unity of the nation – are invoked and claimed by all sides in these conflicts. At the same time, the Supreme Court of India has emerged as an active and activist court that is widely respected as the guardian of the Constitution.

 

In this seminar, two distinguished speakers will highlight and analyze why and how the Indian Constitution acquired this key role in the nation’s life.

Professor Rajeev Bhargava is a renowned political theorist who has published seminal studies of Indian secularism and law, and the Director of the well known Center for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi. 

Dr. Rohit De is a legal scholar and Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. His forthcoming book is entitled Litigious Citizens, Constitutional Law and Everyday Life in the Indian Republic.

 

The two presentations will be followed by shorter commentaries from:

Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow at FSI and Director of CDDRL

Erik Jensen, Professor at the Stanford School of Law

Dr. Vivek Srinivasan, Program Manager for CDDRL's Program on Liberation Technology

 

Rajeev Bhargava Director, Center for the Study of Developing Societies Director, Center for the Study of Developing Societies
Rohit De Assistant Professor of History at Yale University Assistant Professor of History at Yale University
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The International Atomic Energy Agency and Nuclear Safeguards, 1953-1971

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Abstract: The nuclear negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran moved the International Atomic Energy Agency to the center of public attention. Based on multi-archival research and oral history interviews, this talk will look into the early history of the IAEA’s nuclear inspectorate. The foundations of today’s safeguards system were laid in the mid-1950s, when a group of twelve nations negotiated the Statute of the IAEA. In the mid-1960s, the Soviet Union abandoned its formerly critical stance on nuclear safeguards. Following the entry-into-force of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) comprehensive safeguards were introduced. The control of diversion was at the heart of the IAEA’s early safeguards system, while it neglected other aspects of the proliferation problem, such as the distribution of dual-use technology and related knowledge, or the development of clandestine nuclear programs. It was not lack of knowledge or imagination, but the complex technical, political, and legal background that was the reason for this limitation.

About the Speaker: Elisabeth Roehrlich is a senior researcher and project director at the University of Vienna’s Department of Contemporary History, and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. She received her PhD. in History from the University of Tuebingen, Germany, and held fellowships at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., and Monash South Africa. Her research focuses on the history of international relations and the evolution of the global nuclear order. She is the author of a prize-winning book about the former Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky (Kreisky’s Außenpolitik, Vienna University Press, 2009), and her work on the IAEA has been published or is forthcoming in journals such the IAEA Bulletin and the Journal of Cold War Studies. Roehrlich has been awarded funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and the Austrian Central Bank to support her research on the IAEA.

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Elisabeth Roehrlich Director IAEA History Research Project, University of Vienna
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Research in Progress (RIP): "Prevalence and Characteristics of Physicians Prone to Malpractice Claims"

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"Prevalence and Characteristics of Physicians Prone to Malpractice Claims"

 

Please note: All research in progress seminars are off-the-record. Any information about methodology and/or results is embargoed until publication.

 

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The distribution of malpractice claims across the physician workforce is not well understood.  If claim-prone physicians account for a substantial share of all claims, and it is feasible to reliably identify those physicians at an early stage, there are clear implications for efforts to improve the quality and safety of care.  Liability insurers and healthcare organizations could use the information to target interventions to address risks posed by claim-prone physicians.  Using data from the National Practitioner Data Bank, we analyzed malpractice claims paid against physicians between 2005 and 2014.  We calculated concentrations of claims among physicians.  We also sought to identify characteristics of physicians at high risk of “recurrent claims”.  We find that relatively few physicians account for a surprisingly large number of paid malpractice claims. Our findings also suggest that it may be feasible to predict who these physicians are before they accumulate troubling track records.

David Studdert

Encina Commons Room 225,
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Stanford, CA 94305-6006

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David M. Studdert is a leading expert in the fields of health law and empirical legal research. His scholarship explores how the legal system influences the health and well-being of populations. A prolific scholar, he has authored more than 150 articles and book chapters, and his work appears frequently in leading international medical, law, and health policy publications.

Professor Studdert joined Stanford Law School faculty on November 1, 2013, in a joint appointment as Professor of Health Policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Professor of Law.

Before joining the Stanford faculty, Professor Studdert was on the faculty at the University of Melbourne (2007-13) and the Harvard School of Public Health (2000-06). He has also worked as a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, a policy advisor to the Minister for Health in Australia, and a practicing attorney.

Professor Studdert has received the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award from AcademyHealth, the leading organization for health services and health policy research in the United States. He was awarded a Federation Fellowship (2006) and a Laureate Fellowship (2011) by the Australian Research Council. He holds a law degree from University of Melbourne and a doctoral degree in health policy and public health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Michelle Mello is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine.  She conducts empirical research into issues at the intersection of law, ethics, and health policy.  She is the author of more than 230 articles on medical liability, public health law, the public health response to COVID-19, pharmaceuticals and vaccines, biomedical research ethics and governance, health information privacy, and other topics.
 
