Professional Luncheon W. R. Mead and Douglas Ramage
Six Months after September 11: The U.S. Reaction to Terror and the Southeast Asian Reaction to the U.S.

Sponsored by:

The Asia Foundation

Time:

March 12, 2002, 12:00 p.m to 2:00 p.m

Place:

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan Map

Professional Luncheon
W. R. Mead Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, New York
Douglas Ramage Representative, The Asia Foundation, Indonesia

"Can this really be the Bush administration? Since Sept. 11, we have sent troops abroad without a clear exit strategy and started nation-building in Afghanistan. Mainland China is our friend now; we are cozying up to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin." This is how U.S. foreign policy expert Walter Russell Mead summed up the U.S. reaction to
terror in the Los Angeles Times. An administration which started out wary of overseas involvements, now courts the world to forge an alliance against terror.

Mead sees four distinct schools in US foreign policy: the trade-oriented Hamiltonians, the stay-at-home Jeffersonians, the idealist Wilsonians and the populist Jacksonians. During this luncheon, Mead will put the U.S. reaction to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 into historical context.

Douglas Ramage, author and lecturer on Islam, democracy and nationalism in Indonesia, will talk about how the U.S. war on terror has become grist for the mills of President Megawati's opponents, both on the religious right and on the secular left. Ramage, however, warns against overplaying anti-Americanism.

materials:
 Profile of Douglas Ramage Representative, The Asia Foundation, Indonesia
 The U.S. Reaction to Terror and the Southeast Asian Reaction to the U.S.