The South China Sea and Re-Assessing Regional Order in Asia

Conference/Symposium | September 7 – 8, 2012 every day | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

The seas of East and Southeast Asia have become a flashpoint in international relations among Asian nations. With China's growing political influence, its claims to territory, resources, and access have generated not only varying degrees of resistance and conflict, but a renegotiating of relations across the region and internationally. Most recently, the South China Sea has emerged as the site of contested space. With participants from the fields of international relations, political science, history, and law, this two-day conference explores the historical background of the South China Sea crisis; the legal issues involved, including interpreting the Law of the Sea in the current context; the South China Sea not only as a source of energy and food but in terms of strategic significance; the further complications posed by the uneasy thaw in relations between China and Taiwan; the play not only of government action but of public response; and finally what the current maneuvering signals for the future of Asia.
Go to http://ieas.berkeley.edu/southchinasea to view the conference website.

Participants include: Richard Buxbaum, UC Berkeley

Lowell Dittmer, UC Berkeley

Penny Edwards, UC Berkeley

Donald K. Emmerson, Stanford University

Xing Hang, Brandeis University

Alexander Huang, Tamkang University

Su Lin Lewis, UC Berkeley

Chong-Pin Lin, Taiwan National Defense University

Micah Muscolino, Georgetown University

TJ Pempel, UC Berkeley

Ben Purser, University of Colorado

David Rosenberg, Middlebury College

Harry Scheiber, UC Berkeley

Dingli Shen, Fudan University, China

Yann-Huei Song, Academia Sinica

Jae-Jung Suh, Johns Hopkins University

Alex Wang, UC Berkeley

Litai Xue, Stanford University

Wen-Hsin Yeh, UC Berkeley

Go to http://ieas.berkeley.edu/southchinasea to view the conference website.

Event Contact: ieas@berkeley.edu, 510-642-2809