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The Changing Security Environment in East Asia

Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia Dr. Paul Heer will discuss the changing security environment in East Asia with Government Professor Jennifer Lind.

Tuesday, February 23, 2016
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia Dr. Paul Heer will discuss the security environment in East Asia with Government Professor Jennifer Lind. They will address how the security environment in East Asia is changing as a result of historic shifts in the balance of power--particularly the so-called 'rise' of China--and corresponding shifts in region-wide perceptions of the relative influence of China and the United States.  These shifts reflect growing regional uncertainty about both China's strategic ambitions and intentions, and the substance and sustainability of the US rebalance and commitment to East Asia.  Competing nationalisms and longstanding historical animosities are further complicating East Asian countries' efforts to address the challenges and implications of a strategic environment in transition.

 

Dr. Paul Heer is the 2015-16 Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He served from 2007 to 2015 as the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia—the senior analyst of East Asian affairs in the US Intelligence Community—in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. A career officer of the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence, he began that career in 1983 as a political and foreign policy analyst on Southeast Asia before specializing on China as an analyst and analytic manager.  He served on the staff of the President's Daily Brief, and as a member of the CIA's Senior Analytic Service and the Senior Intelligence Service.  He is a recipient of the CIA’s Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal and the DNI’s National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal.   Dr. Heer was the Visiting Intelligence Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations during 1999-2000 and was subsequently elected a Life Member of the Council.  He is also a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.  He holds a B.A. degree from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa; an M.A. in history from the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from The George Washington University.

For more information, contact:
Thomas Candon
603.646.2023

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