Events: Spring 2009

17 January, Saturday, 2009
"China's Aircraft Carrier Program and Its Power Projection Ambition"
By Richard Fisher, International Assessment and Strategic Center

23 January, Friday, 2009
"Japan on the Severn: A Country Report by Midshipmen on 'Semester Abroad' in Japan"

30 January, Friday, 2009
"Abroad in China: A Country Report by 6 Midshipmen on 'Semester Abroad' in China"

13 February, Friday, 2009
"China's Legal System: Brooding Omnipresence or Just Another Bureaucracy?"
by Donald Clarke, the George Washington University

20 February, Friday, 2009
"Whither Indian-Pakistani Rivalry?"
by Hayden Bellenoit, Department of History, USNA

27 February, Friday, 2009
"Prospects and Challenges: Chinese Companies Going Global"
by Fangyuan Fang, Department of Language Studies, USNA

2-6 March, 2009
ASIAN DOCUMENTARY FILM WEEK

Monday, 2 March: India
"Born Into Brothels" (dir. Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, 2004)
Tuesday, 3 March: Vietnam
"Vietnam: The Next Generation" (dir. Sandy Northrop, 2005)
Wednesday, 4 March: Japan
"White Light/Black Rain" (dir. Stephen Okazaki, 2007)
Friday, 6 March: China
"Out of Phoenix Bridge" (dir. Hong Li, 1997)

11 March, Wednesday, 2009
"How to Manage the Rise of China: A Global Perspective"
By Robert Kagan, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

25 March, Wednesday, 2009
"US-PRC Confrontations in the South China Sea: EP-3 to USNS Impeccable"
by Rear Admiral Eric McVadon, USN [Ret], Director, Asia-Pacific Studies,
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis; former U.S. Defense and Naval Attaché to China

27 March, Friday, 2009
"Challenges and Responses: Japan's National Security Environment"
by CAPT Takamichi Takahashi, Japanese Navy/Political Science Department, USNA

3 April, Friday, 2009
"China in Transition"
By Roderick MacFarquhar, Professor of History and Political Science, Harvard University

10 April, Friday, 2009
"Ruins of War: Will Thailand and Cambodia Go to War Over an 11th-Century Temple?"
By Richard Ruth, Assistant Professor of History, USNA

17 April, Friday, 2009
"Halting the Flow of Opiates: What Is Asia's Stake?"
by Victoria Greenfield, the RAND Corporation, Economics Department, USNA