The East Asia Institute hosted the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative 2010 Annual Meeting at Westin Chosun Hotel, Seoul, South Korea, from July 7-9 2010. This was the second annual meeting held since the Inaugural MacArthur Grantees’ Meeting and Official Launch of the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative hosted by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore last year.

 

Following on from the successful Singapore meeting which focused on launching the MASI program, this year’s Annual Meeting was more focused on developing a network and exchanging information between grantees toward the goal of developing an epistemic community. The 2010 Annual Meeting was organized to meet three key objectives: (1) improving the MASI networks across clusters as well as within each cluster, (2) providing a venue to discuss and exchange ideas on the major issues in the Asia region, and (3) producing a policy report based upon the findings and conclusions of the meeting.

 

The below is the program for the MacArthur Asia Security Initiative 2010 Annual Meeting.

 

Program

 

July 7 Wednesday

 

All day Arrival of overseas participants

18:30~20:00 Reception / Dinner

 

July 8 Thursday

Preliminary Session_Grand Ballroom A, F1

 

09:00~09:10 Welcoming Speech

Sook-Jong Lee, President of East Asia Institute

  

09:20~09:40 Keynote Speech

Changyong Rhee, Secretary General of the Presidential Committee for the G20 Summit

 

09:40~10:00 Coffee Break

 

Session I. Group Discussion

 

10:00~12:00  

 

Group 1: “Post-Crisis Global and Regional Order”_Grand Ballroom B, F1

 

Moderator: Young-Sun Ha, Seoul National University 

 

Memo#1. “Changing Global Governance after the Economic Crisis, and the Future of G20 Summit”

Presenter: John Ravenhill, Australian National University 

 

Memo#2. “Post-Crisis Asian Order: Beyond American Unipolarity?”

Presenter: Jae Ho Chung, Seoul National University

 

Group 2: “East Asian Community”_Grand Ballroom C, F1

 

Moderator: Feng Zhu, Center for International & Strategic Studies 

 

Memo#3: “Past and Present of East Asian Community”

Presenter: Nikola Mirilovic, George Washington University 

 

Memo#4: “Different Views from Different Countries: Challenges to East Asian Community”

Presenter: Tiehlin Yen, National Chengchi University

 

12:00~14:00 Luncheon_Grand Ballroom A, F1

 

Session II. Cluster Discussion (Closed Session)

 

14:00~15:20  

 

Cluster 1 Meeting _Grand Ballroom B, F1

Moderator: Feng Zhu, Center for International & Strategic Studies

 

Cluster 2 Meeting_Grand Ballroom C, F1

Moderator: Chaesung Chun, East Asia Institute

 

Cluster 3 Meeting _Cara Room, F3

Moderator: Mely Caballero-Anthony, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

 

15:20~15:40 Coffee Break

 

Session III. Group Discussion

 

15:40~17:40

 

Group 1: “Post-Crisis Global and Regional Order”_Grand Ballroom B, F1 

 

Moderator: Mely Caballero-Anthony, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies 

 

Memo#5: “Post-Crisis and Post-Modern?: New Issues in Global and Regional Governance (Climate Changes and Environmental Cooperation)”

Presenter: Meredith Miller, National Bureau of Asian Research

 

Memo#6: “Towards a New Asian Order: Solving Traditional and Non-Traditional Security Issues”

Presenter: T.J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley

 

Group 2: “East Asian Community”_Grand Ballroom C, F1 

 

Moderator: Tadashi Yamamoto, Japan Center for International Exchange

 

Memo#7: “Issues for and against the Community: Security, Economy, Energy, and Human Security Issues”

Presenter: David F. von Hippel, Nautilus Institute

 

Memo#8: “We-ness for Asians: Identity Politics and Building East Asian Community”

Presenter: Brad Glosserman, Pacific Forum Center for Strategic & International Studies

 

18:30~20:00 Dinner_Grand Ballroom A, F1

Speech

Jin Park, Assemblyman, Grand National Party

 

July 9 Friday

Session IV. Closing Session_Orchid, F2

 

09:30~10:30

Concluding Speech

Qingguo Jia, Center for International & Strategic Studies, Peking University

Mely Caballero-Anthony, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Chaesung Chun, East Asia Institute

 

10:30~11:00 Q & A

 

12:00~14:00 Luncheon_Lilac & Tulip & Cosmos Room, F2

Speech

Walter L. Sharp, Commander of ROK-US Combined Forces Command

 

14:00

Farewell Speech

Sook-Jong Lee, East Asia Institute