On Wednesday 23 January 2008, Professor Victor D. Cha (Georgetown University) will lead a discussion meeting on the topic of "The Politics of Sport and the Beijing Olympics" from 1.30-2.30 pm.
Professor Victor D. Cha (PhD Columbia, MA Oxford, BA Columbia) left the White House in May 2007 after serving since 2004 as Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. At the White House, he was responsible primarily for Japan, the Korean peninsula, Australia/New Zealand and Pacific Island nation affairs. Dr Cha was also the Deputy Head of Delegation for the United States at the Six Party Talks in Beijing. He received two Outstanding Service Awards during his tenure at the White House.
In 2007 he returned to Georgetown, where he holds the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies in the Department of Government and the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is the award-winning author of Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (Stanford University Press) (winner of the 2000 Ohira Book Prize) and co-author of Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (Columbia University Press, 2004). He has written articles on international relations and East Asia in journals including Foreign Affairs, International Security, Political Science Quarterly, Survival, International Studies Quarterly, and Asian Survey. Professor Cha is a former John M. Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard University, two-time Fulbright Scholar, and Hoover National Fellow and CISAC Fellow at Stanford University. He serves as an independent consultant, and has testified before Congress on Asian security issues. He has been a guest analyst for various media including CNN, ABC Nightline, CBS Morning Show, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, and National Public Radio.
Until 2004, he directed the American Alliances in Asia project at Georgetown. He is currently writing a book on Sports Diplomacy in Asia and the Beijing Olympics. Since 2007 he has been Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown.
This meeting will be chaired by Dr Dana Allin (IISS Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Affairs) and will take place on the Fourth Floor at Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3DX.
If you would like to attend this meeting, please RSVP Kathleen James on james@iiss.org or Tel 020 7395 9109
