CSIS Lecture Series
on
Regional Dynamics
The Indo-Pacific Idea:
Myth and Reality
Mon Oct 22 13:30 - 15:30
CSIS Lecture Series on Regional Dynamics
The Indo-Pacific Idea: Myth and Reality
Speaker
Amitav Acharya
UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance
School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC
While the idea of an Indo-Pacific region has received a great deal of attention, there remains much uncertainty about how it might evolve and affect the existing regional architecture. This seminar will discuss competing conceptions of the Indo-Pacific, as well as issues of regional coherence, capacity, leadership and institutional architecture that will determine its success or failure. Do existing regional institutions such as ASEAN, SAARC and EAS risk being marginalized, or can they adapt to the Indo-Pacific idea? Is the region facing an era of unmitigated great power rivalry or a Great Power management system based on elements of competition and accommodation?
About the Lecture Series
CSIS Lecture Series on Regional Dynamics is one of the latest initiatives by CSIS’ recently reinvigorated Department of International Relations. This is a regular event that aims to broaden interests amongst policy makers, intellectuals and diplomatic community for the rapidly evolving dynamics in East Asia, as well as to generate critical yet constructive policy debates on prominent issues in the region. Our current focus on Regional Dynamics is an expanded version from our earlier China Study Group program.
Previous distinguished speakers include: Dato’ Saifuddin Abdullah (Malaysia’s Foreign Minister), Mark Field (United Kingdom’s Minister for Asia & the Pacific), Huang Xilian (Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN), Alexander A. Ivanov (Russian Ambassador to ASEAN), Bill Hayton (Asia Program of Chatham House), Yan Xuetong (Tsinghua University), and David Shambaugh (George Washington University).
About the Speaker
Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. He was the inaugural Boeing Company Chair in International Relations at the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University during 2016-18. He has held fellowships at Harvard’s Asia Center and John F. Kennedy School of Government, and was elected to the Christensen Fellowship at Oxford.
His recent books include Constructing Global Order (Cambridge, 2018), The End of American World Order (Polity, 2014, 2018), and East of India, South of China: Sino-Indian Encounters in Southeast Asia (Oxford 2017). He is the first non-Western scholar to be elected as President of the International Studies Association (ISA), the largest and most influential global network in international studies. He received two Distinguished Scholar Awards from the ISA, one in 2015 from its Global South Caucus for his contribution to non-Western IR theory and “inclusion” in international studies, and another in 2018 from ISA’s International Organization Section that recognizes “scholars of exceptional merit…whose influence, intellectual works and mentorship will likely continue to impact the field for years to come”.
Venue: CSIS Auditorium
RSVP; csis@csis.or.id
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