研究成果-shanghai institutes for international studies

DATE：: 2015-03-29 ~ 2015-03-29
VENUE：
Place：: ICC, Level 1, Dong Yu Grand Ballroom D

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SIIS Is to Chair the Panel of “Asian-Pacific Security Architecture” under the Framework of BFA 2015

Introduction

Asian-Pacific region has become the most dynamic one in world economy, and is playing an ever-increasingly important role in global order. However, due to historic and standing conflicts of interests, understanding and cooperation on security within the region has been lagged well behind regional economic integration. Recently, emerging nonconventional security challenges and existent territorial disputes pose threats of varying magnitudes to the peace and stability of this region, harm mutual trust between nations in the area and hinder overall development and cooperation in Asia. What’s unfolding in both Asia and Asian-Pacific area is evident enough that traditional Asian security arrangements descending from the Cold War Ear are no longer able to address effectively either conventional or nonconventional security issues frequently inflicting regional countries. In recent years, calls for a new type of security mechanism better constructed and more adaptive to environment have become more intense. In 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed at CICA Shanghai Summit a new concept of Asian Security that stresses common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security to tackle rising challenges facing the region and advocated all parties concerned to build upon the new concept a novel security framework for Asian-Pacific region. This initiative lent a guiding principle to concrete cooperation among regional countries in maintaining security and constructing new security mechanism for Asian-Pacific region. It’s too often easier perceived than done. However there is still a long way ahead to generate consensus, solve existent conflicts, settle standing disputes before we can jointly push forward the construction of security mechanism with Asian characteristics. In approaching this end, it’s particularly important for intelligentsia and political elites from all countries concerned to fully exchange their ideas and opinions through public diplomacy channels. Given this, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) accepted the task to chair a security panel of BFA 2015 with the title of “Transcending the Cold-War Mentality: A Fresh Outlook on Security Architecture in the Asia Pacific”. The panel has confirmed attendance of Mr. Bob Hawke, former prime minister of Australia and other world renowned scholars and former statesmen from Malaysia, Russia, Canada and China, etc, and will conduct in-depth dialogues around the central issue: how to deepen security cooperation and achieve a win-win situation for Asia. We are confident that the fruits these dialogues bear will certainly play a positive role in future Asian security architecture building. As one of the most influential think tanks in China, SIIS has dedicated the past 50 odd years to the better understanding and knowledge of China by foreign scholars across the globe, and the realization of Chinese overall foreign strategy via public diplomacy channels. Together with Boao Forum for Asia, SIIS is going to cosponsor this panel which we believe will lead to further discussion about security cooperation in Asia, and offer more solutions to current Asian security issues.

Agenda

March 29 09:00 - 10:30

Transcending the Cold-War Mentality: A Fresh Outlook on Security Architecture in the Asia Pacific

Moderator

- Dongxiao CHEN, President, Shanghai Institute for International Studies

Panelists

HAWKE, BOB Former Prime Minister, Australia

The Hon Bob Hawke was born in South Australia in 1929. After completing his education at the University of Western Australia (degrees of Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts Economics), he studied at Oxford University under Rhodes Scholarship in 1953 – 1955, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Letters. In 1956 he returned to Australia to take up a research scholarship at the Australian National University, and in 1958 became Research Officer and Advocate with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). He was ACTU President from 1970-1980. In 1980 he was elected to the Federal Parliament, and in February 1983 became the Leader of the Opposition. He led the Labor Party to victory in the general election in March 1983 and, in winning three successive elections, became Australia’s longest serving Labor Prime Minister. He ceased to be Prime Minister in December 1991 and resigned from the Parliament in February 1992. His post-parliamentary career has included Adjunct Professor in the Research Schools of Pacific Studies and Social Sciences at the Australian National University; Honorary Visiting Professor in Industrial Relations at the University of Sydney and Membership of the Advisory Council of the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is an Honorary Fellow at the University College of Oxford and holds honorary degrees from the University of Western Australia, Nanjing University of China, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the University of New South Wales; the University of South Australia; Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law, Oxford University and an Hon Doctorate of Humanities, Rikkyo University, Tokyo (2003). Current honorary positions include: Member of the Board of Directors of the Boao Forum for Asia; Chairman, The Hawke Research Institute Advisory Board at the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, University of South Australia; Chairman of the Committee of Experts on Membership of the Education International; Chairman, Trade Union Education Foundation; Member of the Advisory Board, Deliberative Issues Australia; and Patron of Indigenous Engineering Aid.

