TIU International Affairs Seminar Series: Confronting or Engaging the DPRK? “Fire and Fury”, Summit Diplomacy, and Declaration to End the Korean War When:Nov 25, 2021 03:30 PM Japan TimeRegister:bit.ly/aseandprkGuest Lecturer:Dr. Hoo Chiew Ping, Strategic Studies & International Relations Program, National University of Malaysia (UKM) Description:In the 1980s, the United States first engaged the DPRK through the “Modest Initiative”, while simultaneously confronting North Korea over its nuclear development program. Since then, U.S.-DPRK relations have had their ups and downs and questions still remain regarding how best to manage North Korean nuclear, missile, and military provocations and which is the right approach to…

In 1685, a Persian embassy from the Safavid Empire (Iran) embarked upon a journey across the Indian Ocean to Siam (Thailand). A relic of this journey is the diplomatic account the Safīna-i Sulaimānī – the Ship of Sulaimān – written by the scribe of the Persian envoy. On the basis of this primary Persian source and other materials, Dr. Anahita Arian unsettles in this talk the conventional and Eurocentric narratives about the history of international relations in which Europe is routinely identified as the most powerful center and agent of the world economy, and as…