One of our main activities is organising and hosting Luncheon Briefings on pertinent topics of EU-Asia relations. Beginning with an informal lunch, the Briefings usually last for 1.5 hours, including questions.

Attendees include EIAS members and other interested parties.

Experts wishing to discuss a possible topic for a Lucheon Briefing are invited to contact EIAS Direct Dr Willem van der Geest.

Outlook and Perspectives for Taiwan
26 October, 2006 from 13h00 – 14h30

Speakers: Prof. June Teufel-Dreyer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami
Dr. Gary J. Schmitt, Director of the American Enterprise Institute's Program on Advanced Strategic Studies
Chair: Dr Willem van der Geest, Director, European Institute for Asian Studies

Listen to an audio interview with the speakers (mp3)

The European Institute for Asian Studies is honoured to welcome Prof. June Teufel-Dreyer and Dr. Gary J. Schmitt to its premises to engage EU officials and analysts in a debate on the EU’s 'One China Policy', in the broader context of China’s political and economic development and its increasing economic and military capabilities. Under what circumstances would EU Member States re-assess their policy-approaches towards Taiwan? The speakers are renowned scholars who have publicly expressed their intellectual support for Taiwan and the importance of ensuring the present ‘status quo’.

Prof. June Teufel-Dreyer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. Professor Dreyer has done field research in China, Taiwan and Japan and served as Chief Far East Specialist for the Library of Congress and as Asia Advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations. She has published numerous books and articles on diverse topics such as ethnic minorities in China, the Chinese military and Asia-Pacific security issues.  Prof. Dreyer served on the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission from 2001 through 2005.  Prof. Dreyer is a graduate from Wellesley College, holds a Master’s Degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard, as well as a joint Ph.D. in Government and East Asian Studies from Harvard. 

Dr. Gary J. Schmitt is Director of the American Enterprise Institute's Program on Advanced Strategic Studies.  He formerly served at the Project for a New American Century, and served as staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and head of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Dr. Schmitt has written extensively on Taiwan.  Dr. Schmitt is a graduate of the University of Dallas and holds a PhD of the University of Chicago.

The scholars were introduced by Prof. Wen-yen Chen, currently Executive Director of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs and previously a professor of Psychology in Washington.  He has been involved in the Taiwan democratisation movement since 1979.

Listen to an audio interview with the speakers (mp3)