Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
2008 Summer International Symposium
in Japanese
2007summer_poster
"Northeast Asia in the Cold War: New Evidence and Perspectives"

June 26-27, 2008
Location: Gakujutsu Koryu Kaikan
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Program
Thursday, June 26  9:30 – 17:45
9:30 – 9:45
Opening and Greeting

IWASHITA Akihiro (SRC)
David WOLFF (SRC)


9:45 – 11:15
Session 1:
Leadership in the Cold War
Papers:
David WOLFF (SRC)

"Stalin’s Northeast Asia and the Lost Peace of 1951"

James PERSON (Woodrow Wilson Center)

"From Anti-Foreignism to Self-Reliance: The Evolution of North Korea’s Juche Ideology, 1953-1963"

Vladislav ZUBOK (Temple University)

"Lost in the Triangle: the Far East and Japan in the Soviet-American Backchannel Talks, 1969-1972"
Discussant:
SHIMOTOMAI Nobuo (Hosei University)
Chair:
 KIMURA Hiroshi (Takusyoku University)

11:30 – 13:15 
Session 2:
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Papers:
HA Yongchool (University of Washington) and MA Sangyoon (Catholic University of Korea)

"Pro-Market, Non-Market or Anti-Market?: The Cold War and South Korean Economic Development"

NAKACHI Mie (University of Chicago)

"Socialism, the Cold War Politics of Demography, and Northeast Asia"

Mark EDELE (University of Western Australia)

"The Cold War and Soviet Troop Reductions, 1945-1960"

Douglas STIFFLER (Juniata College)

"Sino-Soviet Negotiations for the Establishment of the People’s University of China, 1949-50"
Discussant:
Odd Arne WESTAD (London School of Economics)
Chair:
MOCHIZUKI Tetsuo (SRC)

13:15 – 14:30  
Lunch


14:30 – 16:15 
Session 3:
End of the Cold War in Northeast Asia?
Papers:
Sergey RADCHENKO (London School of Economics)

"Secret Diplomacy of  Soviet-South Korean Normalization"

NIU Jun (Beijing University)

"China "Bids Farewell" to the Cold War:Deng Xiaoping and Normalization of Relations between China and the Soviet Union"

Lisbeth TARLOW (Harvard University)

"On the Rocks: The Gorbachev Team and Japan"
Discussant:
KIM Sungho (University of the Ryukyus)
Chair:
HAN Sungjoo (Professor Emeritus, Korea University; Former Foreign Minister, Republic of Korea)

16:30 – 17:45
Session 4:
Soviet-Japanese Relations in the American Prism
Papers:
YOKOTE Shinji (Keio University)

"Soviet Repatriation Policy Pushed Japan into the Cold War"

HASEGAWA Tsuyoshi (University of California at Santa Barbara)

"The United States, the Soviet Union and the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship, 1977-1979"

Mark KRAMER (Harvard University)

"The Soviet Union, Negotiations with Japan, and the Crisis in the Communist World, 1956"
Discussant:
Vladislav ZUBOK (Temple University)
Chair:
IWASHITA Akihiro (SRC)

18:30- 
Reception

Friday, June 27  9:30 – 17:30
9:30-11:00
Session 5 :
Socialist Alliances
Papers:
SHEN Zhihua (China Eastern Normal University)

"The Soviet Air Force Goes Into Action: Relations within the Chinese-Soviet-Korean Alliance in the Early Stages of the Korean War"

WOO Seongji (Kyung Hee University)

"Inter-Korean Dialogue in the Early 1970s: Evidence from South Korean Interviews and Documents"

CHEN Jian (Cornell University)

"Limits of the “Lips and Teeth' Alliance”: Chinese-North Korean Relations in a Historical Perspective"
Discussant:
ISHII Akira (Tokyo University)
Chair:
HA Yongchool (University of Washington)

11:15 – 12:45  
Session 6:
Comparative Alliances
Papers:
Mark KRAMER (Harvard University)

"The Warsaw Pact and Soviet Policy in Northeast Asia, 1955-1964"

IZUMIKAWA Yasuhiro (Kobe College)

"Alliance Commitments, Wedge Strategy, and Dynamic Alliance Interactions in Northeast Asia: A Comparative View"

Grzegorz EKIERT (Harvard University)

"Democracy, Party Systems, and Civil Societies in post-Cold War East Central Europe and East Asia"
Discussant:
ENDO Ken (Hokkaido Univeristy)
Chair:
HAYASHI Tadayuki (SRC)

12:45 – 14:15
Lunch


14:15 – 15:45  
Session 7:
Northeast Asia, the Cold War and the 21st Century
Papers:
Dmitry GORENBURG (Harvard University)

"Akula in the water: The role of the Russian Navy in East Asia after the Cold War"

KIM Hakjoon (Donga Ilbo)

"How to Dismantle the Cold War Structure on the Korean Peninsula?: Debate among Conservatives and Progressives in South Korea and Its Implications for Relations among South Korea, North Korea and the United States "

WADA Haruki (Tokyo University)

"Hot Wars and the Cold War in Northeast Asia : Reappraisal for the Future"
Discussant:
HASEGAWA Tsuyoshi (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Chair:
HAKAMADA Shigeki (Aoyama Gakuin University)

16:00 – 17:30
Session 8:
General Discussion

James HERSHBERG (George Washington University)
SHIMOTOMAI Nobuo (Hosei University)
Odd Arne WESTAD (London School of Economics)
Chair:
David WOLFF (SRC)


Organizing Committee of the 2008 Summer International Symposium:

David WOLFF , TABATA Shinichiro, MOCHIZUKI Tetsuo, AOSHIMA Yoko
E-mail:
ses-coe@slav.hokudai.ac.jp

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