NIDS ASEAN Workshop 2025

NIDS ASEAN Workshop 2025

January 23, 2025
“New Strategies in Southeast Asia?”

Session 1 (10:00~12:00 JST):
“Strategies from ASEAN and U.S. Perspectives”

Opening Remarks

Mr. WAKAMIYA Kenji (Senior Advisor to the Minister of Defense)

Presentations

Dr. Cheng-Chwee Kuik (Professor, National University of Malaysia)
“Debating Hedging: Between Strategy and Instinctive Reasoning”

Dr. Alice Ba (Professor, University of Delaware)
“Multi-Minilateral Engagements Hegemony Ends: The United States and ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific”

Discussant

Dr. ISHIHARA Yusuke (Senior Fellow, Policy Studies Department, NIDS)

Session 2 (13:30~15:30 JST)
“China Approaches of Indonesia and the Philippines”

Presentations

Mr. Emirza Adi Syailendra (PhD Candidate, Australian National University)
“Negotiating Redlines: Indonesia’s Approach to Managing China’s Assertiveness in the South China Sea”

Dr. Aries A. Arugay (Professor, University of the Philippines Diliman)
“The Evolving Indo-Pacific Strategy of the Philippines: Implications for ASEAN”

Discussant

Dr. SHOJI Tomotaka (Director, Regional Studies Department, NIDS)

Closing Remarks

MG HASHIZUME Yoshitomo (Vice President, NIDS)


Zoom Webinar, English-Japanese simultaneous interpretation is available

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