Barry Buzan, Arne Westad (chair)
27 April 2010, 6.30pm, Woolfson Theatre
East Asia is home to the second and third largest economies in the world, which together have been the engine of global growth for the past two decades. Yet China and Japan's recent dynamism was preceded during the Cold War by intense competition and conflict, spurred by the involvement of outside powers. East Asia is still home to the last remaining Cold War conflicts, in Korea and Taiwan, which are of enduring interest to the West even as the power shift underway in the region are accompanied by ever-stronger claims of self-reliance.
To launch the LSE IDEAS East Asia International Affairs Programme Professor Barry Buzan will analyse the evolution of international society in East Asia. Professor Buzan will consider the distinctive history of the East Asia's international dynamics and in particular the region's uneasy relationship with the West to assess the prospects for East Asia in the 21st Century.
PODCAST OF THIS EVENT IS AVAILABLE HERE.
Speakers
Professor Barry Buzan is the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at LSE, an honorary professor at Copenhagen and Jilin Universities, and a Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS.
Professor Arne Westad is Professor of International History at the LSE and co-director of LSE IDEAS. His book The Global Cold War (Cambridge, 2006) won the Bancroft Prize, the Harrington Award and the Akira Iriye International History Award. »
Location
Woolfson Theatre, London School of Economics. Map.