The EAI held an international conference with the Transatlantic Academy under the title of “Global Shift: Implications of a Post-Western World” on October 18, 2010. Beginning with a keynote speech by Chairman Hong-Koo Lee, 20 participants from United States, Europe, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea had a discussion on a changing world order.

 

Program

  

October 18 (Monday)

 

10:00~10:30

Opening remarks

Stephen F. Szabo, Executive Director of the Transatlantic Academy

Sook-Jong Lee, President of the East Asia Institute

 

10:30~11:00

Keynote Speech

Hong-Koo Lee, Chairman of the East Asia Institute and the Seoul Forum for International Affairs

 

11:00~12:30

Session I. Economic Governance: Trade and Finance

 

Topic areas

Regional and Global FTA Networks; Chiang-Mai Initiative

 

Moderator

Soo Yeon Kim, Transatlantic Academy

 

12:30~14:00 Luncheon

 

14:00~16:00

Session II. Global Governance: G-20 and beyond

 

Topic areas

Asia’s Role in the G-20; Global Order in the 21st Century

 

Moderator

Giovanni Andornino, Transatlantic Academy

 

16:00~16:15 Coffee Break

 

16:15~18:15

Session III. Security Competition: East Asian security

 

Topic areas

North Korea’s Leadership Succession; Nuclear Proliferation; Territorial Disputes and Regional Seas

 

Moderator

Iskander Rehman, Transatlantic Academy

 

Participants

  

Giovanni Andornino, Transatlantic Academy, Research Fellow, Turin University

Du-Hyeon Cha, Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Defense Analyses

Daniel Deudney, Transatlantic Academy, Johns Hopkins University

James Goldgeier, Transatlantic Academy, George Washington University

Steffen Kern, Helmut Schmidt Fellow, Transatlantic Academy, Deutsche Bank

Soo Yeon Kim, Transatlantic Academy, National University of Singapor

Jun-seok Kim, Professor of Catholic University

Min Gyo Koo, Professor of Seoul National University

Hong-Koo Lee, Chairman of the East Asia Institute and the Seoul Forum for International Affairs

Sang Hyun Lee, Director of the Security Studies Program at the Sejong Institute

Seungjoo Lee, Professor of Chung-Ang University

Sook-Jong Lee, President of the East Asia Institute

Hans W. Maull, Transatlantic Academy, University of Trier

Chen Mumin, National Chung-Hsing University

Iskander Rehman, Transatlantic Academy, CERI, Institute of Political Sciences

Stefan A. Schirm, Transatlantic Academy, Ruhr University Bochum

Seongho Sheen, Professor of Seoul National University

Nicholas Siegel, Program Officer, Transatlantic Academy

Yoshihide Soeya, Keio University

Stephen F. Szabo, Executive Director of the Transatlantic Academy