The recipient of a number of awards for her research, Dr. Mello was elected to the National Academy of Medicine at the age of 40.  From 2000 to 2014, she was a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she directed the School’s Program in Law and Public Health.
 
Dr. Mello teaches courses in torts, public health law, and health policy.  She holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.Phil. from Oxford University, where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. from Stanford University. 

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Taiwan’s Evolving Position on the South China Sea—and Why It Matters

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Taiwan’s claims in the South China Sea are often regarded as virtually indistinguishable from China’s. On paper, Taiwan and China appear to be making substantially the same claims and the controversial U-shaped dashed line may be found on ROC and PRC maps alike. Neither government has officially clarified the dashed line’s meaning or assigned its coordinates.

Dr Kuok, however, argues that Taiwan has in the past year taken small but significant steps toward clarifying its claims. It has also adopted a more conciliatory approach best illustrated by President Ma’s official launch of a South China Sea Peace Initiative in May 2015. These moves imply possible daylight between Taiwan and China regarding the South China Sea. Dr. Kuok will examine these developments, as well as the costs, benefits, and chances of widening or narrowing that daylight in the larger context of Taipei-Beijing relations, domestic considerations including the January 2016 election in Taiwan, and the responses of other actors in the region.

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Lynn Kuok’s latest publication is Tides of Change: Taiwan’s Evolving Position in the South China Sea (2015). She was recently a senior visiting fellow at the Centre for International Law (Singapore), and has held fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Her research interests include ethnic and religious relations and nationalism in Southeast Asia and the politics and security of the Asia-Pacific region. She has served as editor-in-chief of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs and the Singapore Law Review. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (PhD), the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (MALD), and the National University of Singapore (LLB).

Lynn Kuok Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
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DBJ Initiatives for Japan's Growth Strategy

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Toru Hashimoto was a member of the Board of Directors and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Development Bank of Japan Inc. (DBJ) from June 2011 to June 2015. He is currently Senior Advisor of the DBJ. Previously, Mr. Hashimoto was Chairman of Deutsche Securities Inc., an investment banking subsidiary in Japan of Deutsche Bank, from July 2003 to September 2008 after serving as Senior Advisor from January 2003 to June 2003. Prior to joining Deutsche Securities, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fuji Bank, Limited (currently the Mizuho Financial Group) from June 1996 to March 2002. Earlier, he was President and Chief Executive Officer from 1991 to 1996. He began his career at the bank in 1957. Mr. Hashimoto served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Councilors of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations from 1997 to 2001 and Chairman of the Japanese Bankers Association from 1995 to 1996. He was also Vice Chairman of the Institute of International Finance, Inc. from 1997 to 1999. Mr. Hashimoto received a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Tokyo in 1957. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Graduate School of Economics of the University of Kansas from 1959 to 1960.

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Philippines Conference RoomEncina Hall, 3rd Floor616 Serra StreetStanford, CA 94305
Toru Hashimoto, Former President and CEO, Development Bank of Japan Inc.
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Book Event: Ballots, Bullets, and Bargains: American Foreign Policy and Presidential Elections

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Drawing on twenty-four years of experience in government, Michael H. Armacost explores how the contours of the U.S. presidential election system influence the content and conduct of American foreign policy. He examines how the nomination battle impels candidates to express deference to the foreign policy DNA of their party and may force an incumbent to make wholesale policy adjustments to fend off an intra-party challenge for the nomination. He describes the way reelection campaigns can prod a chief executive to fix long-neglected problems, kick intractable policy dilemmas down the road, settle for modest course corrections, or scapegoat others for policies gone awry.


Armacost begins his book with the quest for the presidential nomination and then moves through the general election campaign, the ten-week transition period between Election Day and Inauguration Day, and the early months of a new administration. He notes that campaigns rarely illuminate the tough foreign policy choices that the leader of the nation must make, and he offers rare insight into the challenge of aligning the roles of an outgoing incumbent (who performs official duties despite ebbing power) and the incoming successor (who has no official role but possesses a fresh political mandate). He pays particular attention to the pressure for new presidents to act boldly abroad in the early months of his tenure, even before a national security team is in place, decision-making procedures are set, or policy priorities are firmly established. He concludes with an appraisal of the virtues and liabilities of the system, including suggestions for modestly adjusting some of its features while preserving its distinct character.

Books will be available to purchase at the event. Published by Columbia University Press.

David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D., Yale University, 1968, American Studies, M.A., Yale University, 1964, American Studies and B.A., Stanford University, 1963, History. Reflecting his interdisciplinary training in American Studies, which combined the fields of history, literature, and economics, Professor Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic and cultural analysis with social and political history. His 1970 book, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, embraced the medical, legal, political, and religious dimensions of the subject and helped to pioneer the emerging field of women's history. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980) used the history of American involvement in World War I to analyze the American political system, economy, and culture in the early twentieth century. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War (1999) recounts the history of the United States in the two great crises of the Great Depression and World War II.

 

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David Kennedy, Discussant <i>Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University</i>
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