Does the United States Have a Grand Strategy in Asia?
Michael Jonathan Green is senior vice president for Asia and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and an associate professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He served on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) from 2001 through 2005, first as director for Asian affairs, with responsibility for Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, and then as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asia, with responsibility for East Asia and South Asia.
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Deuxième conte pour enfants de moins de trois ans by Eugène Ionesco. This text represents a seemingly ordinary situation in a day of a French family. The father and his daughter, Josette, are at home, while the mother is away. The father has indulged in too much food and drinks and is feeling sick. Josette inquires about the mother's absence and engages in an elaborate, jovial game of hide-and-seek with the father. Their dialogue and playful interaction, filled with tension and misunderstandings, bare characteristics of Ionesco's theater of the absurd.
Performed by Lara Feyza Fasbender (Josette 1), Isaac Chartrand Meyer (Father 1), Hanzhuo (Nancy) Zhang (narrator 1), Sara Imane Dixon (narrator 2), Diana Chiu (Josette 2), Andrew Quoc-Huy Tran (Father 2), Katherine Elizabeth Irwin (Mother)
UC Berkeley's Christopher Day gives an entertaining, illustrated lecture of the University of Oxford's history. Until he moved to the International Programmes division of Continuing Education in 2006, Day was director of Studies for Local History with special responsibility for the master's program, which is designed to train students in sources and methods to equip them to carry out research for themselves. He continues to supervise master's and doctoral students. Learn more about the Oxford Berkeley Program at extension.berkeley.edu/oxford.