EVENTS

Date:	Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Time:	10:30 AM -- 12:00 PM
Location:	Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

Michael Auslin studies U.S.-Asian relations, Japanese foreign policy, and Asian security as a resident scholar and director of Japan studies at AEI. Previously, Mr. Auslin was an associate professor of history and a senior research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. He has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Marshall Memorial Fellow by the German Marshall Fund, and a Fulbright and Japan Foundation Scholar. His writings on Japan and Japanese diplomacy include the books Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy (Harvard University Press, 2006) and Japan Society: Celebrating a Century, 1907-2007 (Japan Society, 2007).
 
Ted R. Bromund is the Margaret Thatcher Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. From 1999 to 2008, he was the associate director of International Security Studies at Yale University. In that capacity, he was responsible for event planning and organization, report and grant writing, fundraising, and fellowship programs. He was also a lecturer in history and, from 2004, a lecturer in international affairs, with responsibility for designing, administering, and teaching the core security studies curriculum in Yale's international relations MA program. He spoke regularly to campus, alumni, and other audiences on historical and contemporary topics. Mr. Bromund has published articles and reviews in a variety of scholarly journals and is a regular commentator on current affairs in Commentary and the Yorkshire Post (UK).

Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow in defense and security policy studies at AEI. He is the author, with Frederick W. Kagan, of Ground Truth: The Future of U.S. Land Power (AEI Press, May 2008); the coeditor, with Gary J. Schmitt, of Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources (AEI Press, 2007); and the author of The Military We Need (AEI Press, 2005), Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment (AEI Press, 2004), and several other books. From 1995 to 1999, he was policy group director and a professional staff member for the House Armed Services Committee. Mr. Donnelly also served as a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is a former editor of Armed Forces Journal, Army Times, and Defense News.

Paul Wolfowitz is a visiting scholar in foreign and defense policy studies at AEI, where he studies development issues. He has spent more than three decades in public service and higher education. Most recently, he served as president of the World Bank and deputy secretary of defense. Prior to that, he was dean and professor of international relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He has also served as under secretary of defense for policy (1989-93) and U.S. ambassador to Indonesia (1986-89). He was the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs (1982-86) and director of policy planning at the Department of State. He worked as deputy assistant secretary of defense for regional programs at the Department of Defense and as special assistant to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1973-77).