Miller, Ye Present at Conference on Indo-Pacific Region
Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and Min Ye, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School, were invited to participate in a conference, “The Free and Open Indo-Pacific Region: Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities,” jointly organized by the Ford School of Public Policy, and the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan with support from the Office of Global Communications of the Office of the Japanese Prime Minister.
The conference comprised public panels as well as a closed-door Track II diplomacy workshop. Miller spoke on Indian strategy in the Indo-Pacific region, and its relationship with China and the great powers while Ye spoke on China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the opportunities and challenges it presents in the Indo-Pacific.
Other participants included former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Susan Thornton (who was also a keynote speaker); Emeritus Professor, and former Senior Director for Asia on the U.S. National Security Council, Kenneth Lieberthal; and Professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo, Satoshi Ikeuchi.
Manjari Chatterjee Miller is Associate Professor (with tenure) of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. She works on foreign policy and security issues with a focus on South and East Asia. She specializes in the foreign policies of rising powers, India and China. Her book, Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (Stanford University Press, 2013) argues that the bitter history of colonialism affects the foreign policy behavior of India and China even today. She is currently working on rising powers, and the domestic ideational frameworks that explain their changing status.
Min Ye is the author of Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and The Making of Northeast Asia (with Kent Calder, Stanford University Press, 2010). Her articles, “China’s Outbound Direct Investment: Regulation and Representation,” “Competing Cooperation in Asia Pacific: TPP, RCEP, and the New Silk Road,” and “Conditions and Utility of Diffusion by Diasporas” have appeared in Modern China Studies (2013), Journal of Asian Security (2015), and Journal of East Asian Studies (2016).