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The Rise of the East

The conference is fully booked. If you would like to be put on the waiting list, please send an e-mail to seminar@nupi.no
01 November 2011
10:00 Europe/Oslo
Language:
Ballroom
Seminar

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Refleks Project and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) take great pleasure in inviting you to a conference:

The Rise of the East:
Power Shift from the West to the East

Global power relations are changing, and new states are taking centre stage in world politics. The footprint of Asia, and particularly China, in the fields of economy, the environment and increasingly also politics is becoming increasingly salient. Ours is a multi-polar world, with more and partly new centres of power. The new economic and political great powers have rapidly become highly significant for our own part of the world. The conference The Rise of the East will explore these developments and the consequences for the West and for Norway.

The conference is now closed for sign up. If you would like to be put on the waiting list, please send an e-mail to seminar@nupi.no.

The conference will be held on Tuesday, 1 November, from 09:00 to 15:30 at the ’Ballroom’ premises close to the Norwegian Parliament. More than 400 representatives from business and commerce, politics, the NGO sector, state administration, research and media are expected. Conference languages are both Norwegian and English.

Programme 08:15-15:00

Coffee and registration from 08:15 to 09:00

Welcome
 
 Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre
 Chair: Eva Bratholm, Counsellor at the Norwegian Embassy in New Dehli

Keynote
 speaker
 Martin Jacques, London School of Economics

New demographics
 
 Hans Rosling, Karolinska Institutet

Break with fruit and coffee: 11:30

Emerging Asian giants
 
 Huang Jing, National University of Singapore
 Siddharth Varadarajan, The Hindu
daily newspaper, India

Norwegian commentators:
 Arne Melchior, NUPI
 Hanne Skartveit, VG

Lunch: 12:15

Culture and the power of values
 
 Torkel Brekke, University of Oslo and Civita

Støre + four

  • Presentation by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre

Challenges by:

  • Sverre Diesen, Centre for Strategic Studies Ltd
  • Liv Monica Stubholt, Aker Solutions
  • Tove R. Wang, Save the Children Norway
  • Paul Chaffey, Abelia

Closing remarks
 
 Iver B. Neumann, Acting Director, NUPI

The conference is scheduled to end at 15:00.

01 November 2011
10:00 Europe/Oslo
Language:
Ballroom
Seminar