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Democracy in Asia: Building Sustainable Institutions and Practices in Turbulent Times

THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019 | 2:00 – 6:00 PMTHE VIVIAN AND DAVID CAMPBELL CONFERENCE FACILITYMUNK SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS & PUBLIC POLICY1 DEVONSHIRE PLACE

2:10 – 2:15 PM |WelcoMing ReMaRks

RANDALL HANSENInterim Director, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy;Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

2:15 – 4:00 PM | Panel i

Are we actually in the Midst of a Democratic Recession?

LUCAN AHMAD WAYProfessor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Great Powers and the Future of Democracy

SEVA GUNITSKYAssociate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Studying “China in the World” in 2019

LYNETTE ONGAssociate Professor, Department of Political Science and Asian Institute, University of Toronto

Democracy, Financial Crises, and Economic Volatility

PHILLIP LIPSCYAssistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University

Understanding Japan’s International Democracy Assistance Policy

MAIKO ICHIHARAAssociate Professor, Graduate School of Law and the School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Chair:

LOUIS PAULYInterim Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan

J. Stefan Dupré DistinguishedProfessor of Political Economy, Department of Political Science

Discussant:

DAVID A. WELCHUniversity Research Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs

4:00 – 4:15 PM | BReak

4:15 – 5:55 PM | Panel ii

Democracy in Asia: The Case of the Philippines

YUSUKE TAKAGIAssistant Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan

Japan: Asia’s First Unlikely Democracy

JOSEPH WONGProfessor, Department of Political ScienceRalph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation, Munk SchoolAssociate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, International Student Experience, University of Toronto

Indonesia: Asia’s Newest Unlikely Democracy

DAN SLATERProfessor of Political ScienceRonald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies

Director, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED), University of Michigan

Upgrading Democracy in Korea: Resilient Consolidation and Complex Challenges

SANG-YOUNG RHYUProfessor, Political Economy at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

State Control in China Under Xi Jinping

DIANA FUAssistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Chair:

LOUIS PAULYInterim Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan

J. Stefan Dupré DistinguishedProfessor of Political Economy, Department of Political Science

Discussant:

DAVID A. WELCHUniversity Research Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs

5:55 – 6:00 PM |closing ReMaRks

TAKAKO ITOConsul General of Japan in Toronto

6:00 PM | RecePtion

Itinerary

This symposium brings together a distinguished group of scholars whose work either frames contemporary global assessments of the state of democracy around the world or focuses directly on the political struggle now underway between democracy and authoritarianism across the Asian region. Its purpose is to bring current comparative research on the evolution of democratic institutions and practices of government into dialogue with cutting-edge conceptual work on democracy and democratization. The participants together address the challenge of maintaining domestic and international stability when countries are facing competing political imperatives generated both by globalizing capitalism and by the contemporary diffusion of systemic power.

Diana FuAssistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Diana Fu is an affiliate of the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention, state power, and civil society in contemporary China. Her book Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China, (Cambridge, 2018) examines state control and civil society contention under authoritarian rule. It won the 2018 American Political Science Association’s Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best book in compar-ative politics published in the previous two years. Her articles have appeared in Perspectives on Politics (2019), The China Journal (2018), Governance (2017), Comparative Political Studies (2017, co-winner of the best article in CPS), and Modern China (2009). Her research and commentary have appeared in Boston Review, CBC, The Economist, The Financial Times, Reuters, and The New York Times, among others.

Seva GunitskyAssociate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Seva Gunitsky’s work examines how international forces like war and globali - zation shape democracy and domestic reforms. He is the author of Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press). Some of his work has appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, and Perspectives on Politics, as well as popular outlets like The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The American Interest. A native of Russia, Seva is a graduate of Columbia University and a former post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University.

Maiko IchiharaAssociate Professor, Graduate School of Law and the School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Maiko Ichihara is a member of the “Rising Democracies Network,” a research network of leading experts on democracy and foreign policy, dedicated to examining the growing role of non-Western democracies in inter-national democracy support and conflict issues, hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Throughout her career, Ichihara has undertaken research on international relations and democracy assistance. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from the George Washington University. Her recent publications include: Japan’s International Democracy Assistance as Soft Power: Neoclassical Realist Analysis (New York and London: Routledge, 2017); “The Changing Role of Democracy in Asian Geopolitics,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2017); and “Japan’s Democracy Support to Indonesia: Weak Involvement of Civil Society Actors,” Asian Survey, 56 – 5 (September/October 2016), pp.905 – 930.

Phillip LipscyAssistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University

Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Phillip Lipscy’s fields of research include international and comparative political economy, international organizations, and the politics of East Asia, particularly Japan. His book from Cambridge University Press, Renegotiating the World Order: Institutional Change in International Relations, examines how countries seek greater international influence by reforming or creating inter-national organizations. His second book manuscript examines the domestic institu-tional sources of variation in energy and climate change policy. He has also published extensively on Japanese politics and foreign policy. His research appears in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Annual Review of Political Science, Asian Survey, Journal of East Asian Studies, and Japanese Journal of Political Science.

