Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
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For support of a forum on Indo-Pacific peace and security cooperation
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The growing U.S.-China rivalry has spurred zero-sum thinking in capitals across the Indo-Pacific, threatening peace and stability in the region. Creating an affirmative agenda rooted in common interests among the region’s most powerful nations is an important step in managing tensions driven by mistrust. Toward this end, the Mansfield-China Institute of International Studies Forum will build on its existing work on climate and energy cooperation among the United States, China, and Japan to examine the issues of rising sea levels and air pollution. In a series of trilateral unofficial dialogues, policy and subject experts from each country will identify areas of common ground to advance inter-governmental cooperation and help mitigate rising geopolitical challenges.
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For support of a forum on Indo-Pacific peace and security cooperation
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The growing U.S.-China rivalry threatens peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region with zero-sum thinking influencing decision-making in capitals from the Indian subcontinent to the South Pacific. The competition between the United States and China is particularly pronounced in Southeast Asia, where economic opportunities are interwoven with territorial disputes, transnational challenges such as pandemics and climate change, and weak governance.Building on the existing, Corporation-supported, Mansfield-China Institute of International Studies Forum, the Mansfield Foundation will lead a series of Track II dialoguesinvolving the United States,China, Japan, and variousSoutheast Asian countries to identify areas of common ground on clean energy and climate change to advance inter-governmental cooperation and mitigate rising geopolitical challenges.
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For a project to host forums on key issues in Northeast Asia region
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
51 months
Description
The Mike and Maureen Mansfield Foundation proposes three Track II dialogues to bring key policy voices together around issues of importance to the United States, China, and Japan. Each Track II will address a different topic but all will focus on areas where cooperation is believed to be possible as a springboard to discussion about more contentious issues. The first day of the Track II dialogues will deal with issues such as cooperation on nuclear and renewable energy as a means of building rapport and establishing problem-solving networks in the participating countries. The second day, will tackle more challenging matters, such as North Korea and growing tensions in the South and East China Seas. The project’s ultimate objective is to utilize the momentum and goodwill developed through the networks to find common ground in addressing issues of relevance to regional peace and security.
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For a forum on Northeast Asia peace, security, and cooperation
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The Mansfield Foundation will host a forum among experts from the United States, Japan, and China on cooperative approaches to shared challenges. Held in partnership with the China Institute for International Studies (CIIS)—the think tank of China’s Foreign Ministry—the forum will focus on regional nuclear security and climate to establish lines of communication among the participants, build confidence, and develop a degree of consensus on issues that are susceptible to cooperative approaches before moving to more contentious challenges, such as North Korea’s nuclear program. After the forum, the Mansfield Foundation will publish and disseminate in the three countries’ capitals a concise policy-oriented document that will highlight the significance and the key findings of the discussions.
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For U.S.-Japan Nuclear Working Group and Japan Outreach Meetings
Date
Jun. 06, 2013
Duration
10 months
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Toward a conference on the foreign policy relationship between the U.S. and China
Date
Jun. 14, 2007
Duration
5 months