Symposium: “Origins of Prosperity and Stability: State Building in 20th Century Asia”

Welcome  Susan J. Pharr Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University   Yasunori Nakayama Director-General, Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)   Keynote Speech "The History of Asia in the 20^th Century: The Origins of Prosperity and Stability” Akihiko Tanaka President, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies   Discussant: Thomas Berger Professor of International Relations and Director, Center for the Study of Asia (2018-21), Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University   Panel: “State Building in 20^th Century Asia” Shin Kawashima Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo   “A Silent Revolution: State Building and Democratization in Modern Taiwan” Lung-chih Chang Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica   “Nation-building in Singapore: The Authoritarian Structure of a ‘Vulnerable City-State’” Keiko Tsuji Tamura Professor, Graduate School of Social System Studies, the University of Kitakyushu   “Building and Integrating the Indonesian State” Nobuhiro Aizawa Associate Professor, Kyushu University   Discussant: Dwight Perkins Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University   Moderator: Susan Pharr Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University   Speakers' papers can be requested in advance by emailing usjapan.wcfia@gmail.com.   Co-sponsored by the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA); Harvard University Asia Center; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.