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Cambridge - Korea Foundation Special Seminar Series: Frank Jannuzi

Title: The US-Japan-ROK Triangle: Lessons from Pythagoras

Speaker: Frank Jannuzi (President and CEO, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation)

Date and Time: 16 June 2025, 5pm - 6.30pm

Venue: Room 8/9, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge 

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Talk Summary

The Camp David Accords lay the foundation for a long-overdue alignment of the United States, Japan, and South Korea as they each grapple with the implications of China's rise, emerging threats to regional peace and security, and growing challenges to the liberal democratic order.

Leadership Changes in Washington and Seoul call into question the stability of the strategic triangle, which depends upon mitigating historical tensions and pursuing a forward-looking shared vision for the Indo-Pacific rooted in open markets, common efforts to preserve the global commons, and adherence to liberal constitutional norms.

The Security and Economic geometry of the Indo-Pacific is likely to remain fluid for some time, as the alignment orchestrated by President Biden and the axis of convenience established by President Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jongun are less solid than they appear.

About the Speaker

Frank Jannuzi joined the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation as President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2014. He previously served as Deputy Executive Director (Advocacy, Policy and Research) at Amnesty International, USA. There he shaped and promoted legislation and policies to advance universal human rights, protect individuals and communities at risk, and free prisoners of conscience.

From 1997-2012 Mr. Jannuzi was Policy Director, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he advised Committee Chairmen Joseph Biden and John Kerry on a range of security, political, economic, and human rights issues pertaining to U.S. relations with East Asia. During his tenure with the Foreign Relations Committee, he also was a Hitachi Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2006-2007, serving as a visiting lecturer at Keio University and a visiting scholar at the Institute of International Policy Studies in Tokyo. Early in his career, he served for nine years as an analyst in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

Mr. Jannuzi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and Master in Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has traveled throughout Asia and has written extensively on East Asia policy issues, including U.S. relations with Japan, China, and North Korea. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, Dr. Jennifer Martin, and their two daughters Zoe and Camille.

This seminar is part of Cambridge - Korea Foundation Special Seminar Series, sponsored by the Korea Foundation.