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The East-West Center in Washington held an
Indo- Pacific Foreign Policy and Defense Series Seminar:
International Order Transition and US-China Strategic Competition in the Indo-Pacific
A Conversation With:
Dr. Kai He
Professor of International Relations &
Director, Centre for Governance and Public Policy
Griffith University
Dr. Satu P. Limaye (Moderator)
Vice President, East-West Center &
Director, East-West Center in Washington
The liberal international order (LIO) is at stake. China’s rise is seen as one of the major challenges to the LIO. However, scholars and policy analysts heatedly debate over when and how an international order transition will take place. By introducing a new concept of international order, this seminar proposes a new hypothesis on international order transition. It suggests that the mere power shift between the United States and China will not constitute a significant order transition in the international system. This seminar will examine how US-China competition has impacted the current LIO in the Indo-Pacific and sheds some light on US-China relations in the 21st century. It suggests that all states, including the United States and China have played multiple roles—as supporter, reformer, and challenger—in shaping the future of the LIO. It is too early to predict an inevitable conflict between the United States and China because the order is too complicated to change in a presumed way. The future of China’s rise is still unwritten rather than destined for war.
Thursday, September 22, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
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Location: East-West Center in Washington
1819 L Street, NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
Dr. Kai He is a Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (2017–2020). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (2009–2010). He is the author of Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific: Economic Interdependence and China’s Rise (Routledge, 2009), the co-author of Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific: Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior (Routledge, 2013), and the author of China’s Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2016). His latest book is Contesting Revisionism: The United States, China, and Transformation of International Order (Oxford, 2021, co-authored with Steve Chan, Huiyun Feng, and Weixing Hu).
Dr. Satu P. Limaye is Vice President of the East-West Center and the Director of the East-West Center in Washington where he created and now directs the Asia Matters for America initiative and is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Bulletin. He is also a Senior Advisor at CNA Corp (Center for Naval Analyses). He is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his doctorate from Oxford University (Magdalen College) where he was a George C. Marshall Scholar. He publishes and speaks widely on Indo-Pacific regional issues and supports various U.S. government, foundation, fellowship, and professional organizations. Among his current affiliations are Center for New American Security (CNAS) Task Force on the U.S.-Philippines Alliance, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Senior Study Group on the North Pacific, Project 2049 Study Group on the U.S.-Australia Alliance, Korea Economic Institute (KEI) Advisory Council, and Global Taiwan Institute-Taiwan Asia Exchange Foundation project. Recent publications include: Southeast Asia’s choices: Economic, political, and geopolitical integration face complications, India in East Asia: Focused on the Quad and Border Disputes with China, and Maintaining the Technology Edge: Strengthening US and Indo-Pacific Alliances to Counter Chinese Technology Acquisition (with Rose Tenyotkin).
The East-West Center in Washington held an
Indo- Pacific Foreign Policy and Defense Series Seminar:
International Order Transition and US-China Strategic Competition in the Indo-Pacific
A Conversation With:
Dr. Kai He
Professor of International Relations &
Director, Centre for Governance and Public Policy
Griffith University
Dr. Satu P. Limaye (Moderator)
Vice President, East-West Center &
Director, East-West Center in Washington
The liberal international order (LIO) is at stake. China’s rise is seen as one of the major challenges to the LIO. However, scholars and policy analysts heatedly debate over when and how an international order transition will take place. By introducing a new concept of international order, this seminar proposes a new hypothesis on international order transition. It suggests that the mere power shift between the United States and China will not constitute a significant order transition in the international system. This seminar will examine how US-China competition has impacted the current LIO in the Indo-Pacific and sheds some light on US-China relations in the 21st century. It suggests that all states, including the United States and China have played multiple roles—as supporter, reformer, and challenger—in shaping the future of the LIO. It is too early to predict an inevitable conflict between the United States and China because the order is too complicated to change in a presumed way. The future of China’s rise is still unwritten rather than destined for war.
Thursday, September 22, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Click here to find your local start time.
Location: East-West Center in Washington
1819 L Street, NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
Dr. Kai He is a Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (2017–2020). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (2009–2010). He is the author of Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific: Economic Interdependence and China’s Rise (Routledge, 2009), the co-author of Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific: Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior (Routledge, 2013), and the author of China’s Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2016). His latest book is Contesting Revisionism: The United States, China, and Transformation of International Order (Oxford, 2021, co-authored with Steve Chan, Huiyun Feng, and Weixing Hu).
Dr. Satu P. Limaye is Vice President of the East-West Center and the Director of the East-West Center in Washington where he created and now directs the Asia Matters for America initiative and is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Bulletin. He is also a Senior Advisor at CNA Corp (Center for Naval Analyses). He is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his doctorate from Oxford University (Magdalen College) where he was a George C. Marshall Scholar. He publishes and speaks widely on Indo-Pacific regional issues and supports various U.S. government, foundation, fellowship, and professional organizations. Among his current affiliations are Center for New American Security (CNAS) Task Force on the U.S.-Philippines Alliance, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Senior Study Group on the North Pacific, Project 2049 Study Group on the U.S.-Australia Alliance, Korea Economic Institute (KEI) Advisory Council, and Global Taiwan Institute-Taiwan Asia Exchange Foundation project. Recent publications include: Southeast Asia’s choices: Economic, political, and geopolitical integration face complications, India in East Asia: Focused on the Quad and Border Disputes with China, and Maintaining the Technology Edge: Strengthening US and Indo-Pacific Alliances to Counter Chinese Technology Acquisition (with Rose Tenyotkin).
