Monday Asia Events, March 14, 2022

🌻 DOES RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE MEAN FOR THAILAND AND SOUTHEAST ASIA? 3/14, 8:00-10:00am (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: New York Southeast Asia Network. Speakers: Nigel Gould-Davies, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Editor, Strategic Survey, IISS, former UK ambassador to Belarus; Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Director, Institute of Security and International Studies, Chulalongkorn University. 

THE BERSIH MOVEMENT, 2018 ELECTION, AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR MALAYSIAN POLITICS. 3/14, 9:00-10:00am (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: East-West Center in Washington. Speakers: Dr. Lynette H. Ong, Associate Professor, Political Science, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto; Dr. Dan Slater, Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor, Emerging Democracies and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Director, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan; Moderator: Dr. Satu P. Limaye, Vice President, Director, East-West Center in Washington. 

HARNESSING OPPORTUNITIES: CATALYZING GROWTH IN THE DATA-DRIVEN ECONOMY. 3/15, 9:30-10:30am (SGT) / 3/14, 9:30-10:30pm (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Hinrich Foundation. Speakers: Kurt Tong, Partner, Asia Group; Michaela Browning, Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google Asia Pacific; Thomas Abell, Chief and Advisor, Digital Technology for Development Unit, Asian Development Bank; Kendra Schaefer, Partner, Trivium China. 

AEROSPACE NATION: GEN KENNETH S. WILSBACH. 3/14, 10:00am (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. Speaker: Gen Kenneth S. Wilsbach, Commander of the Pacific Air Forces, Air Component Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Executive Director, Pacific Air Combat Operations Staff. 

🌻UKRAINE AND THE ARCTIC: PERSPECTIVES, IMPACTS, AND IMPLICATIONS. 3/14, 10:00-11:30am (EDT), WEBINAR. Sponsors: Wilson Center; Polar Institute; Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Speakers: Marisol Maddox, Senior Arctic Analyst, Polar Institute; Elana Wilson Rowe, Research Professor, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; James P. DeHart, U.S. Coordinator for the Arctic Region, U.S. Department of State; Ulf Sverdrup, Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; Michael Sfraga, Chair & Distinguished Fellow, Polar Institute. 

AN ASSESSMENT OF 10 YEARS OF KORUS FTA AND FUTURE OF U.S.-KOREA ECONOMIC RELATIONS. 3/14, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), WEBINAR. Sponsor: Korean Economic Institute (KEI). Speakers: Kathleen Stephens, President & CEO, Korea Economic Institute (KEI); Kim Heungchong, President, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy; Yeo Han-Koo, Minister for Trade, Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, Republic of Korea; Wendy Cutler, Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute; Troy Stangarone, Senior Director and Fellow, Korea Economic Institute of America; Jeffrey J. Schott, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Tami Overby, Senior Director, McLarty Associates; Kang Gu Sang, Research Fellow, Korea Institute of International Economic Policy; Koo Kyong Hyun, Research Fellow, Korea Institute of International Economic Policy; Ahn Dukgeun, Professor, Seoul National University; Troy Stangarone, Senior Director and Fellow, Korea Economic Institute of America.

PRC ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THE ARCTIC: IMPLICATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE. 3/14, 10:30-11:45am (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: CNA National Security Seminar. Speakers: Amb. Michael Mann, Ambassador at Large for the Arctic, European Union; Mr. Mark E. Rosen, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, CNA; Ms. Heidi Holz, Senior Research Scientist, China Studies Program, CNA; Moderator: Mr. Cornell Overfield, Research Analyst, Strategy and Policy Analysis Program, CNA. 

PRC ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THE ARCTIC: IMPLICATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE. 3/14, 10:30-11:45am (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: CNA National Security Seminar. Speakers: Amb. Michael Mann, Ambassador at Large for the Arctic, European Union; Mr. Mark E. Rosen, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, CNA; Ms. Heidi Holz, Senior Research Scientist, China Studies Program, CNA; Moderator: Mr. Cornell Overfield, Research Analyst, Strategy and Policy Analysis Program, CNA. 

🌻CYBER IN THE UKRAINE INVASION. 3/14, 11:00am-Noon (EDT), LIVESTREAM. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Chris Painter, Former Coordinator for Cyber Issues, U.S Department of State; Greg Rattray, Partner, Co-Founder, Next Peak LLC; Moderator: James Andrew Lewis, Senior Vice President, Director, Strategic Technologies Program. 

COUNTER-DECOLONIZATION: POLICING MONEY AND RACE DURING THE LONG PHILIPPINE AMERICAN WAR. 3/14, Noon-1:30pm (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Filipinx and Philippine Studies Working Group, UC Berkeley. Speaker: Allan Lumba, Assistant Professor of History, Virginia Tech University; Moderator: Joshua Acosta, Ph.D. candidate, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley. 

🌻UNDERSTANDING RUSSIA IN UKRAINE. 3/14, Noon (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: JINSA. Speakers: Stephen Sestanovich, PhD, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor, Practice of International Diplomacy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Angela Stent, PhD, Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian & East European Studies, Georgetown University; Michael Makovsky, PhD, President and CEO, JINSA. 

UNDERSTANDING U.S. COUNTERTERRORISM AND IRREGULAR OPERATIONS: AN EVENT TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF MICHAEL SHEEHAN. 3/14, Noon-1:00pm (EDT), ONLINE. Sponsor: New America. Speakers: Peter Bergen, Vice President, New America; Col. (ret.) Liam Collins, Executive Director of the Viola Foundation, Fellow, New America International Security Program, Former Director, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point; Luke Hartig, Fellow, New America International Security program, Former Senior Director for Counterterrorism, National Security Council, President, National Journal Research; Elisabeth Kendall, Research Fellow, Oxford University (Pembroke); Moderator: Karen J. Greenberg, Director, Center on National Security at Fordham Law, Fellow, New America International Security Program, Author, Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump. 

CADRE OR CARTEL? THE EVOLUTION OF THE POLITICAL-PARTY SYSTEM IN THAILAND. 3/14, 2:30-3:30am (EDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). Speakers: James Ockey, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, former ISEAS Visiting Fellow; Punchada Sirivunnabood, Visiting Fellow, Thailand Studies Programme, ISEAS, Yusof Ishak Institute, Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mahidol University, Bangkok. 

🌻RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE: THE CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER CASE OF CHINA. 3/14, 3:00-4:00 (PDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego. Speakers: Tai Ming Cheung, Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, Director, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation; Weiyi Shi, Assistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy; Victor Shih, Associate Professor, Ho Miu Lam Chair, China and Pacific Relations, School of Global Policy and Strategy; Susan Shirk, Research Professor, Chair, 21st Century China Center, School of Global Policy and Strategy; Moderator: Stephan Haggard, Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies, School of Global Policy and Strategy. 

UNDOING THE LIBERAL WORLD ORDER: PROGRESSIVE IDEALS AND POLITICAL REALITIES SINCE WORLD WAR II. 3/14, 4:00-5:30pm (EDT), ZOOM. Sponsors: Wilson Center; History and Public Policy Program. Speakers: author, Leon Fink, Distinguished professor of history emeritus , University of Illinois at Chicago, Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II. 

THE KOREAN ELECTION. 3/14, 5:00pm (PDT), ZOOM WEBINAR. Sponsor: School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego. Speakers: Erik Mobrand, Korean Policy Chair, RAND Corporation; Moderator: Stephen Haggard, Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego.