Chair: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Harvard University

Chair: ELIZABETH J. PERRY, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University

Panelist: MARGARITA ESTÉVEZ－ABE, Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Panelist: RIEKO KAGE, Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo

Panelist: JIYEOUN SONG, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University

Panelist: MICHAEL WITT, Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy and International Business, INSEAD

Panelist: DANIEL ALDRICH, Professor of Political Science; Director, Security and Resilience Studies Program, Northeastern University

Panelist: AMY CATALINAC, Assistant Professor of Politics, Department of Politics, New York University

Panelist: HENRY LAURENCE, Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College

Panelist: PHILLIP LIPSCY, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto

Panelist: SAADIA PEKKANEN,  Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

Panelist: KIM REIMAN, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University

Panelist: MIREYA SOLÍS, Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution