NBR Summer Seminar

Application is now open for 2024.

Learn more and submit applications by June 2, 2024.


China poses an unprecedented challenge for the United States and the rules-based liberal international order. The challenge spans multiple dimensions from human rights, military, economics, and technology to global governance. To better understand China and formulate effective policy, the United States needs a new generation of experts and policymakers who possess a deep understanding of China’s challenge to the United States and how the United States can address this. To train the next generation of policy leaders, the National Bureau of Asian Research launched the Ellings-Korduba Research Fellowship Program and organized the NBR Summer Seminar.

Past NBR Summer Seminars

NBR Summer Seminar 2023

NBR Summer Seminar 2022

NBR Summer Seminar 2021

Site visits at previous Summer Seminars have included:
Consulate General of Japan in Seattle

Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Seattle

Joint Base Lewis-McChord

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Seattle

Course instructor:
Rich Ellings, President Emeritus of the National Bureau of Asian Research

Guest lecturers at previous Summer Seminars have included:
Daniel Chen, Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Seattle

Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute

Aaron Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University

Admiral Jonathan Greenert, U.S. Navy (ret.); John M. Shalikashvili Chair

Lieutenant General Charles Hooper, U.S. Army (ret.); Cohen Group

Inagaki Hisao, Consul General of Japan in Seattle

Roy Kamphausen, President of the National Bureau of Asian Research

William C. McCahill, U.S. Department of State (ret.); Member of the Board of Advisors at the National Bureau of Asian Research

Kenneth Pyle, Founding President of the National Bureau of Asian Research; University of Washington Professor Emeritus

Nadège Rolland, Distinguished Fellow, China Studies, at the National Bureau of Asian Research

Seo Eun-ji, Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Seattle

Robert Sutter, Professor of Practice of International Affairs at the Elliott School of George Washington University

Ashley Tellis, Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, NBR Counselor

If you have any questions about the NBR Summer Seminar in 2023, please contact [email protected].