Asia Dialogues

Overview

Asia Dialogues advanced cross-cultural dialogue and offered critical insights on how to reimagine the international system.

Statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il at the Mansu Hill Grand Monument, Pyongyang. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_statues_of_Kim_Il_Sung_and_Kim_Jong_Il_on_Mansu_Hill_in_Pyongyang_(april_2012).jpg">J.A. de Roo (CC)</a>

JUL 18, 2017 Podcast

Isaac Stone Fish: Facts and Fiction on North Korea

Asia Society's Isaac Stone Fish is working on a novel set in Pyongyang, but he's also looking for the truth in the "world's most opaque ...

JUL 13, 2017 Podcast

Mira Rapp-Hooper on "Subcontracting" U.S. Policy Toward Asia

The U.S. and China have fundamentally different priorities regarding the Korean Peninsula, explains Asia expert Rapp-Hooper. "So, by subcontracting North Korea policy to China," ...

Otto von Bismarck, by George Gibbs. Cover of "Saturday Evening Post" Magazine, 1903. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturday_evening_post_1903_11_28_a.jpg">Public domain</a>.

JUL 11, 2017 Podcast

Conversation with Raymond Kuo: Can Trump be a Bismarck in Asia?

"This has happened before where we've had a great power who is essentially the leader of the international system taking a transactional approach. The closest ...

JUL 6, 2017 Podcast

Tom Nichols on the Death of Expertise

Across the world today, there is active hostility towards experts, says Tom Nichols of the U.S. Naval War College, and this is a very ...

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JUN 29, 2017 Podcast

Amitai Etzioni on Avoiding War with China

The result of a war with China? "At best we have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons nobody will use which are ...

North Korea, Mass Games. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/fljckr/1027994656/sizes/l/">Stephan</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC</a>)

JUN 27, 2017 Podcast

Ali Wyne on the Risks of U.S. Disengagement from Asia

"Unless we are able to overcome our strategic attention deficit disorder for lack of a better phrase, and unless we are able to not only ...

Devin Stewart & Admiral John Richardson, chief of naval operations, U.S. Navy. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni

JUN 2, 2017 Podcast

The U.S. Navy's View on Security in Asia and Beyond

Carnegie Council's Devin Stewart talks with Admiral John Richardson, the U.S. Navy's most senior-ranking officer. Topics include strategy; the security challenges the Navy faces ...

USS Denver and the Republic of Korea Navy in the East China Sea. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/us-pacific-command/13472390513">U.S. Pacific Command</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>

MAY 2, 2017 Podcast

The Coming War with China? The Ethics of Confrontation in the Pacific

Are the United States and China on the brink of war? Can the two nations avoid miscalculation and instead find common ground? Find out what ...

A supporter of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy on Electioon Day, 2015, Rangoon, Myanmar. CREDIT: Van Royko

APR 26, 2017 Podcast

Democracy and the Deep State in Myanmar

In this fascinating interview, Maureen Aung-Thwin, founder of the Burma Project at Open Society Foundations, describes how the Project helped Burma's transition to democracy starting ...

L to R top row: Alicia Izharuddin, Carolyn Nash, Daniil Davydoff, Darlene Machell de Leon Espena; L to R middle row: Gullnaz Baig, Jiyoung Kim, Nyi Nyi Kyaw, Nazneen Uddin; L to R bottom row: Philip Caruso, Ronnie Saha, Tammy Nguyen, Yukari Kayama. CREDIT: Terence Hurley

APR 12, 2017 Podcast

Pacific Delegates (2017)

Carnegie Council's Asia Dialogues program is leading a weeklong fact-finding trip to Yogyakarta, Indonesia, during October 2017. Amid growing Islamophobia and populism in Europe and the ...