Asia and the 2024 US Elections: Trends of Uncertainty and Continuity
Date: Friday, October 18, 2024
Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Location: Rotunda Dome Room
The University of Virginia East Asia Center will be hosting a panel with two speakers from the East-West Center in Washington, Satu Limaye and Nicholas Hamisevicz, who will be joining East Asia Center Director Leonard Schoppa to discuss the perception of the 2024 United States elections within various Asian populations, particularly China, India, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.
Guest Speakers:
Dr. Satu Limaye
Dr. Satu Limaye is Vice President of the East-West Center and the Director of the East-West Center in Washington and Research Program. He created and directs the Asia Matters for America initiative and is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Bulletin. He is also a Senior Advisor at CNA Corp (Center for Naval Analyses). He is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his doctorate from Oxford University (Magdalen College) where he was a George C. Marshall Scholar. He has also been a Henry R. Luce Scholar and Abe Fellow (Japan Foundation, Social Science Research Council, & American Council of Learned Societies).
He publishes and speaks widely on Indo-Pacific regional issues and supports various US government, foundation, fellowship, and professional organizations. He recently served on the Center for New American Security (CNAS) Task Force on the US-Philippines Alliance, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Senior Study Group on the North Pacific, Project 2049 Study Group on the US-Australia Alliance, and Global Taiwan Institute-Taiwan Asia Exchange Foundation project on Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy. He serves on the Korea Economic Institute (KEI) Advisory Council, the Global Taiwan Institute Advisory Board, and the editorial board of East Asian Policy (East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore) and regional editor of Global Asia (East Asia Foundation, ROK).
Recent publications include: Southeast Asia’s choices: Economic, political, and geopolitical integration face complications, India in East Asia: Focused on the Quad and Border Disputes with China, and Maintaining the Technology Edge: Strengthening US and Indo-Pacific Alliances to Counter Chinese Technology Acquisition (with Rose Tenyotkin).
Dr. Nicholas Hamisevicz
Dr. Nicholas Hamisevicz is a Program Manager at the East-West Center in Washington, and he is responsible for the Adjunct Fellows and Research Innovation and Collaboration Exchange (RICE) programs.
Previously, Nicholas was the Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) where he oversaw KEI’s output on issues affecting the US-South Korea alliance, especially topics related to North Korea, and led KEI’s efforts to connect the policy and academic communities. He published numerous articles and blog posts and wrote several chapters on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and South Korea’s strategic partnership with India for various books and edited volumes. He also visited North Korea in August 2011.
Prior to joining KEI, Nicholas was the Research Associate in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation. He wrote and provided research analysis on political and security affairs, especially regarding China, Korea, and South Asia. He was also a co-author for Heritage’s publication of Key Asian Indicators: A Book of Charts.
Nicholas completed his PhD in the Department of Politics at The Catholic University of America, writing a dissertation on the effectiveness of strategic partnerships in Asia. He was awarded a Critical Language Scholarship by the US Department of State and studied Korean in Gwangju, South Korea in 2016. Nicholas also co-authored a chapter on the human rights conditions along the border of North Korea and China for an edited book by Amsterdam University Press. He has a MA in International Communication from American University, a MA in International Studies from Korea University, and a BA in Communication Studies from West Virginia Wesleyan College.