Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine a Year After: Impact on the Korean Peninsula and its Vicinity? 

EAI Distinguished Public Lecture on Zoom
Organised by East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore
Presented by Korea Centre, EAI
0:00:00
0:00:14 - Introduction by Prof Bert Hofman
0:02:27 - Lecture by Mr Bilahari Kausikan
0:28:23 - Q & A
Topic:
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine a Year After: Impact on the Korean Peninsula and its Vicinity?
Speaker:
Mr Bilahari Kausikan
Chairman, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore
Abstract:
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has great implications across a range of issues for the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia as a whole. The key questions centre around ‘what lessons, if any, did the leaders of North Korea and China take from the conflict?” There is no way of answering this definitively, but on it rests the stability not just of the Korean Peninsula, but the broader region.
About the Speaker:
Bilahari Kausikan is currently Chairman of the Middle East Institute, an autonomous institute of the National University of Singapore. He has spent his entire career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During his 37 years in the Ministry, he served in a variety of appointments at home and abroad, including as Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, and as the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry. Raffles Institution, the University of Singapore and Columbia University in New York all attempted to educate him.
About the Moderator:
Prof Bert Hofman, a Dutch national, is Director of the East Asian Institute at NUS and Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Before joining NUS, he was with the World Bank for 27 years, 22 of which in Asia, and 12 of which on China. Prof Hofman was the World Bank Country Director for China 2014-2019, the Country Economist 2004-2008, and the Chief Economist for the World Bank in the East Asia and Pacific region 2011-2014. He also worked on Indonesia, the Philippines, Korea and Mongolia. Before joining the World Bank, Prof Hofman worked at the Kiel Institute of World Economics, The OECD and NMB Bank (Now ING). He has extensive experience in advising governments around the region on a wide range of development issues, and published on fiscal policy, debt issues, and China’s and Indonesia’s recent economic history.
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