Centre for United States andAsia Policy Studies (CUSAPS)

The Centre for United States and Asia Policy Studies is the first in Australia to focus primarily on the

interrelationships between Asia and the United States.

Established in July 2012, the Centre is a research intensive organisation that will create a focal point for the study of

Australia’s single most important economic and strategic issue: how to balance its deepening economic

and strategic ties with Asia and its strategic alliance with the United States.

CUSAPS’ first annual conference will explore the topic:The rules of the game in a rising Asia. The central message

of the Obama Doctrine for China is perfectly clear: there are economic and strategic rules of the game, and Beijing needs

to live by them if the potential for future conflict is to be reduced. What is not nearly so clear is precisely what these

rules are. This uncertainty runs particularly deep in Asia, where the major legacy from the Cold War era is the “San

Francisco system”, a hub-and-spokes architecture of bilateral alliances whose primary historical purpose has been the

avoidance of any general principles.

So the real questions that arise from the Obama Doctrine are these:

Who will now write these absent rules? By what process will they be written?

And what should they say in the domains ofissue-specific policy?

These are the concerns that animate this conference.

The rules of the game in a rising AsiaInternational Expert Workshop

Friday, 26 October 2012 | Science Exchange Auditorium, Adelaide

inspiring achievementFaculty of Social & Behavioural ScienceSchool of International Studies

8.45 am Registration

9.00 – 9.15 am Welcome and launch of The Centre for United States and Asia Policy Studies

9.15 – 10.45am Economic Panel discussion Professor Herman Schwartz

Professor Don DeBats

Professor Joseph Cheng

Dr Maryanne Kelton

Dr Michael Sullivan

10.45 – 11.15am Morning refreshments

11.15 – 12.45pm Security Panel discussion Professor Malcolm Cook

Professor Purnendra Jain

Professor Alan Dupont

Dr Priyambudi Sulistiyanto

Dr Anthony J Langlois

12.45 – 2.00pm Lunch

2.00 – 3.15pm Resources Panel discussion Dr Richard Leaver

Dr Alexandra Guáqueta

Dr John Bruni

3.15 – 3.40pm Afternoon refreshments

3.40 – 5.00pm Maritime Security discussion Dr Sam Bateman

Captain Justin Jones

Emily Bienvenue

5.00 – 5.15pm Summary and Conclusion

Panel discussions The workshop panels will grapple with the nature of the strategic and economic uncertainty currently manifesting itself in Asia. What dynamics have given rise to the current architecture and preference for the avoidance of principles? It will consider the sources of US and Asian power and the threats to that strength. The recently released Asian Century white paper provides a timely background to our discussions.

Economic panelThis panel will discuss the economic dynamics that make the rules of the game important. What do these dynamics suggest about the rules by which power has been, and can be, shared within the region? How will they contribute to the reduction of conflict?

Security panel The panel will address the fundamental security questions that are prompted by the Obama doctrine and consider the normative and practical responses. Who should write these rules? Who will? By what process should they be constructed? How are they likely to be constructed?

Resources panelThis session will provide an opportunity to wrestle with the process by which the rules of the specific resources sub-game can be derived. The resources domain self-selects its place in the workshop program by dint of the absence of rules in a sector that has insulated Australia from the global economic crisis.

Maritime security panel Recent Australia-United States Ministerial (AUSMIN) discussions have highlighted the importance of alliance cooperation in the maritime domain. This panel explores the centrality of the maritime domain to regional security concerns, cooperation and competition and the lack of agreed upon ways of reducing competition and increasing cooperation.

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The rules of the game in a rising Asia

Schedule | Friday 26 October 2012

The rules of the game in a rising AsiaKeynote speakers and panellists

Professor Joseph Cheng

Professor Joseph Cheng joined the City University of Hong Kong in July 1992 as Professor of Political Science. Before that, he taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1977-1989) and the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong (1989-1991). He received postgraduate degrees at Victoria

University of Wellington, New Zealand and Flinders University.

Professor Purnendra Jain

Purnendra Jain is a Professor of Japanese Studies in the Centre for Asian Studies at Australia’s University of Adelaide. He is author and editor of 12 books and numerous scholarly articles on the contemporary politics and foreign policy of Japan. He is currently President of the

Asian Studies Association of Australia.

Dr Sam Bateman

Dr Sam Bateman retired from the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as a Commodore and is now a Professorial Research Fellow at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He is also an Adviser to the

Maritime Security Programme at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Professor Malcolm Cook

Professor Malcolm Cook is the former Program Director for East Asia at the Lowy Institute. He is now Dean of the School of International Studies at Flinders University. Malcolm completed a PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University.

Captain Justin Jones

Captain Justin Jones, RAN, is the Director of the Sea Power Centre - Australia and Naval Associate at the Lowy Institute. A serving naval officer for 24 years, Justin has had diverse experiences ranging across maritime counterterrorism, peace monitoring, operations in the Middle East,

and extensive engagement with navies throughout Indo-Pacific Asia. Dr John Bruni

Dr John Bruni is Director of SAGE International, an Adelaide-based open source intelligence (OSINT) and risk management consultancy. John has extensive expertise in the areas of inter-agency co-operation and asymmetric warfare, especially in the Middle East context. He is an alumnus of Flinders University.

Professor Alan Dupont

Alan Dupont is Professor of International Security and Director of the Institute for International Security and Development at the University of New South Wales, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute. He has worked on Australian defenceand Asian security issues for more than

thirty years as a strategist, diplomat, policy analyst and scholar.

Professor Herman Schwartz

Professor Herman Schwartz is a geographically oriented economic historian who finds it congenial to work in a politics department because he studies the constitution of and interaction of state and market power. He is currently working on the political economy of the knowledge economy.

Dr Anthony J Langlois

Anthony J Langlois was educated at the University of Tasmania and the Australian National University.

In 2010 he was a Senior Visiting

Fellow in the Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

His areas of academic endeavour include international political theory, political philosophy, human rights, international relations, religion and ethics.

Dr Priyambudi Sulistiyanto

Dr Priyambudi Sulistiyanto is a lecturer at Flinders Asia Centre, School of International Studies and is currently the Head of Flinders Asia Centre. He previously taught at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.

Dr Alexandra Guáqueta

Alexandra Guáqueta joined Flinders in 2011. She has worked on the political and economic dimensions of armed conflict, Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) and peace-building, as well as illegal drug control; business, conflict and human rights; and US-Latin American relations.

Dr Richard Leaver

Richard Leaver is Associate Professor in International Relations at Flinders University. His expertise for media contact include: economic aspects of international relations, with particular attention to energy and oil; nuclear proliferation/nuclear non-proliferation and the politics of the international

civil fuel cycle; and Australian foreign policy, especially in reference to all of the above.

Emily Bienvenue

Emily Bienvenue is a PhD candidate at Flinders University. Emily’s research into international maritime diplomacy has received one of Flinders University’s Best Student Paper Awards, a new initiative to recognise and reward student research across the campus.

Dr Michael Sullivan

Michael is a lecturer in International Relations at Flinders University.

His research interests include China, East Asia’s international political economy and international relations theory.

Dr Maryanne Kelton

Maryanne Kelton is a senior lecturer in international relations at Flinders University. Her research interests include alliance relations, economic statecraft, defence procurement, and the utility of force.

Professor Don DeBats

Professor Don DeBats is Head of American Studies at Flinders University. His historical studies of American political history and political culture are supported by the Australian Research Council and the US National Endowment for the Humanities. He also teaches, writes, and comments

on developments and trends in contemporary US politics.

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