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Institute for Workplace Studies-----------------Professor Samuel B. Bacharach

School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell University

16 East 34th Street, 4th floor--------------------Stuart Basefsky

New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau

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U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC and SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION (USCC)

 

HEARING ON LOOKING WEST: CHINA AND CENTRAL ASIA [18 March 2015]

http://www.uscc.gov/Hearings/hearing-looking-west-china-and-central-asia

 

Hearing Co-Chairs: Vice Chairman Dennis Shea and Commissioner Katherine Tobin Ph.D.

 

9:00a - 9:15a    Co-Chairs’ remarks: Vice Chairman Dennis Shea and Commissioner Katherine Tobin Ph.D.

 

9:15a – 10:45a Panel I: China’s Silk Road Policy

·         Mr. Raffaello Pantucci, Director of International Security Studies, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, London, UK (Testimony) ßClick Here

·         Dr. Marlene Laruelle, Director, Central Asia Program, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, DC (Testimony) ßClick Here

·         Dr. S. Frederick Starr, Chairman, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC (Testimony) ßClick Here

10:45a – 11:00a   Break

 

11:00a - 12:30p    Panel II: Trade, Infrastructure, and Natural Resources in China’s Central Asia Engagement

·         Dr. Alexander Cooley, Professor, Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY (Testimony) ßClick Here

·         Dr. Sebastien Peyrouse, Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, DC (Testimony) ßClick Here

·         Dr. Erica Downs, Senior Analyst, Eurasia Group, Washington, DC (Testimony) ßClick Here

12:30p - 1:30p   Lunch Break

 

1:30p - 3:00p    Panel III: China’s Security Engagement in Central Asia and the  Question of Afghanistan

·         Dr. Michael Clarke, Senior Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia (Testimony) ßClick Here

·         Dr. Niklas Swanström, Director, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, Sweden (Testimony) ßClick Here

·         Mr. Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States (Testimony) ßClick Here

3:00p               Adjourn

 

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