CHINA-ASEAN-USA: COOPERATION OR COMPETITION?

Diplomatic interactions between China, ASEAN, and the United States are becoming more frequent, more complex, and more consequential. The annual US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue is just one of some fifty platforms—dialogues, forums, working groups—where Beijing and Washington meet. The scope and implications of all this activity extend well beyond East Asia and the Pacific Ocean to encompass South Asia, Eurasia, and the Indian and Arctic Oceans.

Yet beneath all this diplomacy, key questions persist: How peaceful will China’s rise turn out to be? Will China and the US collide? Is China destined to become East Asia’s hegemon? As the Middle East heats up, will Obama reverse his “pivot” toward Asia? What are the security implications of economic arrangements such as the ASEAN-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the US-sponsored Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? And how are Europe, Russia, India, Japan, Korea, and Australia implicated in the answers to these questions?  

Professor Donald Emmerson is a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and Director of the University’s Southeast Asian Forum. He holds a PhD in political science from Yale. He has written numerous books and scholarly articles on East and Southeast Asia, including the books Hard Choices: Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia; Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam; and Indonesia Beyond Suharto: Polity, Economy, Society, Transition (Asia & the Pacific). His research interests include Southeast Asia, ASEAN, Indonesia, China, regionalism, Islamism, democracy and U.S. foreign policy - Please find attached Donald Emmerson’s CV.

Time and place:

Tuesday 8, October 2013, 15.00-16.30
CBS, Kilevej 14 (Kilen), Room Ks48

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This lecture is organized by Asia Research Centre, CBS.