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Asia Programme
Maritime Security in the Asia-Pacific
Thursday 12 February 2015
Chatham House, London
Agenda
09.30
Registration
Tea/coffee
10.00
Introduction
John Swenson-Wright, Head, Asia Programme, Chatham House
10.15
Keynote Speech
Ambassador Yoshiji Nogami, President and Director General, Japan Institute of International
Affairs
11.00
Session 1: Traditional and Non-traditional Maritime Security Challenges in the Asia-Pacific
Traditional Challenges
James Przystup, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National
Defense University, United States
Non-traditional Challenges
Ryo Sahashi, Associate Professor of International Politics, Kanagawa University
Capacity-building and Cooperation
Sam Bateman, Professorial Fellow, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security,
University of Wollongong
Chair: Kun Chin Lin, Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House
12.30
Lunch
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13.30
Session 2: The Rule of Law in the Maritime Domain
The East China Sea: Practical Approaches and the Rule of Law
Masayuki Masuda, Senior Fellow, National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan
The South China Sea: Efforts to Maintain the Rule of Law
Thang Nguyen Dang, Lecturer, Faculty of International Law, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam
Europe: What Role in the Asia-Pacific?
Douglas Guilfoyle, Reader, Faculty of Law, University College London
Chair: Vasco Becker-Weinberg, Advisor to the Secretary of State of the Sea, Ministry of
Agriculture and Sea, Portugal
15.00
Tea/coffee
15.20
Session 3: Maritime Security beyond the Asia-Pacific
Fighting piracy off the African coast
Sir Anthony Dymock, former UK Representative to NATO
The Emerging Concept of the Indo-Pacific
Ambassador Rakesh Sood, Special Envoy for Disarmament and Non-proliferation to Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, India (2013-14)
Regional Cooperation on Maritime Security
Ren Xiao, Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Chinese Foreign Policy, Fudan
University, Shanghai, China
Euro-Asian Cooperation to Preserve the ‘Commons’
Alessio Patalano, Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Chair: Roderic Wye, Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House
17:00
Wrap-up and Concluding Remarks
John Swenson-Wright, Head, Asia Programme, Chatham House
17.15
Drinks reception
18.15
End