Details

7th Europe-East Asia Think Tank Dialogue

Community-Building in Europe and East Asia:

Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Prospects

22 - 23 November 2005

Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore

Monday, 21 November 2005

Arrival of International Participants

2000 hrs

Welcome Dinner

Tuesday, 22 November 2005

0830 – 0900 hrs

Registration

0900 – 1200 hrs

Public Forum

0900 – 0915 hrs

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Mr. Jusuf Wanandi

Chairman Supervisory Board

Center for Strategic and International Studies, (CSIS), Indonesia

Dr. Colin Dürkop

Regional Representative

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Singapore

0915 – 1000 hrs

Panel Discussion: Renewing the Commitment to Strengthen Asia – Europe Relations

Mr. Hartmut Nassauer, MEP

Chairperson

ASEAN Delegation, European Parliament, Belgium

Mr. Geoffrey Barrett

Special Adviser Asia

European Commission, Belgium

Mr. Klaus-Jürgen Hedrich

Former Chairman ASEAN Parliamentarians Group

German Bundestag, Germany

Dr. Rizal Sukma

Deputy Executive Director

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Indonesia

Prof. Dr. Carolina G. Hernandez

President

Institute for Strategic and Development Studies (ISDS), Philippines

Dr. Willem van der Geest

Director

European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS), Belgium

1000 – 1030 hrs

Coffee & Tea Break

1030 – 1115 hrs

Panel Discussion (Continuation)

1200 – 1400 hrs

Lunch

1400 – 1530 hrs

Session 1: The Enlargement and Integration of the European Union and East Asia: Rationale, Visions and Development

Co-Chairs:

Prof. Dr. Günter Rinsche

Member of the Board

(Asian Affairs)

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Germany

Prof. Dr. Carolina G. Hernandez

President

Institute for Strategic and Development Studies (ISDS), Philippines

Presenters:

Dr. David Camroux

Senior Research Associate

Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po), France

Dato’ Mohamed Jawhar Hassan

Director-General

Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia

Commentators:

Dr. Sophie Boisseau du Rocher

Associate Researcher

Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), France

Dr. Noel Morada

Executive Director

Institute for Strategic and Development Studies (ISDS), Philippines

1530 – 1600 hrs

Coffee & Tea Break

16:00 – 1730 hrs

Session 2: Challenges and Opportunities in Community-Building in Europe and Asia: The Political, Historical and Security Dimensions

Co-Chairs:

Dr. Sebastian Bersick

Research Fellow

European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS), Belgium

Dr. Chap Sotharith

Executive Director

Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP), Cambodia

Presenters:

Dr. Miguel F Goncalves Neves

Head of the Asia-Programme

Institute for Strategic and International Studies (IEEI), Portugal

Mr. Jusuf Wanandi

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Indonesia

Commentators:

Dr. Cesar de Prado Yepes

Research Fellow

University of Tokyo, Japan, and United Nations University –

Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Belgium

Dr. Charles E. Morrison

President

East-West Center, USA

1930 hrs

Dinner

Wednesday, 23 November 2005

0900 – 1030 hrs

Session 3: Challenges and Opportunities in Community-Building in Europe and East Asia: The Economic Dimension

Co-Chairs:

Ambassador Ksawery Burski

Department of Strategy and Foreign Policy Planning

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

Dr. Simangkhala Souvannakhily

Director of Administration and External Cooperation

Institute of Foreign Affairs (IFA), Laos

Presenters:

Dr. Rainer Schweickert

Research Fellow

Head of Research Division “Stability and Structural Adjustment”

Kiel Institute for World Economics, Germany

Dr. Djisman Simandjuntak

Executive Director

Prasetiya Mulya Business School, Indonesia

Commentators:

Prof. Dr. Zhang Yunling

Director, Institute of Asia Pacific Studies

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), China

Dr. Barbara Müller

Project Manager BMW - Asian Relations

BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt, Germany

1030 – 1100 hrs

Coffee & Tea Break

1100 – 1230 hrs

Session 4: People’s Participation in Community-Building: Europe and East Asia

Co-Chairs:

Ambassador Vassilis Bontosoglou

Head of Delegation

Delegation of the European Commission, Singapore

Ms. Clara Joewono

Vice Chair, Board of Directors

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Indonesia

Presenters:

Ambassador Ion de la Riva

Director-General

Casa Asia, Spain

Mr. Tadashi Yamamoto

President

Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE), Japan

Commentators:

Dr. Gergely Attila

Research Fellow

Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Hungary

Dr. Hoang Ahn Tuan

Assistant Director-General

Institute of International Relations (IIR), Vietnam

1230 – 1400 hrs

Lunch

1400 – 1530 hrs

Concluding Session: Future Prospects for Europe and East Asia / Community-Building

Co-Chairs:

Dr. Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Executive Board Member

Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS), Thailand

Dialogue Summaries

Presenters:

Dr. Willem van der Geest

Director

European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS), Brussels

Dr. Yeo Lay Hwee

Executive Director

Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), Singapore

Closing Remarks

Mr. Jusuf Wanandi

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Indonesia

Dr. Colin Dürkop

Regional Representative

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Singapore

2000 hrs

Farewell Dinner

Thursday, 24 November 2005

Departure of International Participants