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President Hahm Chaibong of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies Takes a Trip to Washington, D.C.
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- 13-02-05 15:00
To commemorate the launch of the Asan-Washington Fellowship *, and the Asan Institute’s rapid rise as one of the region’s top think tanks (5th in China, India, Japan and the Republic of Korea, and 2nd in Korea in 2012 Global Go To Think Tanks Report and Policy Advice), President Hahm Chaibong, visited 11 partnering institutions in Washington, D.C. from January 27 to January 31.
During the visit, he met with many Washington D.C. based government officials and policy experts, such as Ambassador Y.J Choi at the Korean Embassy, Dr. John J. Hamre, President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Mr. Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Dr. Douglas Paal, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), and
Partner-institutions include: East-West Center, Center for the National Interest (CNI), Cato Institute, Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Stimson Center, Korea Economic Institute (KEI), the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Amnesty International, Center for International Private Enterprise, and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation.
Hahm Chaibong
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Dr. HAHM Chaibong is the president of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Previously, he was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, professor in the School of International Relations and the Department of Political Science as well as the director of the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California, Director (D-1) of the Division of Social Sciences Research & Policy at UNESCO in Paris, and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University. Dr. Hahm is the author of numerous books and articles, including “China’s Future is South Korea’s Present,” Foreign Affairs, (Sep/Oct 2018), Hanguk Saram Mandeulgi (Becoming Korean), Vols. I, II, (Asan Academy, 2017), “Keeping Northeast Asia ‘Abnormal’: Origins of the Liberal International Order in Northeast Asia and the New Cold War,” Asan Forum (Sep., 2017), “South Korea’s Miraculous Democracy,” Journal of Democracy (Jul., 2008), “The Two South Koreas: A House Divided,” The Washington Quarterly (Jun., 2005), and Confucianism for the Modern World (co-edited with Daniel A. Bell, Cambridge University Press, 2003).