Strategic Diplomacy for 21st Century Defence and Statecraft - Launch

Add to Calendar 2023-12-11 17:00:00 2023-12-11 18:30:00 Strategic Diplomacy for 21st Century Defence and Statecraft - Launch How best should key strategic partners in Asia and Europe meet their future defence and security needs in a world that offers less policy space and more complex problems? This project examines four significant cases – Japan, Singapore, Germany, and the UK – which share many contemporary security challenges. The launch event will feature a roundtable discussion with the project leads and their country rapporteurs presenting their findings about how those countries mobilise power and exercise statecraft within a world that gives them less control over the outcomes they want to achieve. SPEAKERS Professor Jochen Prantl, ANU Professor Evelyn Goh, ANU Professor Sven Biscop, Egmont–Royal Institute for International Relations Dr. Yusuke Ishihara, National Institute for Defence Studies Mr. Paul Chamberlain, ANU Shine Dome, Australian Academy of Science ANU COLLEGE OF ASIA & THE PACIFIC cap.web@anu.edu.au Australia/Sydney public

Strategic Diplomacy project, hero image. Jochen Prantl 2017

How best should key strategic partners in Asia and Europe meet their future defence and security needs in a world that offers less policy space and more complex problems? This project examines four significant cases – Japan, Singapore, Germany, and the UK – which share many contemporary security challenges.

How best should key strategic partners in Asia and Europe meet their future defence and security needs in a world that offers less policy space and more complex problems?

This project examines four significant cases – Japan, Singapore, Germany, and the UK – which share many contemporary security challenges.

The launch event will feature a roundtable discussion with the project leads and their country rapporteurs presenting their findings about how those countries mobilise power and exercise statecraft within a world that gives them less control over the outcomes they want to achieve.

SPEAKERS

Professor Jochen Prantl, ANU
Professor Evelyn Goh, ANU
Professor Sven Biscop, Egmont–Royal Institute for International Relations
Dr. Yusuke Ishihara, National Institute for Defence Studies
Mr. Paul Chamberlain, ANU

Event Speakers

Jochen Prantl

Jochen Prantl is Professor of International Relations at the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. He was Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy in 2015-16, Deputy Director (International Engagement) in 2017-18 for the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, and Associate Dean (International) in 2022-25 for the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

Evelyn Goh

Evelyn Goh is the Shedden Professor of Strategic Policy Studies at the Australian National University, where she is also Research Director at the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre. She has published widely on U.S.-China relations and diplomatic history, regional security order in East Asia, Southeast Asian strategies towards great powers, and environmental security.

Paul Chamberlain

Paul Chamberlain is a PhD scholar at The Australian National University, located at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs.