The School of Public Policy's Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery at the Central European University cordially invites you to
Economic and Strategic Implications of Sino-Japanese
Diaoyu Islands Dispute in Northeast Asia
by To-hai Liou
Why the two most powerful economies in Asia are fighting over a few tiny rocks? In his presentation, Prof. Liou, a Japan specialist from Taiwan, will first decipher Sino-Japanese Diaoyu Islands Dispute in terms of their true intentions and goals, then analyze economic, political and strategic implications for Northeast Asia.
To-hai Liou(劉德海), Ph.D.(University of Arizona), is Professor and Chair, Department of Diplomacy , Director of the Center for WTO Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan and President, the Chinese Association for Korean Studies. He has been Visiting Fellow at University of Melbourne (Dept. of Political Science, 2001-2002), University of Calgary(Dept. of Political Science, summer 2002), Australian National University (Dept. of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2006-2007) and Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (June-September 2011) under the Executive Endeavour Award of the Australian Government. He is the author of the book entitled South Korea's Foreign Relations Since the mid 1980s(1997), and co-author of two books, International Politics(1996) and Introduction to Korean Studies (2001). His research interests focus on WTO, FTA, international relations of Northeast Asia, Asian economic integration, comparative foreign policies, foreign policies of two Koreas, Japan and Australia and India.
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