Background The rise of China has been one of the most dynamic and defining international events in world politics in the 21st century. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, China s foreign policy has turned to an assertive direction in the eyes of outside observers. For China, this socalled assertiveness in diplomacy signified a policy transformation from its traditional principle of keeping a low profile to a new orientation of striving for achievement. How to understand China s foreign policy transformation and manage China s challenges to the regional order has become an imperative task for both policy makers and academic scholars in the Asia Pacific. This workshop aims to invite leading scholars from China and Australia to discuss and examine the theoretical and practical implications of China s foreign policy and its challenges to the regional order in the Asia Pacific. Papers from the workshop will be published in two formats, according to their focus and authorship: as working papers in the Griffith Asia Institute working paper series or as academic/policy articles gathered into an academic and policy journal. Both will be distributed to policy-makers, leading universities, and think-tanks in Australia and China. 28 August 2017 Page 1 28 August 2017 Page 1
Program Monday 28 August Venue: Queensland College of Art Boardroom (Room 7.16), Level 7, Webb Centre, (Building 2), Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, South Bank campus 9:00-9:20 REGISTRATION 9:25-9:30 Welcome Remarks - Caitlin Byrne, Director, Griffith Asia Institute 9:30-11:00 PANEL I Understanding China s institutional strategies Chair: Haig Patapan, Griffith University Huiyun Feng and Kai He, Griffith University China s institutional challenges to the regional order Amy King, Australian National University China and the international economic order: From Bretton Woods and Bandung to AIIB and BRI Discussant: Ian Hall, Griffith University 11:00-11:30 MORNING TEA 11:30-1:00 PANEL II China and regional order Chair: Ian Hall, Griffith University Darren Lim, Australian National University Crystallising the principles of a China-led order Jin Xu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences China s future East Asian security policy framework Discussant: Andrew O Neil, Griffith University 1:00-2:00 LUNCH 2:00-3:30 PANEL III China s economic policy and regional implications Chair: Andrew O Neil, Griffith University Ian Hall, Griffith University India and the Belt and Road Initiative: Challenging China s economic statecraft Weizhun Mao, Nanjing University China s OBOR strategy and regional order transformation Discussant: Bates Gill, Australian National University 3:30-4:00 AFTERNOON TEA 28 August 2017 Page 2
4:00-5:30 PANEL IV The security-economic nexus and regional order Chair: Bates Gill, Australian National University Dalei Jie, Peking University Prospect Theory and Sino-Japanese Island Dispute James Reilly, University of Sydney Learning China s history lessons: Chinese views on economic statecraft Discussant: Haig Patapan, Griffith University 5:30-5:40 Closing Remarks: Haig Patapan, Griffith University 6:00 DINNER DAY 2 Tuesday 29 August Domestic participants will depart from Brisbane International participants will visit the Gold Coast campus, Griffith University 28 August 2017 Page 3
Speakers (in alphabetical order) Professor Caitlin Byrne is the Director, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University. Prior to joining Griffith University, Caitlin was Assistant Professor of International Relations at Bond University, Gold Coast. Her teaching and research interests include contemporary and public diplomacy, with a special focus on Australia in the Asia-Pacific region, Korea and China. Caitlin is a former research fellow of the University of Southern California's Centre for Public Diplomacy (CPD) and is currently associated with the Australian Studies program at Sun-Yat Sen University, Guangzhou. Caitlin s research is published in a range of journals including the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, the Australian Journal of International Affairs, Sport in Society, Exchange: Journal on Public Diplomacy and CPD Perspectives. Caitlin previously held a range of management and policy roles across government, including with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1993-2001) and the Queensland Government's Office for Women (2003-2005). She has led major social policy and legislative reform projects including the implementation of Queensland's Adoption Act 2011, and conducted change management projects in the private and community sectors. Caitlin consults on occasion, and is currently working with DFAT in the development of an Australian global alumni engagement strategy. Caitlin is deeply engaged in Queensland s international policy community, including the Australian Institute of International Affairs and has been recently appointed to the Fulbright Selection Committee for Queensland. Dr Huiyun Feng is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. Her publications have appeared in the European Journal of International Relations, Security Studies, European Political Science Review, The Pacific Review, International Politics, Journal of Contemporary China, Chinese Journal of International Politics, and Asian Perspective. She is the author of Chinese Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Confucianism, Leadership and War (Routledge, 2007) and the co-author of Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific: Rational Leaders and Risky Behaviour (Routledge, 2013). She is the Co-Principal Investigator for a three-year MacArthur Foundation s Asia Security Initiative grant. She is a former Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar at United States Institute of Peace, and former senior research fellow at RSIS Singapore and Danish Institute for International Studies. 28 August 2017 Page 4
