[ANU Pacific.Institute] REMINDER - AFA15 Our Unstable Neighbourhood: The Contest for Southeast Asia - Thurs 1 Sept - Register now for in-person & online event.

Tue Aug 30 19:16:35 AEST 2022

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ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
in collaboration with
Australia Foreign Affairs.
Our Unstable Neighbourhood:
THE CONTEST FOR SOUTH-EAST ASIA

REMINDER TO REGISTER FOR EVENT THIS THURSDAY EVENING
In-person and online panel event

Date: Thursday 1 September
Time: 5.30 - 7pm AEST (UTC+10)
Venue: ONLINE in Zoom
IN-PERSON: Auditorium, RSSS Building #146,
Ellery Crescent, ANU, Acton 2601 ACT
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The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the challenges confronting South-East Asia as it finds itself at the epicentre of the rivalry between the United States and China.

AFA15 - Our Unstable Neighbourhood: The contest for South-East Asia<https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/our-unstable-neighbourhood> looks at the fragile state of democracy and the growing threat of instability in the region, as well as the risks for Australia as it navigates ties with nations which have vastly differing interests and outlooks.

In this panel discussion, leading researchers will explore the topics covered in AFA issue 15. Copies of the issue will be available for purchase.
Presented by the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, in collaboration with Australian Foreign Affairs journal, this panel discussion will be held in-person and online in zoom - dual delivery.
Panel
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Allan Gyngell AO
Allan Gyngell is National President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, a member of the Board of China Matters and an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. His long career in Australian foreign policy included appointments as Director-General of the Office of National Assessments, founding Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, and to senior positions in the Office of the Prime Minister, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He served as an Australian diplomat in Yangon, Singapore and Washington.

He has written widely on Australian foreign policy and is the author of Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942 and, with Michael Wesley, Making Australian Foreign Policy. He is co-presenter with Dr Darren Lim of the podcast Australia in the World. He is an Officer in the Order of Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
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Prof John Blaxland
John Blaxland is Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC), Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, at The Australian National University (ANU). He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. He is also a former military intelligence officer, a former Head of SDSC and Director of the Southeast Asia Institute at ANU and is an occasional media commentator.

His publications include:

  *   The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International Relations, (2021)
  *   Niche Wars: Australia in Afghanistan and Iraq (ANU Press, 2020)
  *   In From the Cold: Reflections on Australia’s Korean War, 1950-1953, (ANU Press, 2020)
  *   The Secret Cold War: the official history of ASIO, Vol. III (Allen & Unwin 2016)
  *   The Protest Years: the official history of ASIO, Vol., II (Allen & Unwin, 2015

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A/Prof Pichamon Yeophantong
Pichamon Yeophantong is Associate Professor and Head of Research at the Centre for Future Defence and National Security, Deakin University at the Australian War College. She is also an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. Trained as a political scientist and China specialist, one of her ongoing projects focuses on Chinese foreign policy and investment strategies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Pichamon currently serves as the Member from Asia-Pacific States on the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. She also sits on the Advisory Committee of the Australian Water Partnership, as well as the Board and Research Committee of the Jubilee Australia Research Centre. Previously, Pichamon held academic positions at UNSW, Princeton University, and the University of Oxford. She is also the recipient of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences’ 2018 Australia Future Leader Prize.
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Chair: A/Prof Sue Thompson
Dr Sue Thompson is an associate professor at the ANU’s National Security College. She researches on Southeast Asian security during the Cold War. Her work has been published in leading journals and she is the author of The United States and Southeast Asian Regionalism: Collective Security and Economic Development, 1945-75, (Routledge 2019) and British Military Withdrawal from South-East Asia and the Rise of Regional Cooperation, 1964-1973, (Palgrave Macmillan 2015).

Dr Thompson holds a PhD from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor degree with honours from the ANU. Dr Thompson has also worked as a journalist for the Associated Press, a ministerial staffer at Parliament House, a corporate affairs officer at Chatham House and as research coordinator at the Australian Civil Military Centre.
We hope to see you there.
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