Public Opinion and Security Stability in the Taiwan Straits

Duke China Forum cordially invites you to a talk by

Professor Emerson Niou, Professor of Political Science, Duke University

"Public Opinion and Security Stability in the Taiwan Straits"

Working language: English Hudson Hall 125Duke West

Campushttp://map.duke.edu/building.php?bid=7747

Nov 7th, 2008, Friday, 3:30-5pm

EMERSON M.S. NIOU (Ph.D., U. of Texas at Austin, 1987), Professor of Political Science, specializes in Formal Theory, International Relations, Political Economy, and East Asian Politics. He is the co-author of The Balance of Power, Cambridge University Press, 1989. His publications in the field of international relations include: "Less Filling, Tastes Great: The Realist-Neoliberal Debate," coauthored with P. C. Ordeshook, World Politics, January 1994 and "Alliances in Anarchic International Systems," coauthored with P. C. Ordeshook, International Studies Quarterly, June 1994. In the field of East Asian politics, his recent publications include: "An Analysis of Dr. Sun Yet-sen's Self-Assessment Scheme for Land Policy," with G. Tan, Public Choice, December 1993; "Seat Bonuses under the Single Non-Transferable Vote for Large Parties: Evidence from Japan and Taiwan," with G. Cox, Comparative Politics, January 1994; and "Police Patrol vs. Self-Policing: A Comparative Analysis of the Control Systems Used in the Ex-Soviet Union and the Communist China," with John Brehm, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1996. His current projects include studies of local self-government in China and alliance politics in anarchic international systems. Professor Niou is Director of the Program in Asian Security Studies at Duke University.

"Whither China? What Nationalism?"

Duke China Forum cordially invites you to a talk by

Professor Gang Yue, Chair, Department of Asian Studies,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Whither China? What Nationalism?"

The Multicultural Center Resource/Conference Room, Bryan Center
Duke West Campus
http://mcc.studentaffairs.duke.edu/location/index.html
October 4, 2008, Saturday, 2:00-4:00 pm
Light refreshments are provided.

Professor Gang Yue received his Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon in 1993. He teaches courses in Chinese language, modern Chinese literature and cultural studies, and Asian American studies. His current research is concerned with Chinese cultural production of Tibetan themes, the development of the "Shangri-La" eco-tourism zone in Eastern Tibet, and recent social changes in the multi-ethnic regions of Western China.

"China's Changing Challenge to the US and Taiwan" by NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER

NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER
Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University
and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
"China's Changing Challenge to the US and Taiwan"
Location: The Multicultural Center Resource Room, Bryan Center
Duke West Campus
Time: September 26, 2008, 3:30-5:00 pm


Nancy Bernkopf Tucker is Professor of History at Georgetown University
and at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is an
American diplomatic historian who specializes in American-East Asian
relations, particularly United States relations with China, Taiwan
and Hong Kong. In 2007 she received a National Intelligence Medal of
Achievement for distinguished meritorious service as the first
Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analytic
Integrity and Standards and Analytic Ombudsman in the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence. In 1986-87, she served in the
Office of Chinese Affairs in the Department of State and at the U.S.
Embassy in Beijing. Previously she taught at Colgate University and
New York University. She has been a fellow at the Institute for
Advanced Study, the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio Study Center),
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the United
States Institute of Peace, Harvard University, and the Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences as well as a Council on Foreign Relations
International Affairs Fellow and recipient of generous research
support from the Smith Richardson Foundation. She has been a member of
the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Historical
Diplomatic Documentation and the boards of the Institute for the Study
of Diplomacy and the National Committee on US-China Relations and is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her Ph.D. is from Columbia
University. Her book on the strategic and political history of
US-Taiwan relations since 1969 Strait Talk: US-Taiwan Relations and
the Crisis with China will be published in 2008 and her edited volume
on contemporary problems in US-Taiwan-China relations and Taiwan
affairs Dangerous Straits came out in 2005. She is the author of
Uncertain Friendships: Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States,
1945-1992 -- winner of a 1996 Bernath Book Prize of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, Patterns in the Dust:
Chinese-American Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949-1950,
co-edited Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World and edited and annotated
China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations.
Her essays have appeared in more than a dozen edited books and various
journals including Foreign Affairs, Journal of American History,
American Historical Review, Survival, Political Science Quarterly,
Diplomatic History and the Washington Quarterly.

POSTPONED: The Duke China Forum is pleased to invite you to attend a Salon on Nationalism

The Duke China Forum is pleased to invite you to attend a Salon on Nationalism.

What do you think about the national mentality encouraged by the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games?

What are your thoughts on the pressures on China’s rich-and-famous to give donations to support the 5.12 Sichuan earthquake victims?

Interested? Come to this salon!

Let’s chat about the implications of nationalism through our own experiences. All thoughts and opinions are welcome! We hope you will enjoy the relaxing and creative atmosphere.

Additionally, delicious food will be provided!

Please register at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=c0CJaToVHXTblSkkI2Qp_2bA_3d_3d

Time: TBA
Location: TBA
Language: Chinese/English.

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