ASEAN and Asian Security in the Age of Pandemics / Amitav ACHARYA
Asia’s Post-Pandemic Order and Integration: Outlook of ASEAN and the Indo-Pacific at Crossroads
ASEAN and Asian Security in the Age of Pandemics
Amitav ACHARYA (School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C)
This presentation will assess the impact of COVID-19 on US-China competition, China-ASEAN relations, and ASEAN centrality in the regional architecture of Indo-Pacific. While the pandemic has far-reaching effects on Asia, it is too early to assess it long-term effects. The pandemic might accelerate the rise of Asia, but fears of a Chinese hegemony are far-fetched, as China faces distrust and pushback on its own pandemic diplomacy.
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Session 2 / Southeast Asia between India and China : Reimagining Asia and Regional Indo-Pacific Order
Chair : Prof Surichai WUN’GAEO, Professor Emeritus (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)
The Indo-Pacific area with important economic and cultural interactions between the two oceans go back millennia, long before the colonial era. Against tremendous changes in the post-colonial and –Cold War periods, the late 20th century’s debate has been recentered on the Asia-Pacific. And again in the early 21st century, the Indo-Pacific has also added as a new framework for regional order. The increasing geographical connection of East and Southeast Asia to South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, has helped to advance the Indo-Pacific as a new world’s economic and strategic concept. This session focusses on the two Asian giants, their expanding economic capabilities and strategic interests, and on the Indo-Pacific area for their interactions. Both have increased their influence in Southeast Asia through the “Maritime Silk Road” by President Xi Jinping since 2013 and the “Act East” agenda by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It also highlights the ASEAN’s strategy to assert itself as a major actor of this new regional order.
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“Asia’s Post-Pandemic Order and Integration : Outlook of ASEAN and the Indo-Pacific at Crossroads” is an international conference organized by The Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC-CNRS) with the ASEAN Studies Center (Chulalongkorn University) in Bangkok, and the ASEAN-India Centre (AIC), RIS in New Delhi.
8-9 July 2021 - Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
