Can ASEAN withstand great power rivalry?

Five-University Research Collaboration on East Asia Security Cooperation: "Can ASEAN withstand great power rivalry?"

ASEAN as an organisation has made it a point to reach out to and engage external great powers such as Japan, China and the US through its various partnership agreements. As these major players now seek to up their stakes in the region, will ASEAN be compelled to choose sides or can it retain its official impartiality? What role does the organisation have in managing great power relations in the region? How do Five-University network partner institutions see their respective nations' engagement with ASEAN developing? Will ASEAN be up to the task or will its shortcomings be highlighted once again?

This session is part of the Five-University Research Collaboration on East Asia Security Cooperation, a sustained discussion concerning East Asian security cooperation and regional governance among scholars and students from five universities: Peking University, Princeton University, Korea University, National University of Singapore and the University of Tokyo. This research collaboration is the first US-East Asian inter-university research network of its kind.

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Date: Friday, 13 December 2013
Time: 9:00am--11:00am

Panellists:
- Professor Sung-han Kim
Acting Director, Ilmin International Relations Institute & Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University

- Professor Jia Qingguo
Professor and Associate Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University

- Professor John Ikenberry
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

- Professor Kiichi Fujiwara
Professor of International Politics, the University of Tokyo

- Professor Kanti Prasad Bajpai
Vice-Dean (Research) and Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Chair: Prof. Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of LKY School