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Panel Title: MODES OF ENGAGEMENT: MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF A NEW ASEAN
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Panel Members:
Mr. Karl Ian Cheng Chua, School of Social Science, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

Maria Elissa Jayme-Lao, Department of Political Science, Ateneo de Manila University
mlao@ateneo.edu

Ms. Isabel Consuelo A. Nazareno, Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University
inazareno@ateneo.edu

Ms. Pilar Preciousa Pajayon-Berse, Department of Political Science, Ateneo de Manila
University
pberse@ateneo.edu

Manuel Enverga III, European Studies Program
Ateneo de Manila University
menverga@ateneo.edu
 

Panel Abstract:

As Southeast Asia meets the challenges of a more globalized era, the dynamics of its socio-political and economic relationship with other actors in the international community and how it takes up the diverse issues significant to the region become highly recognizable and demands careful re-assessment.

The primary objective that the panel hopes to address is: What modes of engagement does Southeast Asia employ in meeting the new challenges laid out for it? The panel attempts to discuss Southeast Asia’s current modes of engaging the world by defining the emerging trends in the region: (1) a region previously circumscribed by more powerful states and interest groups now seeking to engage the world towards creating its own niche and promoting its interests, such as in culture and the arts, (2) as individual states engaging each other in the context of increased mobility within the region, and (3) as a security regime engaging new partners in an era of globalization.

The panel aims to include papers/ researches on the following: Japan and power relations during the pre-war and WWII period; promotion, through the visual arts, of Southeast Asia with its counterparts throughout the globe; increased mobility in the Southeast Asian region; and challenges to ASEAN-Japan relations.

For paper applications, please email mlao@ateneo.edu and pberse@ateneo.edu.