Is Rudd's Asia Pacific Community Dead? The Future of Regional and International Cooperation
Event details
Seminar
Date & time
Tuesday 26 October 2010
12.30pm–1.30pm
Venue
Acton Lecture Theatre, #132 JG Crawford Building, ANU
Speaker
Professor Peter Drysdale
Contacts
Asia has emerged from the global financial crisis as an important stabilizing force and
engine of global economic growth. The establishment of the G20 gives Asian economies the
global forum that they have needed to both represent their interests in global governance
and to deliver on their responsibilities concomitant with their growing weight in the global
economy. Asia is now a critical player in the global system and has a central contribution to
make in strengthening global governance and international policy outcomes. But there is still
a disconnect between the regional cooperation and the global agenda. Rudd’s Asia Pacific
Community idea was an attempt to fill one of the critical gaps in regional cooperation and link
the agenda for regional cooperation more effectively to Asia’s new role globally. But where is
that idea going now that America will join the East Asia Summit? And what else is missing?
engine of global economic growth. The establishment of the G20 gives Asian economies the
global forum that they have needed to both represent their interests in global governance
and to deliver on their responsibilities concomitant with their growing weight in the global
economy. Asia is now a critical player in the global system and has a central contribution to
make in strengthening global governance and international policy outcomes. But there is still
a disconnect between the regional cooperation and the global agenda. Rudd’s Asia Pacific
Community idea was an attempt to fill one of the critical gaps in regional cooperation and link
the agenda for regional cooperation more effectively to Asia’s new role globally. But where is
that idea going now that America will join the East Asia Summit? And what else is missing?
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