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The Rise of China and Prospects for Northeast Asian Regional Community
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- Hahm Chaibong
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- 10-05-25 15:00
The Asan Institute for Policy Studies hosted the 4th Asan Institute Roundtable on “The Rise of China and Prospects for Northeast Asian Regional Community” on May 26, 2010.
In the past 20 years, numerous Northeast Asian security and economic councils and organizations have been established. When taking into account the fact that no regional council had existed previously, the establishment of these organizations can be considered a significant progress toward regional integration. Whether Northeast Asia can one day become as integrated as the European Union, however, is anyone’s guess at this point. While the countries in the region strive to avoid disputes and conflicts as economic interdependence deepens, the rise of China can be a source of unease to its neighbors. The rise of China both increases the uncertainty surrounding the Korean peninsula and provides an opportunity for the countries of the region to cooperate.
Moderator Hahm Chaibong (Director, Asan Institute) and panelists T. J. Pempel (Professor, UC Berkeley), Choo Jaewoo (Professor, Kyung Hee University), Koo Minkyo (Professor, Yonsei University), Lee Seungjoo (Professor, Chungang University) and Son Yul (Professor, Yonsei University) discussed the impact of the rise of China on the Northeast Asian regional community.
Hahm Chaibong
President
Dr. HAHM Chaibong is the president of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Previously, he was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, professor in the School of International Relations and the Department of Political Science as well as the director of the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California, Director (D-1) of the Division of Social Sciences Research & Policy at UNESCO in Paris, and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University. Dr. Hahm is the author of numerous books and articles, including “China’s Future is South Korea’s Present,” Foreign Affairs, (Sep/Oct 2018), Hanguk Saram Mandeulgi (Becoming Korean), Vols. I, II, (Asan Academy, 2017), “Keeping Northeast Asia ‘Abnormal’: Origins of the Liberal International Order in Northeast Asia and the New Cold War,” Asan Forum (Sep., 2017), “South Korea’s Miraculous Democracy,” Journal of Democracy (Jul., 2008), “The Two South Koreas: A House Divided,” The Washington Quarterly (Jun., 2005), and Confucianism for the Modern World (co-edited with Daniel A. Bell, Cambridge University Press, 2003).