[PPIUK] [INFO-Jakarta] ASEAN SECRETARIAT POLICY FORUM “Rec onstructing ASEAN: Challenges for the 21st Century" (14 July 2009)

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ASEAN SECRETARIAT POLICY FORUM

 

The ASEAN Secretariat Policy Forum is a new series of seminars organized by the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta. Originally called the “ASEC Brown Bag Series”, this Forum will focus on issues affecting ASEAN namely, geopolitical, security, economic, social, cultural affairs and environmental issues; as well as matters concerning the ASEAN Secretariat. It will be a regular series of seminars which will be open to the friends of the ASEAN Secretariat, and the public.

 
The ASEAN Secretariat will be launching this Forum with a lecture entitled, “Reconstructing ASEAN: Challenges for the 21^st Century”, by Prof. Amitav Acharya, Professor of International Affairs at the School of International Service at the American University in Washington D.C. Three very distinguished ASEAN intellectuals, Dr Dewi Fortuna Anwar of The Habibie Center in Jakarta, Prof. Dato’ Dr Zakaria Ahmad of Malaysia and Dr Rizal Sukma of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta will comment on Prof. Amitav’s lecture. This will be followed by a Q & A session. This first forum will be moderated by the Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr Surin Pitsuwan.

 
The seminar will be followed by the official launch of Prof. Amitav’s latest book called, “Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia”.

 
You are cordially invited to attend this lecture and discussion. The details are as follows:

Date:      4.30 – 7.00 pm, 14 July 2009

Venue:    ASEAN Hall, ASEAN Secretariat, Jalan Sisingamangaraja No. 70A, Jakarta 12110

 
Attendance will be on a first-come-first-served basis. More details on the seminar are attached. Please complete the attached Reply Form by 5pm, Friday, 10 July 2009 and email it to: ASECevents@gmail.com

 
Please address your enquiries to Ms. Agustina Herlisnawati, Phone: +62-21-7243372, ext. 453 or the above email address.

 
Sincerely,

 

 

SUNDRAM PUSHPANATHAN

Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for the ASEAN Economic Community

 

 
ASEAN SECRETARIAT POLICY FORUM

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“Reconstructing ASEAN: Challenges for the 21st Century”

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Book Launch,

“Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia”

 

4:00 – 7:00 pm, 14 July 2009

ASEAN Hall, ASEAN Secretariat

Jalan Sisingamangaraja No 7oA, Jakarta 12110

 
 

 

 

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“Reconstructing ASEAN: Challenges for the 21^st Century”, by Prof. Amitav Acharya, Professor of International Affairs at the School of International Service at the American University in Washington D.C.

 
Much has happened to ASEAN since the publication of the first edition of Amitav Acharya’s book, Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia (Routledge 2001), two years before the ASEAN Security Community concept was formally proposed by Indonesia. ASEAN has witnessed momentous changes to its membership, institutional structure and role. First, it expanded its membership to realize its cherished ASEAN-10 concept. Then it embarked on an ambitious plan to develop an ASEAN Community with three pillars: economic, political-security, and socio-cultural. A new ASEAN Charter has been drafted, adopted, ratified and come into force. ASEAN has enhanced its relationship with its dialogue partners, and helped to launch the East Asian Summit.

 
How have these and related initiatives worked out? Have they rendered ASEAN stronger, more efficient, and better prepared to face the challenges of the 21^st century? The 2^nd edition of Acharya’s Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2009), offers a comprehensive evaluation of the reconstructed ASEAN. Reviewing a decade of new developments, the book argues that ASEAN remains indispensable to the security of Southeast Asia, and will continue to play a major role in the wider Asia-Pacific security. But there is a real need to ensure that the initiatives of the past decade are fully implemented and their provisions complied with by member states. ASEAN’s future credibility depends on how it carries out the goals and priorities it has set for itself, goals that are innovative and important, but which will also face daunting challenges from internal as well as external sources.

 

Enquiries:

Ms. Agustina Herlisnawati

Phone: +62-21-7243372, ext. 453

Email: ASECevents@gmail.com  

 

 
SPEAKERS

PROF. AMITAV ACHARYA is Professor of International Affairs at the School of International Service, American University, Washington D.C. His recent publications include: The Quest for Identity: International Relations of Southeast Asia (Oxford, 2000); Promoting Human Security: Ethical, Normative and Educational Frameworks in Southeast Asia (UNESCO, 2007); Asia Rising: Who is Leading? (World Scientific, 2007); and Whose Ideas Matter: Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism (Cornell, 2009).

 

DR DEWI FORTUNA ANWAR is Research Professor and Deputy Chairman for Social Sciences and Humanities at The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Director for Program and Research at The Habibie Center, and member of the Board of Advisors of CIDES (Center for Information and Development Studies) in Jakarta, Indonesia. She was C.V. Starr Distinguished Visiting Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at the SAIS (Johns Hopkins University) in Washington DC from January to May 2007.  Dewi Anwar briefly held the position of Assistant to the Vice President for Global Affairs (May-July 1998) and that of Assistant Minister/State Secretary for Foreign Affairs (August 1998-November 1999), during the Habibie administration.  She had worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore (1989) and as a Congressional Fellow at the US Congress in Washington D.C. (1990-1991).  Prof. Anwar is a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, a Board Member of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a Member of the International Council, the Asia Society, New York,  a member of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC), based in Stockholm, a member of the International Advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, ANU, Australia and a Council Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies IISS (London). She obtained her PhD from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, while her BA (Hons) and MA were obtained from SOAS, University of London.

 

PROF. DATO’ DR ZAKARIA AHMAD is currently Director of HELP University College. He was Professor of Strategic Studies with the School of History, Politics and Strategic Studies at the Universiti Kebangsaan (National University of) Malaysia (UKM). He was the Tun Abdul Razak Distinguished Chair in Southeast Asian Studies at Ohio University from 2001 to July 2003, and from 1999 to 2000 Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at UKM.  He established the Strategic and Security Studies Unit at UKM in 1986 and was its Head until his appointment as Dean in 1999. He was also Head of the Political Science Department at UKM from 1983 until 1998 when he was seconded to be Deputy Director-General (Studies) of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 and has published extensively on public, political and international affairs of Malaysia, ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific region. He has also served on various national and international committees dealing with ASEAN, the Indian Ocean, Pacific Asia, weapons proliferation and disarmament, and has been a consultant to the Malaysian Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs.

 

DR RIZAL SUKMA is currently the Executive Director at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta. He is a prominent member of the executive board of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia’s second largest Islamic organization. He received his PhD degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1997.

 

In the past 10 years, Dr Sukma has been a member of Indonesia’s Eminent Expert Persons (EEP) for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) and the Indonesian Committee in the Council on Security Cooperation in Asia-Pacific (CSCAP), two institutions that promote security in the region.

 

Dr Sukma is the author of numerous papers and reports, and his work has been published in several journals and internationally-circulated publications. His recent publications include: Indonesia and China: the Politics of a Troubled Relationship (London: Routledge, 1999); Islam in Indonesian Foreign Policy (London: Routledge Curzon, 2003); and “Security Operations in Aceh: Goals, Consequences, and Lessons,” Policy Studies No. 3, East West Centre, Washington DC, 2004.