The Asia Security Initiative Research Center at the East Asia Institute invited Professor Stephan Haggard for the 17th Smart Talk Forum on Monday July 11, 2011. Professor Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor at the University of California, San Diego Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. The topic of the seminar was “Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea.”

Topic

“Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea”

Presenter

Stephan Haggard, Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor at the University of California, San Diego

Moderator

Sook-Jong Lee, President of the East Asia Institute

Discussants

Youngshik Bong, Senior Research Fellow of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies

Byung-Yeon Kim, Professor of Seoul National University

Yong-Hyun Kim, Professor of Dongguk University

Young-Ho Park, Senior Research Fellow of the Korea Institute for National Unification

Seungji Woo, Professor of Kyung Hee University

Ho-Yeol Yoo, Professor of Korea University

Stephan Haggard

Stephan Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor at the University of California, San Diego Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. He has been a consultant to AID, the World Bank, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and the OECD and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis (Institute for International Economics, 2000) and coauthor of Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011) and Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform (Columbia University Press, 2007).