Lynette OngAssociate Professor, Department of Political Science and Asian Institute in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto

Lynette Ong is an Associate Professor of Political Science, jointly appointed with the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. She writes about authoritarian politics, contentious politics and development issues in China, and other Asian countries, such as India, Malaysia and Singapore. She is the author of Prosper or Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China (Cornell University Press, 2012). She has published in a range of journals in com - parative politics and area studies, namely, Journal of Comparative Politics, Perspectives on Politics, China Quarterly and China Journal, etc. Her opinion pieces and research have been featured in Foreign Affairs, The Economist, The Washington Post, and Foreign Policy, etc.

Sang-young RhyuProfessor, Political Economy, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Sang-young Rhyu is the editor of EAF Policy Debates and a country reviewer for Sustain-able Governance Indicators by Bertelsmann Stiftung. He received his Ph.D. from Yonsei University majoring in political science. He was a senior fellow for the Samsung Economic Research Institute (1995 – 2001) and a visiting scholar at Keio University, Japan (1992 – 1994), and University of British Columbia, Canada (2009 – 2010). He served as Director of Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum (2004-2009), Yonsei University. His major publications on democracy include The Political Economy of Change and Continuity in Korea (Springer 2019, with Seungjoo Lee), “Moon Jae-in and the Politics of Reform in South Korea” (Global Asia, vol.13, no.3, 2018), “Catastrophe 2016 in South Korea: A Tale of Dynamic History and Resilient Democracy” (EAF Policy Debates, no.63, 2016), “The Political Economy of Informal Networks in Japan and South Korea: Amakudari vs. Parachute Appointment” (U.C. Berkeley, 2014), and “Democratic Transition, Persistent Civilian Control over the Military, and the South Korean Anomaly” (Asian Journal of Political Science, vol.19, no.3, 2011, with Chung-in Moon).

Speaker Biographies

Dan SlaterProfessor of Political Science

Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies

Director, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED), University of Michigan

Dan Slater is the author of Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, 2010) and coauthor of Coercive Distribution (Cambridge Elements Series on the Politics of Development, 2018). He has published articles in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, American Journal of Sociology, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, Journal of Democracy, Perspectives on Politics, and World Politics. He is an occasional contributor to online political sites such as East Asia Forum, Foreign Affairs, Inside Indonesia, The Monkey Cage, New Mandala, and Nikkei Asian Review, and comments on the global politics of democracy and authoritarianism on Twitter at @SlaterPolitics.

Yusuke TakagiAssistant Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan

Yusuke Takagi received a doctoral degree in the Science of Law from Keio University and worked as Researcher / Advisor at the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines. Takagi was Assistant Professor of International Studies in the College of Liberal Arts, De La Salle University, Manila. His book, Central Banking as State Building: Policymakers and their Nationalism, 1933 – 1964 (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila UP, Kyoto: Kyoto UP, Singapore: NUS Press) received the 34th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award in 2018 and was a finalist of the National Book Award in the Philippines in 2017. His latest works include: “Policy coalitions and ambi-tious politicians: A case study on the Philip-pine social policy reform”, Philippine Political Science Journal, 38 (1), 2017, pp. 28 – 47, and “Duterte seiken no gaikoseisaku: Filipin ni okeru shinajiarosen no mosaku to kadai (Foreign Policy of the Duterte Administration: Challenges for His “Pro-Asia” Foreign Policy)”, Kokusaimondai (International affairs), 665, 2017.

Lucan Ahmad WayProfessor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Lucan Way’s research focuses on demo-cratization and authoritarianism. His most recent book, Pluralism by Default: Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics (Johns Hopkins, 2015), examines the sources political competition in the former Soviet Union. His book, Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Steven Levitsky), was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press. His work on competitive author-itarianism has been cited thousands of times and helped stimulate new and wide-ranging research into the dynamics of hybrid democratic-authoritarian rule.

David A. WelchUniversity Research Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs

David A. Welch is University Research Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. He teaches at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. His 2005 book Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change (Princeton University Press) is the inaugural winner of the International Studies Association ISSS Book Award for the best book published in 2005 or 2006, and his 1993 book Justice and the Genesis of War (Cambridge University Press) is the winner of the 1994 Edgar S. Furniss Award for an Outstanding Contribution to National Security Studies. His articles have appeared in Asian Perspective, Ethics and International Affairs, Foreign Affairs, The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Intelligence and National Security, Inter-national Negotiation, International Security, International Journal, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Mershon International Studies Review, The Review of International Studies, and Security Studies.

Joseph WongProfessor, Department of Political Science

Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation,

Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, International Student Experience, University of Toronto

Joseph Wong held the Canada Research Chair in Health, Democracy and Develop- ment for two full terms, ending 2016. He teaches in the Munk One program and directed the Munk School’s Asian Institute from 2005 to 2014. He publishes widely in the field of innovation studies, global public health, democracy studies, and social welfare policies in the Global South.

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