Professor Bates Gill is Professor of Asia-Pacific Strategic Studies with the Australian National University Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. He previously led the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC (2002-2007), and served as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director of the Centre for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution (1998-2002). Among his more than 190 publications, he is author, co-author, or coeditor of eight books, including, most recently, China Matters: Getting it Right for Australia (Black Inc/LaTrobe University Press, 2017) (coauthored with Linda Jakobson). Dr Gill is a Director of China Matters, a Sydney-based public policy initiative. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Singapore) and is a member of the International Board of Advisors for the Shanghai Institutes of International Studies. He is on the Editorial Board of China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, and Security Challenges. Dr Gill received his PhD in Foreign Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia. In 2013, he received the Royal Order of the Commander of the Polar Star, the highest award bestowed on foreigners by the Swedish monarch. Professor Ian Hall is a professor of politics in the School of Government and International Relations and member of the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University. His research interests include the history of international thought and Indian foreign policy. He currently sits on the editorial boards of Asian Politics and Policy, the Australian Journal of International Affairs, and International Relations. His most recent books include Dilemmas of Decline: British Intellectuals and World Politics, 1945-1975 (2012) and The Engagement of India: Strategies and Responses (2014). He is currently working on an Australian Research Council funded project on Indian international thought. 28 August 2017 Page 5
Professor Kai He is an ARC Future Fellow and member of the Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University. 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), Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific: Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior (co-authored with Huiyun Feng, Routledge, 2013), and China s Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2016). His peer-refereed articles have appeared in European Journal of International Relations, European Political Science Review, Review of International Studies, Security Studies, International Politics, Cooperation and Conflict, Asian Survey, The Pacific Review, Journal of Contemporary China, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Asian Security, Asian Perspective, International Relations of the Asia Pacific, and Issues and Studies. Associate Professor Dalei Jie is from the School of International Studies of Peking University in Beijing, China. He is interested in security studies related to China, the US, and East Asia. He got his PhD degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Before coming to Penn, he studied at Peking University, where he got his B.A. in international studies and economics as well as an MA in international politics. He has published articles in English journals such as Asian Security and in Chinese journals such as World Economics and Politics, The Chinese Journal of American Studies, and Journal of International Studies. Dr Amy King is a Senior Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, specialising on Chinese foreign and security policy, China-Japan relations, and the international relations and security of the Asia-Pacific region. She is concurrently an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and a Westpac Research Fellow, and is engaged in a three-year research project examining China s role in shaping the international economic order. Amy is the author of China-Japan Relations After World War II: Empire, Industry and War, 1949-1971 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). She received her DPhil in International Relations and MPhil in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. 28 August 2017 Page 6
