BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MP-IDSA - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://idsa.in X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MP-IDSA REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0530 TZOFFSETTO:+0530 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20100101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20110216T053000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20110218T053000 DTSTAMP:20261105T113236 CREATED:20231223T125723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250120T223001Z UID:62795-1297834200-1298007000@idsa.in SUMMARY:13th Asian Security Conference on "Towards A New Asian Order" DESCRIPTION:Concept Note\n\n\nThe onset of the ‘Asian Century’ requires fresh thinking on regional architectures in Asia. Will these be able to deliver on the promise of the future? What needs to be done\, and can be done\, to enable this? Given the conflictual history attending the rise of powers in Europe\, the timely development of pan-Asian frameworks could help in constructing a different future. The conference aims to examine efficacy of existing structures and probe Asian thinking on making the future benign for Asia and the world. The Conference would be a useful step in conceptualising a new pan Asian order\, even as it\, in the main\, surveys existing capacities against possibilities. The aim is to visualise a pan-Asian framework for addressing security challenges and for facilitating cooperation. \n The Conference is designed to address both traditional and non-traditional security issues in their political\, social and economic dimensions. It does so in five subthemes. The first day will be devoted to geopolitical dynamics and associated traditional security issues. The second day will focus on geo-economics and non-traditional security themes. On the last day\, an attempt will be made to ‘discover’ an ‘Asian Way’\, drawing on Asian cultures and traditions while keeping world order imperatives in mind. The subthemes are \n\n Subtheme 1: The Geopolitics of Asia \n Subtheme 2: Traditional Security Challenges \n Subtheme 3: Globalization and the Rise of Asia \n Subtheme 4: Non-traditional Security Challenges \n Subtheme 5: Managing the Challenges \n\nThe key questions to form the backdrop of particular sessions are: \n\n What are the implications of rising powers in Asia for the powers themselves\, for external powers and for the region? \nHow can the fruits of the economic miracles in Asia be preserved? \nWhat are the variants if any to the traditional security paradigm? \nCan cooperative security deliver on non-traditional security challenges? \nIs it premature to think of ‘One Asia’?\n\n A detailed look at Asia and its potentiality will be done in five separate sessions. \n Subtheme 1: The Geopolitics of Asia \nAsian and External powers \n Asia\, comprising as it does\, the regions of West Asia\, Central Asia\, South Asia\, South East Asia and East Asia\, is at the centre stage of global events and at the fulcrum of the global power shift. A number of issue require attention: implications of the rise of China and India; enduring conflicts in West Asia; the continuing military entanglements of the US; access and control of resources of Central Asia; expansion of security regimes in Asia-Pacific. The questions for this subtheme are: \n\nCan the rise of Asian powers continue as ‘benign’ and ‘peaceful’?\nWhat are the prospects of cooperation and conflict?\nCan the current Asian architectures manage the future?\nWhat is the status and role of US\, Russia and Australia as ‘Asian powers’?\nHow can existing faultlines be managed\n\nSubtheme 2: Traditional Security Challenges\n Nuclear Proliferation\, Terrorism\, Maritime Security \n The maturing strictures against aggression\, nuclear backdrop to conflicts between major powers\, lethality and costs of modern weapons\, and the spread of globalisation have made military power usable mostly for purposes of deterrence. Threats exist less from direct military confrontations between states than from non-state actors acting either autonomously or under state sponsorship. The traditional security domain has changed. Asia\, therefore\, needs to take note and reshape its military profile accordingly. The questions for this session are: \n\nHow serious and urgent are traditional ‘threats’? \nWhat is the scope for cooperative security?\nWhat are the determinants of ‘freedom of the seas’?\nWhat is the scope for military diplomacy\, engagement and confidence building?\nWhat are prospects for arms control and disarmament regimes?\nWhat is the continuing utility and future of nuclear weapons in Asia?\n\n Subtheme 3: Globalization and the Rise of Asia Asia and the World Economy \n Can one visualise a non-realist future for Asia\, one based on growing interdependence? The capitalist model of consumption has its perils in being unsustainable\, unless tempered by Asian traditions of abnegation. The two continent-sized states\, China and India\, are justifiably catering to their growing populations. However\, they have to face up to the limits of growth. Competition for access to resources and markets in Asia and elsewhere has the potential to disrupt relationships. The recent economic shocks indicate inherent fragility of the global economic order. Can important lessons in growth with equity be learnt from the ‘Asian Tigers’? The session will attempt answer the following: \n\nHow central is China’s economic growth the key to Asia’s economic future?\nWhat are the roles of the Chinese\, Indian and Japanese economies in the Asian and global economic order?\nCan the US-Chinese economic relationship be sustained indefintely?\nWhat is the role of regional organisations in the evolving Asian economic order?\nHow can Asia cope with future economic crises?