September 22, 2013 at 4:36 PM
I just came back from my first trade seminar experience in Washington, D.C. The WITA-GWU ITS, sponsored by the Washington International Trade Association (WITA) and the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University, is a 2-Day intensive program on U.S. trade policy making with a series of briefings by U.S. policy makers, lawyers, […]
September 22, 2013 at 1:52 PM
A while ago I gave a practice job talk at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University. It was not really intended for a real job, but for my own training to address the important issues of my dissertation to a general audience. The audience were a group of predoctoral fellows, […]
August 26, 2013 at 1:26 PM
Last week, I attended a conference on China’s Reforms held at the University of Costa Rica (UCR), located in the capital of the country – San José, Costa Rica. I benefitted from information in books on Costa Rica prior to the trip. Other than my previous short trips to Mexico, this would be my first […]
August 7, 2013 at 10:30 PM
A while ago, a local college in Boston contacted me and asked if I could deliver a lecture for a group of Japanese high school students visiting the United States. After some days of negotiating on the compensation, I decided to do a lecture on U.S. foreign economic policies with a focus on Northeast Asia […]
Last week, I embarked on a journey to Monterey in California to present the contents of my dissertation project at the Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and the Korea Foundation. The workshop was held at the Asilomar Conference Grounds at Monterey, where wildlife on the coasts of the Pacific […]
In Spring 2013, I taught a course on contemporary international relations of East Asia to a small group of college students at Tufts University. The number of students did not go beyond 20, and owing to the small size of the class, I was able to benefit from much of the discussions that went on […]
April 30, 2013 at 1:25 PM
Last week, I attended the Global Political Economy (GPE) PhD Dissertation Workshop held at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) in Waterloo, Canada. I was very curious to learn how the Canadian field of political economy would differ from the one here in the U.S. Established by the Canadian entrepreneur and founder of Blackberry, […]
October 3, 2011 at 2:57 AM
WHOSE OX IS GORED? “Overall, whose ox is gored?” is the main question Professor Gregory Noble raised during his comments in the Social Science Dissertation Workshop last week which was held at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo (we also call it Shaken Seminar). “It all depends on whose ox is being gored” […]
September 25, 2011 at 9:08 AM
At a recent policy paper presentation and publication event held at the Korea Economic Institute of America (see the video recording of the conference here) in Washington, D.C., the comments on capital use, profit maximization, and the recent implementation of capital controls prompted me to write this column. Allow me to lay out some of the discussions I […]
February 2, 2010 at 11:23 PM
Prior to the reforms that the Indian government undertook in the early 1990s, India was known to the world as a country of abundant cultural heritage, but also a country in possession of the irrational caste system, with a vast majority of its citizens living in poverty. After almost two decades of economic and political transformation, India is taking the steps to reach out to its East Asian neighbors.
