International Convention of Asia Scholars 4
20 - 24 August 2005
Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Shanghai, China

Theme: The Future of Asia

Co-Organised by The International Institute for Asian Studies and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

Dr. Sebastian Bersick organised and chaired a panel on 'Multi-regionalism and Asian-European Affairs' on behalf of the European Alliance for Asian Studies. The panel focused on the institutionalization of intraregional and interregional cooperation in the international system and, in particular, on the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process.

The papers analysed four empirical examples of the politics of interregional relations thereby focusing both on the intraregional and interregional level of cooperation.

The panel brought together distinguished experts from Europe, North America and South America who discussed the effects of intraregional cooperation on the behavior of state actors. Do Asian-European affairs and its inherent model of an international system consisting of multiple regional actors constitute the contours of a new multi-regional world order? What then is the role of the EU, East Asia, India and of the Americas?

More information can be found on the ICAS Secretariat website