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The Asia Security Initiative Research Center at the East Asia Institute invited Professor Lowell Dittmer (University of California, Berkeley) for the 18th Smart Talk Forum on Friday July 15, 2011. The topic of the seminar was “Taiwan’s Security in an Era of Cross-Strait Detente.”

 

Topic

“Taiwan’s Security in an Era of Cross-Strait Detente“

 

Presenter

Lowell Dittmer (Professor of UC Berkeley)

 

Moderator

Sukhee Han (Director of EAI China Research Panel & Professor of Yonsei University)

 

Discussants

Jaewoo Choo (Kyung Hee University)

Joo-Youn Jung (Korea University)

Taeho Kim (Hallym University)

Sang-Yoon Ma (Catholic University of Korea)

 

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Lowell Dittmer

Professor Dittmer received his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in 1971. His scholarly expertise is the study of contemporary China. He teaches courses on contemporary China, Northeast Asia, and the Pacific Rim. His current research interests include a study of the impact of reform on Chinese Communist authority, a survey of patterns of informal politics in East Asia, and a project on the China-Taiwan-US triangle in the context of East Asian regional politics. Professor Dittmer's recently published books and monographs include Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications (University of Washington Press, 1992), China's Quest for National Identity (with Samuel Kim, Cornell University Press, 1993), China Under Modernization (Westview Press, 1994), and South Asia's Nuclear Crisis (M. E. Sharpe, 2005).

 

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