Dr Darren J Lim is a Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University. He researches and teaches in both international political economy and international security. His focus is primarily on economic statecraft, the foundations of economic interdependence, and the mechanisms through which trade and investment links can affect states security and foreign policies. His work has been published by the Journal of Conflict Resolution and Security Studies, as well as the Brookings Institution. He received his PhD from Princeton University s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and also holds a Master of Public Affairs from Princeton. Associate Professor Weizhun Mao lectures in International Politics at the School of Government and is a researcher at Centre for Asia-Pacific Development Studies, Nanjing University. He holds a Doctorate in Social Science awarded by Universität Konstanz in 2015 and a PhD degree in International Relations from Renmin University of China in 2012. Weizhun has also received a Master in International Humanitarian Actions in 2007 from Ruhr-University Bochum and Uppsala University supported by Erasmus Mundus, a Master in International Politics from Nankai University in 2006 and a Bachelor of Political Studies at Nanjing University. His research interests include international institutions, international responsibility, peace and conflict studies, and intellectual history of international relations theories. He has had several articles published in SSCI and CSSCI journals or edited as book chapters and research reports in both Chinese and English. Professor Andrew O Neil is Dean (Research) and Professor of Political Science in the Griffith Business School. Prior to being appointed Dean in April 2016, he was Head of the School of Government and International Relations (2014-2016) and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute (2010-2014). Before coming to Griffith in 2010, Andrew was Associate Head (Research) in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Flinders University, and prior to entering academia he worked as a Commonwealth public servant with Australia s Department of Defence. Andrew s research expertise focuses on the intersection of strategic, political, and economic change in the Asia-Pacific with particular emphasis on the security dimension of international relations. He is a frequent media commentator on these topics. Working in teams, Andrew is the recipient of Australian Research Council (Discovery and Linkage Project) funding, and has also received competitive industry funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Japan Foundation, and the Department of Defence. He is a former member of the Australian Foreign Minister s National Consultative Committee on National Security Issues and former advisory board member of the Lowy Institute s G20 Studies Centre. Andrew is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of International Affairs and is currently an editorial board member of the North Korean Review, the Journal of Intelligence History, and Security Challenges. 28 August 2017 Page 7
Professor Haig Patapan is the Director of the Centre for Governance and Public Policy and Professor in the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University. His research interests are in democratic theory and practice, political philosophy, political leadership and comparative constitutionalism. Professor Patapan has published in the foremost politics, political theory, public policy, and law journals. His books include Judging Democracy (2000), an examination of judicial politics, jurisprudence and constitutionalism; Machiavelli in Love (2007), a theoretical enquiry into the origins of modern political thought; and a series of co-edited books exploring the changing nature of legitimacy, law and leadership, especially in Asia: Globalisation and Equality (2004); Westminster Legacies (2005); Dissident Democrats (2008); Political Legitimacy in Asia (2011). Professor Patapan is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He has received a number of awards, including the Mosher Award by the American Society for Public Administration, the Mayer Prize by the Australian Political Studies Association, an Australian Prime Ministers Centre Fellowship, and most recently a Senior Fulbright Scholarship at the Centre for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Associate Professor James Reilly lectures in Northeast Asian Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. He holds a PhD in Political Science (George Washington University 2008) and an MA in East Asia Area Studies (University of Washington 1999), was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2008-09), and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2015-16). He also served as the East Asia Representative of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in China from 2001-2008. He is the author of Strong Society, Smart State: The Rise of Public Opinion in China s Japan Policy (Columbia University Press, 2012), and the co-editor of Australia and China at 40 (UNSW Press, 2012). His articles have appeared in numerous edited volumes and academic journals. Dr Jin Xu is a Senior Fellow and head of Department of International Political Theory, Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He obtained his Bachelor s degree in Literature from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1994, Master (2000) and PhD (2008) in International Relations from College of International Relations and Tsinghua University respectively. His main academic interests include international relations theory and international security. His articles have been published in major journals including The Chinese Journal of International Politics and Journal of World Economics and Politics. 28 August 2017 Page 8
Venue Queensland College of Art Boardroom Level 7, Webb Centre, Building S02, Room 7.16 Queensland College of Art, Griffith University 226 Grey Street South Bank, Queensland 28 August 2017 Page 9
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Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia Phone: +61 7 3735 3730 Email: gai@griffith.edu.au Website: www.griffith.edu.au/asiainstitute Twitter: @GAIGriffith 28 August 2017 Page 11