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[Webinar] The Russia-Ukraine War as a Case Study: Lessons for Northeast Asia
March 4, 2022 ㅡ On February 21, 2022, Russia announced that it officially recognized the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, two separatist regions located in east Ukraine. Four days later, Russia began military operations striking major Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, sparking international condemnation.
Since then, the world's attention has been on the invasion, the response from the international community, and the enormous humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ukraine.
Against this backdrop, Asia Society Korea hosts a webinar discussing "The Russia-Ukraine War as Case Study: Lessons for Northeast Asia." The panel explores the geopolitical and economic implications for Northeast Asia, what North Korea, China, and the U.S may learn from the invasion, and whether a similar conflict could occur on the Korean Peninsula or in Taiwan.
Meet Our Panelists
Dr. Mason Richey is a senior contributing writer to Asia Society Korea and an associate professor of international politics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea). Dr. Richey has also held positions as a POSCO Visiting Research Fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu, HI) and a DAAD Scholar at the University of Potsdam. His research focuses on U.S. and European foreign and security policy as applied to the Asia-Pacific. Recent scholarly articles have appeared (inter alia) in Pacific Review, Asian Security, Global Governance, and Foreign Policy Analysis. Shorter analyses and opinion pieces have been published in War on the Rocks, Le Monde, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, and Forbes, among other venues.
Dr. Richey received his Ph.D. from Binghamton University, New York.
Steven Lee Myers is the Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times. He was a correspondent in the Washington Bureau of The New York Times who covered foreign policy and national security issues. Before then, he worked as bureau chief in Moscow in 2013 and 2014, having also served as a correspondent and bureau chief there from 2002 to 2007, covering Russia and the other former Soviet republics. He is the author of a biography of Vladimir Putin, entitled The New Tsar, published by Alfred A. Knopf Books in September 2015 and reissued as a Vintage paperback in August 2016.
Myers has reported on conflicts from the ground in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Chechnya and Iraq. In 2003, he was “embedded” with the Army’s Third Infantry Division during the invasion of Iraq and reported extensively on the division’s experience there and back home that year. He returned to Iraq as a correspondent and bureau chief from 2009 to 2011.
In Washington, he also covered the White House during the presidency of George W. Bush and has written on the State Department during the tenures now of five different Secretaries of State, most recently Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Kerry.
Born in Los Angeles in 1965, Mr. Myers received a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with honors in 1987. As a Rotary International scholar, he received a master’s degree, with distinction, in literature and art history from the University of Reading, Reading, England in 1989.
Sheena Chestnut Greitens is currently Associate Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. She directs UT's Asia Policy Program, a joint initiative of the Strauss Center for International Security & Law and the Clements Center for National Security. She is also a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Her research focuses on American national security, East Asia, and authoritarian politics and foreign policy.
Dr. Youngjun Kim is a Professor of the National Security College and a Director of Center for Northeast Asian Affairs and Center for North Korean Affairs at Research Institute for National Security Affairs (RINSA) of the Korea National Defense University (KNDU). He is a member of the National Security Advisory Board for the Republic of Korea President’s Office (the Blue House). His recent publications include Origins of the North Korean Garrison State: People’s Army and the Korean War at Routledge(2017). He is a policy advisor on North Korean issues for the National Security Office of the ROK President’s Office, the National Assembly, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Ministry of National Defense (MND), Ministry of Unification, National Intelligence Service, the Joint Chief of Staff and the ROK-US Combined Forces Command. He is a managing editor of the new journal, The Korean Journal of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Energy, sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Executive Director for the Korea Nuclear Policy Society, Korean Political and Diplomatic History Association, Korea Political Science Association, and Korea Defense Policy Association.
