Event Description:
Please join the Foreign Policy Association in welcoming Dr. Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, who will deliver the annual John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture titled, “The Future of the Korean Peninsula.” The lecture will be hosted at Baruch College (55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY), in Room 14-220.
Registration begins at 5:30 pm The lecture will be followed by a reception.
This lecture will coincide with the Foreign Policy Association’s year-long Centennial Lecture Series,
celebrating 100 years of commitment to fostering an educated public
discourse on the most influential topics in U.S. foreign policy. The
Foreign Policy Association’s Centennial Lecture Series features
extraordinary speakers, who will take the long view and imagine the
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that “In a democracy the Government functions with the consent of the
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ever, this message continues to have resonance, and will remain the
guiding principle and goal of the Foreign Policy Association.
Dr. Victor Cha
Senior Adviser and Korea Chair
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Victor Cha joined CSIS in May 2009 as a senior adviser and the
inaugural holder of the Korea Chair. He is the D.S. Song-KF Professor of
Government in the Department of Government and School of Foreign
Service at Georgetown University. From 2004 to 2007, he served as
director for Asian affairs at the White House on the National Security
Council (NSC), where 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 and received two Outstanding Service
Commendations during his tenure at the NSC. He is the award-winning
author of Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan
Security Triangle (Stanford University Press, 1999), winner of the 2000
Ohira Book Prize; Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement
Strategies, with Dave Kang (Columbia University Press, 2004); Beyond the
Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia (Columbia University Press,
2009); and The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (Ecco,
2012), selected by Foreign Affairs magazine as a 2012 “Best Book on Asia
and the Pacific”. His newest book is Powerplay: Origins of the American
Alliance System in Asia (Princeton University Press, 2016). 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.
Dr. Cha is a former John M. Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard
University, a two-time Fulbright Scholar, and a Hoover National Fellow,
CISAC Fellow, and William J. Perry Fellow at Stanford University. He
holds Georgetown University & Dean's Teaching Award
for 2010 and the Distinguished Research Award for 2011. 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, NBC Today Show, CBS Morning Show, Fox
News, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and National Public
Radio. He has a cameo role (as himself) in the action film Red Dawn
(Contrafilm, MGM, Vincent Newman Entertainment, 2012). Dr. Cha holds a
BA, an MIA, and a PhD from Columbia University, as well as an
MA from Oxford University.
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