Emerging U.S. Security Partnerships in Southeast Asia

Join us to hear perspectives from the Asia-Pacific region on the prospects for emerging U.S. security partnerships in Southeast Asia. Part of a project at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, and supported by the MacArthur Foundation, regional experts will present three newly-released studies assessing how three Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Myanmar, and Vietnam - are developing closer security-related ties with the United States and balancing them against relations with China. Based on field research by some of the world's leading experts on these three countries, the studies offer an up-to-date assessment of U.S. and Chinese engagement in the dynamic Southeast Asia region.

Studies to be available:

Jurgen Haacke
Myanmar and the United States: Prospects for a limited security partnership

Natasha Hamilton-Hart and Dave McRae
Indonesia: Balancing the United States and China, aiming for independence

Bill Hayton
Vietnam and the United States: An emerging security partnership

10:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

Michael J. Green
Senior Vice President for Asia & Japan Chair, CSIS
Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Georgetown University

10:15 a.m. Panel Presentations and Discussions

Bates Gill
Visiting Professor, United States Studies Centre,University of Sydney

Evelyn Goh
Shedden Professor of Strategic Policy Studies
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Chin-Hao Huang
Assistant Professor of Political Science
National University of Singapore Yale College

Commentators:

Evan Medeiros
Managing Director and Practice Head for Asia
Eurasia Group

Ernest Z. Bower
Senior Adviser and Chair for Southeast Asia Studies
CSIS

Moderator:

Michael J. Green
Senior Vice President for Asia & Japan Chair, CSIS
Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Georgetown University

12:00 p.m. Adjourn