The ASEAN, China, USA Triangle: Navigating in a Post-Ukraine/Russia World

SESSION 2: Geo-Political Challenges Facing ASEAN

Thursday, June 16, 2022
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM (Eastern Time)

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This event is co-sponsored by the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore

About the Event

Throughout its history, ASEAN has been diplomatically adept in refusing to take sides on a wide range of geo-political issues that divide the US and its allies in the Global North (like Japan) and China and its allies (including many in the Global South). Since February 2022, as demonstrated by votes at the UN General Assembly and virtually daily announcements from governments in response to Ukraine’s pleas for assistance, the Russia-Ukraine conflict has been pressuring states to “take sides” in a renewed Cold – and possibly hot – global war. How does the new world disorder affect ASEAN’s diplomatic stance – and its security goals and strategies?

This event consists of an engaged conversation, featuring Q and A posed by its interlocutor, Professor José E. Alvarez, and the following distinguished panelists:

• Ambassador Bilahari Kausikan, Chairman of the Middle East Institute
• Professor Peter Dutton, Interim Dean Center for Naval Warfare Studies, Naval War College
• Professor Kiichi Fujiwura, International Politics department; Director of Institute for Future Initiatives, University of Tokyo
• Ms Susan Thornton, Senior Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Center