409) US-China Maritime Security relations - FPRI

Conference on US-China Maritime Security Relations

Conference Sponsors
Foreign Policy Research Institute www.fpri.org
Reserve Officers Association www.roa.org

Sea Change?
Conflicting Claims, Disparate Agendas and U.S.-China
Maritime Security Relations

Thursday, May 13, 2010
2:00 - 4:45 PM EDT
Reserve Officers Association
One Constitution Avenue NE, Washington, DC

Reservations Required
Free for FPRI and ROA Members, $25 for non-Members

To register contact:
Alan Luxenberg
Tel: (215) 732-3774 x105
Email: lux@fpri.org
Please provide full contact information.

This conference will also be available via Audio Webcast and
by Teleconference
Participation by audio webcast or teleconference is free.

For instructions on how to participate via webcast or
teleconference contact:
Alan Luxenberg
Tel: (215) 732-3774 x105
Email: lux@fpri.org
Please provide full contact information.

FPRI and ROA will convene a symposium to address issues in
U.S.-China and Northeast Asian regional security relations
that arise from China’s growing maritime power , conflicting
claims of maritime and territorial sovereignty in the ocean
areas adjacent to China and the rights of foreign military
craft to operate in the region, including China's claimed
exclusive economic zone. The session will address the
prospects for conflict and accommodation, the merits of the
principal parties' claims, and the significance of these
issues for broader U.S.-China relations. Implications for
Japan's role and Sino-Japanese relations will be addressed
as well.


Agenda
Thursday, May 13, 2010
2:00 - 4:45 PM EDT

Sea Change?
Conflicting Claims, Disparate Agendas and U.S.-China
Maritime Security Relations

Panel I: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Implications of China's Rising Maritime Power and U.S. and
Japanese Responses

Panelists:
Avery Goldstein, David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics
and International Relations and Associate Director of the
Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics,
University of Pennsylvania; Senior Fellow, FPRI

Lt. Col. James R. Kendall, Foreign Area Officer, USMC

Felix Chang, Senior Fellow, FPRI

Moderator: Jacques deLisle, Director, FPRI Asia Program, and
Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Director of the Center
for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania


Panel II: 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Contested Claims: Territorial Sovereignty and Rights of
Operation / Rules of the Road for Military Craft

Panelists:
Jacques deLisle, Director, FPRI Asia Program, and Stephen A.
Cozen Professor of Law and Director of the Center for East
Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Peter Dutton, Associate Professor, U.S. Naval War College
and a founding member of the China Maritime Studies
Institute, US Naval War College

Xinjun Zhang, Associate Professor of Public International
Law at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and Fulbright Scholar
(2009-10), University of Pennsylvania Law School

Moderator: Harvey Sicherman, President, FPRI

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About the Panelists

Felix K. Chang, an FPRI Senior Fellow, is a partner at CVP
Ventures, a venture capital firm. He was previously a
consultant in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Organization and
Strategy practice; among his clients were the U.S.
Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
and other agencies. Earlier, he served as a senior planner
and an intelligence officer in the U.S. Department of
Defense and a business advisor at Mobil Oil Corporation,
where he dealt with strategic planning for upstream and
midstream investments throughout Asia and Africa. His
publications and ongoing research concentrate on military,
economic, and energy security issues in Asia as well as
financial industry trends around the world. He received his
M.B.A. from Duke University and M.A. and B.A. from the
University of Pennsylvania. His FPRI essays can be found
here:
http://www.fpri.org/byauthor.html#chang

Jacques deLisle is Director of FPRI’s Asia Program, the
Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and the Director of the
Center for East Asian Studies at the University of
Pennsylvania. His research focuses on Chinese politics and
legal reform, China's approach to international law and
institutions, U.S.-China relations, and the international
status of Taiwan. His articles also have appeared in Orbis
and other foreign affairs journals, law reviews and edited
volumes. He received a J.D. and graduate education in
political science at Harvard and an A.B. from Princeton. His
FPRI essays can be found here:
http://www.fpri.org/byauthor.html#delisle

Peter Dutton, a retired Navy commander and judge advocate,
is associate professor of joint military operations at the
Naval War College and an adjunct professor at Roger Williams
University School of Law. Professor Dutton earned his juris
doctorate from the College of William and Mary and a master
of arts from the Naval War College (with honors). While on
active duty, he served as a naval flight officer, taught at
the Naval Justice School and the Defense Institute of
International Legal Studies, and served as operational law
adviser to Commander, USS John F. Kennedy Battle Group,
during Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. In 2004, Professor Dutton
became the Naval War College’s Howard S. Levie Chair of
Operational Law. He is a founding member of the College’s
China Maritime Studies Institute and writes on issues
related to U.S. and Chinese perspectives on maritime
international law as they relate to security.

Avery Goldstein, an FPRI Senior Fellow, is the David M.
Knott Professor of Global Politics and International
Relations and Associate Director of the Christopher H.
Browne Center for International Politics at the University
of Pennsylvania. He specializes in international relations,
security studies, and Chinese politics. He is currently
conducting research on China’s grand strategy. He is the
Associate Director of Penn’s Christopher H. Browne Center
for International Politics. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of California, Berkeley. His books include Rising
to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International
Security (Stanford University Press, 2005), Deterrence and
Security in the 21st Century: China, Britain, France, and
the Enduring Legacy of the Nuclear Revolution (Stanford
University Press, 2000), and From Bandwagon to Balance-of-
Power Politics: Structural Constraints and Politics in
China, 1949–1978 (Stanford University Press, 1991). His FPRI
essays can be found here:
http://www.fpri.org/byauthor.html#goldstein

LtCol James R. Kendall is an East Asia Foreign Area Officer
currently preparing to attend the Japanese National
Institute of Defense Studies (NIDS) in Tokyo this summer.
From 2006 until last January, he was a Strategic Analyst
with the Marine Corps’ Strategic Initiatives Group (SIG) at
the Pentagon, conducting service-level analysis of the US
Pacific Command (PACOM) area of responsibility and
Afghanistan. Fluent in Japanese, LtCol Kendall also served
at the Japanese Defense Agency in Tokyo in 2003, aiding the
historic Japanese deployment to Iraq. An artillery officer,
he has undertaken numerous overseas deployments and
assignments since being commissioned in 1991, including two
in Japan, and participated in such operations as RESTORE
HOPE in Somalia in 1994 and IRAQI FREEDOM in Al Anbar
province, Iraq, in 2004 and 2006. LtCol Kendall graduated
from the Virginia Military Institute in1991, and in 2002
received his MA in National Security Affairs from the Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he was a
Distinguished Graduate. His personal awards include the
Meritorious Service Medal, Navy and Marine Corps
Commendation Medal and the Combat Action Ribbon.

Dr. Xinjun Zhang is Associate Professor of Public
International Law at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He
received his doctoral degree from Kyoto University. His
research interests include the Law of the Sea, Non-
proliferation Law and the Law of Treaties. He is a member of
International Law Association (ILA), and active participant
in the `Committee on The Legal Principles relating to
Climate Change|. He is currently a Fulbright Research
Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His
FPRI essay on China-Japan maritime sovereignty disputes can
be found here:
http://www.fpri.org/byauthor.html#zhang