The Asia Foundation

The U.S.-ROK Alliance and East Asia
The Center's activities will seek to provide a supporting context for strengthening the U.S.-ROK alliance amid potential changes in the regional security environment stemming from China's rise.

• U.S.-ROK Workshop on China
• U.S.-ROK-Japan Dialogue
• Regional Views of China

Global Korea
The Center will examine new opportunities for alliance cooperation on off-peninsula security issues in line with South Korea's enhanced capabilities, expanded scope of interests, and efforts to raise its international profile.

• Maritime Security
• Post-Conflict Stabilization
• Disaster Relief
• International Peacekeeping

Functional Issues
The Center will consider specific functional areas of cooperation in the context of an expanded alliance.

• Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation
• International Development Assistance
• Climate Change and Green Growth

U.S.-ROK Coordination on North Korea
The Center will analyze aspects of DPRK policy as part of its analysis of U.S.-ROK coordination on North Korea.

• North Korea and Marginal States
• Engaging Adversarial States
• Chinese Policy toward the Korean Peninsula

South Koreak Domestic Politics and the U.S.-ROK Alliance
The Center will continue its study of ROK constituencies that shape domestic attitudes toward the alliance.

Half-day seminar highlighting opportunities for U.S.-ROK private sector collaboration on green growth, featuring the chairman of South Korea's Green Growth Commission, and co-sponsored with the Korea Economic Institute. Sponsoring quarterly reports which reviewed the latest developments in South Korea's pursuit of its green growth strategy, including international collaborative efforts to promote green growth.

Bilateral development cooperation workshop hosted in Seoul, providing an opportunity for a small group of American and South Korean specialists and government officials to discuss in-depth prospects for bilateral development cooperation.

Co-sponsorship of a workshop with leading North Korea experts, the revised draft papers are to be published as a book entitled North Korea in Transition.

Workshop on China's Rise and Implications for the U.S.-ROK Alliance, co-hosted with South Korea's Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security and Jeju Peace Institute.

Joint project with the Seoul-based East Asia Institute on the influence of domestic stakeholders on the U.S.-South Korea alliance, focusing on legislative bodies, media, private sectors, and civil societies.

Quarterly assessments of U.S.-South Korea cooperation on climate change and green growth including new opportunities for private sector collaboration.

Public conference on the topic of "Recasting the Korean Model of Development: Issues, Debates, and Lessons," held in collaboration with the Korean Economic Association and Korean Political Science Association.

Public symposium co-hosted with The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation on the implications of wartime operational control transfer for the U.S.-South Korea alliance.

Public forum on the topic of "Post-Cheonan Regional Security," co-hosted with the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul.

Three-part symposium series co-hosted with The Brookings Institution in Washington and The Asia Foundation Korea Office in Seoul

U.S. Policy toward the Korean Peninsula report by the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force, directed by the Foundation's Center for U.S.-Korea Policy director, Scott Snyder; Closed-door workshops with U.S. and South Korean counterparts on North Korea contingency planning.

Closed-door workshops on U.S.-South Korea cooperation on nuclear energy and nonproliferation, held in collaboration with The Stimson Center and Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute; Special report on New U.S.-ROK Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: A Precedent for A New Global Nuclear Architecture.

Seminar assessing new possibilities of trilateral cooperation between the United States and alliance partners South Korea and Japan.

Establishment of The Asia Foundation's Center for U.S.-Korea Policy, which supports and conducts research and dialogue to promote an agenda of issues for increased cooperation between the Republic of Korea and the United States.

Public forum co-hosted with The Asia Foundation Korea Office and Friends of The Asia Foundation Korea, featuring panel presentations on international peacekeeping, maritime security, and overseas development assistance.

Public seminar and panel presentations co-hosted with The Brookings Institution on U.S.-ROK alliance cooperation on pandemics, counter-terrorism, and space.

Public policy forum and discussions on visions for the U.S.-ROK alliance, U.S. alliance partnerships from comparative perspective, and South Korean public views of the alliance co-hosted with The Asia Foundation Korea office and Friends of The Asia Foundation Korea.

The Foundation's Center for U.S.-Korea Policy director, testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment, on "Smart Power: Remaking U.S. Foreign Policy in North Korea." He also testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment, and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, on "Korea's Nuclear and Missile Tests and Six Party Talks"; Report on "North Korea Contingency Planning and U.S.-ROK Cooperation" examining U.S.-ROK cooperation on potential instability in North Korea.

Public policy forum, organized with the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy, to explore prospects for expanding the alliance into new areas.

Workshop on prospects for expanding the U.S.-ROK alliance featuring paper presentations on pandemics, nonproliferation, space, peacekeeping, maritime governance, climate change, counter-terrorism, human rights, post-conflict reconstruction and stabilization. Initial reports included, "Strengthening the U.S.-ROK Alliance" and "Benchmarking America's Military Alliances."