Date and Time: July 26th, 2010 (Monday), 13:30-15:00
Place: Small Seminar Room II (Room No. 331) on the 3rd floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building
Speaker: Victor Teo, PhD, Japan Foundation Visiting Fellow, CSEAS, Kyoto University from The University of Hong Kong
Topic: Contextualising China's Peaceful Rise in Southeast Asia: A Test Case for China's World Status
Abstract:
This paper aims to review recent scholarship documenting the debate on China's professed doctrine of Peaceful Rise. By laying out the context to this doctrine, the paper discusses the domestic and foreign
perspectives on this idea, thereby exposing the perceptual gulf that exists between Chinese and non-Chinese analysts. The paper argues that one of the best indicators on China's behaviour as potential world power in the international system could come from an empirical analysis on her international behaviour in a specific region. To this end, the paper attempts to do so by scrutinising China's diplomatic engagement in Southeast Asia, and delineates what one should or could expect from China as she continues on her current developmental trajectory.