Organized by the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in collaboration with Graduate School of East Asian Studies of the Free University of Berlin

26-28 January 2015
Seminaris CampusHotel Berlin
Takustrasse 39
14195 Berlin

Program

26 January
Informal dinner and welcoming remarks by organizers at Alter Krug, 6pm
Alter Krug, Königin-Luise-Str. 52, 14195 Berlin

Day One, 27 January

Panel One: Grand Strategy, 9-10:30am
Christopher Hughes – University of Warwick
Yoshihide Soeya – Keio University
Benjamin Self – George Washington University
Break 10:30-11am

Panel Two: Domestic Politics of Foreign/Security Policy, 11am-12:30pm
Paul Midford – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Richard Samuels – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexandra Sakaki – Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Lunch 12:30-2pm

Panel Three: US- Japan Alliance, 2-3:30pm
Bryce Wakefield – Leiden University
Emma Chantlett-Avery—Congressional Research Service
May Britt Stumbaum – Free University of Berlin
Dinner 6pm

Keynote Speech— Ambassador (ret.) Volker Stanzel

Day Two, 28 January:

Panel One: Sino-Japanese Relations, 9-10:30am
Taylor Fravel – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alessio Patalano – Kings College, London
Adam Liff – Harvard University
Eric Heginbotham – Rand Corporation
Break 10:30-11am

Panel 2: Regional Diplomacy, 11am-12:30pm
Vipin Narang – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Narushige Michishita – National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Bjorn Grönning – Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies
Lindsay Black – Leiden University

Working Lunch 12:30-2:30pm

Roundtable led by Thomas Berger – Boston University
Closing Remarks