WANG Yingfan Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, China

Wang Yingfan was born in the Inner-Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China in April 1942. He graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. He held posts in the Chinese embassies of Ghana and the U.K., and he served as ambassador to the Philippines until 1990. Wang was appointed vice-minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1995, and he served as Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations from 2000 to 2003. He was Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese National People's Congress from 2003 to 2008. He was appointed special envoy of Asian Affairs in 2013.

Paul Evans CV Professor of Asian and trans-Pacific international relations at the University of British Columbia.

Educated in Canada, he has had full-time academic appointments at York University and UBC, visiting appointments at Harvard University, Hong Kong University and Singapore Management University, and visiting fellowships at several universities and research institutes in Australia, Asia and the United States. Between 2005 and 2008 he was seconded to the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada where he served as Co-CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee. He is presently a member of the ASEAN Regional Forum's Experts and Eminent Persons Group, was a co-founder of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific and the Canadian Consortium on Human Security, and is on the editorial boards of the Pacific Review, the Chinese Journal of International Politics, and the Chinese Quarterly of Strategic Studies.

Hugh White CV Professor of Strategic Studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.

Before this he held senior official positions in the Australian Government. 1985-1991 Senior Adviser to Defence Minister and Prime Minister; 1995-2000 Deputy Secretary for Strategy, Department of Defence; 2001-2004 Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. His recent publications include Power Shift: Australia’s future between Washington and Beijing, [2010] and The China Choice: Why America should share power,[2012].

TAN SRI RASTAM MOHD ISA Chairman and Chief Executive, the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia;Chairman, the Malaysian National Committee for the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC);Chairman, the Malaysian National Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP)

Tan Sri Rastam Mohd Isa was appointed Chairman of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia on 9 January 2015. Since 1 January 2014, he has also served as Chief Executive of ISIS Malaysia. He holds a Bachelor of Social Science (Hons) degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia, a Master of Arts degree in International Relations and Strategic Studies from the University of Lancaster and a Certificate of Diplomacy from the University of Oxford. Tan Sri Rastam spent more than 36 years in the Malaysian diplomatic service. He served in various capacities at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Malaysian diplomatic missions abroad, including as High Commissioner of Malaysia to Pakistan, Ambassador of Malaysia to Bosnia Herzegovina, Ambassador of Malaysia to the Republic of Indonesia and Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the United Nations in New York. He was Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 8 January 2006 until he officially retired from public service on 2 September 2010. Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive of ISIS Malaysia, he was Advisor at the Chief Minister’s Department in Sarawak. He serves as chairman of the board of directors of one Malaysian public listed company. He also sits as director on the board of two other companies. Tan Sri Rastam has received Federal and State awards and decorations namely, the Panglima Setia Mahkota (PSM), SSAP, PJN, SIMP, DIMP, KMN and AMN. He is also a recipient of the DSLJ from His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei Darussalam. He is married to Puan Sri Norizan Sulaiman. They have three children.

TIMOFEY V. BORDACHEV Director, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE;Chief, research programs of Council on Foreign and Defence Policy (CFDF);Head, the Expert group of Valdai International Discussion Club;Supervisor, «European studies», «International relations».

The leading Russian expert on Russia- EU relations. Born on January, 28th, 1973. In 1995 finished with distinction Department of History of the St.-Petersburg State University. In 1997 received a degree of the master of the European policy and administration in College of Europe in Brugge (Belgium). In 1998 defended the PhD's thesis at the St.-Petersburg State University. From 1998 to 2001 – junior, senior and then leading research associate at institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In the period of 1998-2003 involved in Carnegie Moscow Center activity as Executive Secretary in “Pro et Contra” magazine. From 2003 till 2007 is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief in the ‘Russia in Global Affairs’ magazine. From 2008 till today is the Member of the Valdai Discussion Club, taking active part in Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russian Relations and Russian-Chinese Section. Is the co-author of reports “Toward the Great Ocean, or the New Globalization of Russia” and “Toward the Great Ocean—2, or Russia’s Breakthrough to Asia” and is currently working with Dr. Karaganov on the new report on Russian policy towards Asia and Eurasia “Towards the Great Ocean-3”.