[01.11.10] China, India and Japan in the Shifting Asian and Global Orders
NUPI's Department of Security and Conflict Management has the pleasure of inviting you to the Security in Practice seminar:
China, India and Japan in the Shifting Asian and Global Orders
Ramesh Thakur, Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo
Asia's destiny will be shaped by China, India and Japan. The strategic footprint of their relations with one another and with the United States will cover the world. Cooperation between them will promote peace and underwrite prosperity in Asia. Rivalry and conflict will roil the world. China's and India's future economic potential already has translated into present political weight. As part of the shifting global order, US influence and prestige have fallen but it remains the most influential international and the only global actor; Japan continues its slow decline; Russia is marking time; Europe's reach is shorter than its grasp; India is starting to recapture world interest; and the real winner is China with an ascendant economy, growing poise and expanding soft power assets. The real challenge of diplomacy will be to ensure that this is to the benefit of the region and the world and not a threat to regional or international security.
Read the article:
The Washington Quarterly: Will China Change the Rules of Global Order?
Ramesh Thakur is Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Griffith University in Australia. He was Vice Rector and Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University (and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations) from 1998–2007. Mr Thakur was a Commissioner and one of the principal authors of The Responsibility to Protec t (2001), and Senior Adviser on Reforms and Principal Writer of the United Nations Secretary-General’s second reform report (2002). His most recent books include The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) – winner of the ACUNS 2008 Award for the best recent book on the UN system; The United Nations and Nuclear Orders , co-edited with Jane Boulden and Thomas G. Weiss (UN University Press, 2009); and Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey , co-written with Thomas G. Weiss (Indiana University Press, 2010).
The Security in Practice Seminar brings together researchers, practitioners and policy-makers who share an interest in current practices within the field of stability and security operations. The seminar series draws on resource persons within this community to share both experiences and theoretical perspectives, and aims at being a forum for open and critical debate.