Panel Discussion: Rising powers and international order

We discuss how rising powers engage with and contribute to the international order. Join us as we engage with academic arguments on these topics with our three panellists in this upcoming event.

Chair and Speaker: Courtney J. Fung (Associate Professor: Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University): Mapping China's Influence at the United Nations

Speakers:

Hoo Tiang Boon (Associate Professor at the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences): China in an Age of Great Power Competition

Ronan Tse-min Fu (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica): War and Peace across the Taiwan Strait

Profiles:

Courtney J. Fung is Associate Professor in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University. Her research focuses on how rising powers address the norms and provisions for global governance and international security, as applied to human protection issues - like peacekeeping, the responsibility to protect and cyber - with an empirical focus on a key rising power, China. She is the author of China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).

Hoo Tiang Boon is Associate Professor at the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and a Faculty Fellow with the NTU-University Scholars Programme. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford and was a recipient of the US-ASEAN Fulbright award. He is the author/co-editor of China's Global Identity: Considering the Responsibilities of Great Power (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018-2019); Chinese Regionalism in Asia: Beyond the Belt-Road Initiative (New York & London, Routledge, 2022); and Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi (New York & London: Routledge, 2017).

Ronan Tse-min Fu is an Assistant Research Fellow in the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica (IPSAS). Prior to joining IPSAS, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program at Columbia University. His research interests include international relations theory, grand strategy, Chinese politics and foreign policy, US-China-Taiwan relations, East Asian security, political psychology, and experimental methods.

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For more information, contact the GRADNAS (The Graduate Research and Development Network on Asian Security) Coordinator, Dr. Stuti Bhatnagar at gradnas@anu.edu.au.

This event is the fifth in the GRADNAS Seminar series of 2023 that will showcase the cutting-edge academic research on Asian security by GRADNAS members. It presents an exciting opportunity for research exchange involving the network, providing a regular occasion for GRADNAS scholars to share and receive feedback on their ongoing and published research. Join us as we celebrate and showcase the excellent research by GRADNAS members and friends.