IASC

In early October 2009 I made a presentation for the International Assessment and Strategy Center (IASC), a DC-based ‘think tank’ that focuses on a variety of medium and long term international security concerns. My presentation was entitled “The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and Energy,” and discussed the current energy situation in Central Asia, SCO’s attempt to develop an “Energy Club,” and China’s rapidly developing energy needs and their environmental implications. Professor Arthur Waldron, a well-known China expert and history professor at Penn, is IASC’s vice president, and I’ve found sitting in on IASC workshops and working with their scholars over recent months to be a really fascinating — & educational! — experience.