\n\nSubtheme 4: Non-traditional Security ChallengesThe Asian Commons\, Water\, Energy\, Technological Frontiers\, Democratisation \n Non-traditional security thinking is displacing traditional modes given that these challenges are both ubiquitous and more demanding. They have the potential to both mitigate and aggravate depending on how they are approached. Given population densities\, social disparities\, expanding urban clusters and the fragility of an environment under assault from economic growth\, the future could be very bleak. The opportunity for turning it around through enlightened moderation of aspirations\, application of technology\, creating responsive policing organisations and by democratisation\, is now. The conference will dwell on such issues as: \n\nHow can the Himalayan ecosystem be managed better?\nWhat are ‘best practices’ in managing water conflicts?\nIs there a pan Asian solution to future energy security?\nWhat contribution can an Asian regional architecture make?\nHow can technology be harnessed for the new Asian century?\nWhat is the future of democracy and democratisation in Asia?\n\n Subtheme 5: Managing the ChallengesRegional Groupings\, Intra- and Inter-Regional Linkages \n Visualising a benign future helps in the creation of structures to bring about more cooperation in future. The ‘Asian’ input\, relying on a cultural legacy of centuries\, needs expansion. The continent currently views itself in multiple ‘regions’ that have regional structures of varying efficacy to integrate and mellow nationalisms. It is an idea only geographically. In such a circumstance\, would broaching a pan Asian concept be premature? The following questions will animate this session: \n\nIs it possible to draw a normative ‘Asian Way’ from Asian cultural streams?\nWhat can be learnt from the European experience of political\, military and economic integration? \nIs there a case for evolving a pan-Asian concept?\nIs a pan Asian political and economic order discernible?\nWhat are the prospects for greater economic integration across Asia?\nHow can existing structures be enhanced?\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme Schedule\n\n\nDay 1 \n 16 February 2011\n 0915-1000h: Registration \n1000-1400hSession 1: The Geopolitics of Asia\n Chairperson – Mr. Siddharth Varadarajan \n 1000-1100 (First half) \n\nVincent Wang – The Rise of China\, the Rise of India\, and the Changing Geopolitics of Asia\nMasako Ikegami – Challenges of Rising China: A New Cold War or Neo-Imperialism? \n\n1100-1200h Keynote Session\n 1100h-1105h – Welcome of Hon’ble Minister of Defence\, Shri AK Antony\n 1105-1110h – Welcome address by DG\, IDSA\, Mr. NS Sisodia\n 1110-1125h – Inaugural Address by Hon’ble Minister of Defence and President\, IDSA\, Shri AK Antony\n 1125-1130h – Vote of Thanks by Dr. Arvind Gupta\, Lal Bahadur Shastri Chair\, IDSA\n 1130h-1200h – Tea \n1200-1400 Session 1 continues \n\nBakhtier Khakimov – Building of a new architecture of security and cooperation in Asia: Russian vision\nMumin Chen – Realist and Pragmatic Elements in China’s Grand Strategy: Assessments of China’s Relations with Japan\, Taiwan\, and India\nPrakash Menon – Indo-Pak relations and the Balance of Emotions\n\n 1300h-1400h – Discussion/Q&A \n 1400h-1500h – Lunch \n1500h-1730hSession 2: Traditional Security Challenges\n Chairperson – Lt Gen (Retd) S Nambiar \n\nPaul Salem – Building Cooperation in West Asia (On Skype)\nJoseph Liow – The East Asia Summit and the Security Architecture in the Asia-Pacific\nTetsuo Kotani – Maritime Security in Asia\n V Gundlupet – Nuclear Threats and Diplomacy: An Analysis of Indian\, Pakistani and Chinese Use of Nuclear Threats\nSaleem Shahzad – Lessons from Pakistan’s Counter -terrorism Policy for Asia\n\n 1645h-1730h – Discussion/Q&A (Tea will be available in foyer 1630h-1700h) \n\nDay 2 \n 17 February 2011\n0930h-1300hSession 3: Globalization and the Rise of Asia\n Chairperson – Dr. Sanjaya Baru \n\nNiklas Swanström – Globalization and the rise of Asia \nSean M. Lynn-Jones – Globalization and Asian Security: Promise or Peril?\nSumit Ganguly – The Obama Administration and South Asia\nZhang Zhenjiang – West European Integration and East Asian Regionalism: What we can learn and what we cannot learn?\nArshin Adib-Moghaddam – Iranian-American relations and the future security architecture in western Asia\nAtul Aneja – Implications of Developments in the Arab World\n\n 1130-1145h – Tea \n 1145-1300h – Discussion/Q&A \n 1300h-1400h – Lunch \n1400h-1715hSession 4: Non-traditional Security Challenges\n Chairperson – Dr. Radha Kumar \n\nSyed Iqbal Hasnain – The Geopolitics of Himalayan-Tibetan Glacier Melt\n Uttam Sinha – Himalayan Hydrology and the Hydropolitics \n Xia Liping – Energy security and Asian regional architecture\nTai Ming Cheung – Economics\, Security and Technology in Northeast Asia: Maneuvering Between Nationalist and Globalist Forces\nYaacov Vertzberger – Towards an Architecture of a Global Disaster-Management-Regime A Roadmap\nIqbal Singh Sevea – ‘Regulating’ Islam in the Asian State\n\n 1600-1615h Tea \n 1615h-1715h – Discussion/Q&A \n\nDay 3 \n 18 February 2011\n0930-1245hSession 5: Managing the Challenges\n Chairperson – Amb. Leela K. Ponappa \n\nRobert Art – US-China Relations and Implications for India (On Skype)\nWilliam Thompson – Long Term Asian Patterns of Conflict\nAlexander Lukin – Russia and Geopolitics of Asia\nMustafa Aydin – Developments and changes since the end of the cold war: West Asia and Central Asia\n Arvind Gupta – How India is managing its Asian Challenge\n\n 1130h-1145h – Tea\n 1145h-1255h – Discussion/Q&A \n1300h-1330hClosing Session\n Chairperson: N. S. Sisodia Closing Address – Amb. Shivshankar Menon\, NSA \n Vote of Thanks\n 1330h Group Photograph of participants\n Lunch \n\n\n\n\nConference Booklet\nRapporteurs Report URL:https://idsa.in/idsa-event/13th-asian-security-conference-on-towards-a-new-asian-order CATEGORIES:Asian Security Conference,Previous ASC,CONFERENCES ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://idsa.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/no_photo-200x150-2.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR