Conference Archive: KISA 12 | APISA 14

KISA 12th Annual Convention & APISA 14th Congress

New and Future Governance Challenges in East Asia

Date: November 27-28, 2020

Venue: Online from College of International Studies (KIC), Kyung Hee University


The emergence of new threats, like COVID-19, combined with fragmentary approaches dealing with already existing risks, like environmental degradation and climate change, are undermining most aspects of human security, and are challenging forms of governance that, to this day, have been taken for granted. The extent to which these threats are successfully dealt with at the local, national and international level will determine the degree to which governance will be re-shaped to promptly and adequately deal with other, equally challenging risks and insecurities.

On the one hand, the emergence of the virus and the ways in which some governments (particularly in East Asia) shored up their defences, have shown that, at times like this, governance needs to tread a fine balance between guaranteeing welfare and security without the overstepping of boundaries that leads to authoritarianism. On the other hand, continuing damage to the environment means that governments can no longer ignore issues like pollution and ecology, nor can they reject or avoid meaningful cooperation with other governments on the pretext of national security or diplomatic egoisms.

Against this backdrop, KISA’s 12th Annual Convention and APISA’s 14th Congress, in collaboration with Kyung Hee University’s Institute of International Studies (RIIS), invite papers exploring the dynamics that new and future challenges will pose to governance in East Asia.

Conference Outline*

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+9)
All sessions will be held online

Friday, November 27, 2020Saturday, November 28, 2020

08:30-09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

09:00-10:15: PANEL 1: South Korea's Bilateral Relations

Session Chair: Thomas Kalinowski

Securitization Dilemma: Resisting and Embracing Threats in Japan and Korea
Toru Oga et al.

The Development of Science, Technology, and Innovation Field Between Brazil and South Korea
Thyene Ribas Moreira

International Scholarship Students in South Korea: Determinants of Intention to Work in the Host Country After Graduation
Felicia Istad et al.


10:15-10:30: Break


10:30-11:45: PANEL 2: Armed Groups & Human Security

Session Chair: Ioannis Tellidis

Coexistence and Competition of States, Development NGOs, and Armed Groups over Security Governance in Urban Poor Areas in the Philippines
Saya Kiba

Cascading Norms: European Union and Concurrent Tendencies to Norm Diffusion in the Southern Philippines
Jovanie Camacho Espesor

Islamic State, Terrorism and Personal Freedom
Shimaa Hanafy and Moamen Gouda


11:45-12:15: Lunch Break


12:15-13:30: PANEL 3: COVID-19

Session Chair: Mason Richey

South Korea's COVID 19 Crisis Management: Model or Idiosyncrasy?
Thomas Kalinowski et al.

The Dynamics of Sustainability Devolution in a Unitary System: The Case of COVID19 in Metro Manila
Ronald Castillo and Karl Andrew Ramos:

Government Response in the Philippines: Finding the Next Step−Recommending Long-run and Short-run Approaches to Win the Battle against COVID-19
Daniel Hofileña and Marites Tiongco


13:30-14:45 PANEL 4: Cyber Affairs

Session Chair: Boris Kondoch

Social Media, Cybersecurity and the future of Governance in ASEAN
Stella Anne Teoh and Luke Rong Teoh

E-Government Cooperation between the Republic of Korea and ASEAN: Examples for Developing an Effective Cooperation Framework
Alejandro Ramirez and Hyuna Sim

Black Mirror: Digital (non-)Privacy, Human Rights and Cybersecurity
Ioannis Tellidis et al.


14:45-15:00: Break


15:00-16:15: PANEL 5: Regional Security in SE Asia

Session Chair: Erwin Tan

Turning the Tide in the South China Sea: Could Maritime Diplomacy Alter the Seascape?
Ivy Ganadillo

Defending Sovereignty and Democracy - Taiwan's Foreign Policymaking in Times of Crisis
Christian Schafferer

Disguised Escalation: China's Grey Zone Coercion in the South China Sea
Ha Nam Thang

China's Railway Politics: Governmental Challenges and Solutions
Suthida Chang


16:15-16:30: Break


16:30-17:45: PANEL 6: The Nuclear Scene

Session Chair: Eriks Varpahovskis

Catching Mice. Chinese Nuclear Posture and Deng's Reforms (1977-1985)
Lorenzo Termine

Impact of External and Internal Challenges for Political System and Economy of North Korea
Marceli Burdelski

To Stop a Nuke: Trump's Differing Responses to Nuclear Weapons Development in Iran and North Korea
Joel Campbell


17:45-18:00: Break


18:00-19:00: Keynote Presentation

The Evaluation of International Peace
Oliver Richmond, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom

The theories and doctrines related to peacekeeping, mediation, peacebuilding, and state-building, as well as other tools used to end war and conflict, raise a range of long-standing questions about the evolution and integrity of what might be called an international peace architecture. A narrow version of this term has begun to appear in the context of peacebuilding through the UN, the African Union, and the broader, the UN system, the EU, OSCE, NATO, other regional actors, the international legal system, and the IFIs. This article proposes a much broader, historical version, with six main theoretical stages, which have produced a substantial, though fragile, international architecture.

12:00-13:30: Roundtable

The Next US Presidency & the Challenges for Asia
Brendan Howe, Ewha University, South Korea
Kei Koga, Nanyang Technological University, China
Jaewoo Choo, Kyunghee University, South Korea
Yang Xianfeng, Yonsei University, South Korea
Session Chair: Haruko Satoh, IAFOR Research Centre, Japan
Supported by the Korea Foundation


13:30-14:30: Lunch Break


14:30-15:45: PANEL 7: South Korea as a Middle-Power

Session Chair: Joel Campbell

New Southern Policy as Strategic Narrative: Mapping South Korea’s Strategic Positioning in the Emerging Regional Order
Jojin John

South Korean Middle Power Diplomacy in Central Asia
Eriks Varpahovskis

Middle Powers in the Global Trading System
Don Moon


15:45-16:00: Break


16:00-17:00: Keynote Presentation

Building Capacity in Civil Society to Address Emerging Threats
Melissa Hanham

Civil society has gained new prominence with their ability to adapt to the new information economy. Universities and NGOs now break news, monitor government accountability and negotiate in track 1.5 or track 2 formats. However, this development remains uneven across the globe. Melissa Hanham will discuss how civil society is taking on emerging threats that used to be purely in the domain of governments, and what it means for the transparency, ethics and security of those groups and the societies they seek to support.


Keynote Speakers

Oliver Richmond

Biography
Professor Oliver Richmond is a leading scholar in the field of IR, Peace and Conflict Studies. He is founder of the MA in Peace and Conflict Studies and contributes to its core modules in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester. In 2019, he received an Eminent Scholar Award from the International Studies Association. He has worked with international actors, especially the UN, and civil society organisations in several conflict-affected areas around the world, and has also conducted fieldwork on local, state, and international problems of peacebuilding in Timor Leste, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Colombia.

Among his publications are his recent monographs The Grand Design: Peace in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), Peace in International Relations (Routledge, 2020- 2nd Ed.), Peace Formation and Political Order in Conflict Affected Societies (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Failed Statebuilding: Intervention, the State and the Dynamics of Peace Formation (Yale University Press, 2014). He also published a Very Short Introduction to Peace (Oxford University Press, 2014), which offers an overview of the development of related concepts, theory and practices.

He is currently leading several global research projects: including the AHRC-project ‘The Art of Peace’ (with civil society, arts partners in Lebanon, Bosnia, South Africa, and Colombia); the African Research Universities Alliance - UK Research Partnership Programme for Capacity Building in Post-conflict Societies (including universities from Ethiopia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Somaliland/ Somalia, and Zimbabwe); and the Global Challenges Research Fund-project ‘Blockages to Peace’ (including civil society organisations in Colombia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Cyprus, Tunisia, and Sri Lanka). He is also a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Tubingen in Germany, Coimbra in Portugal, and Dublin City, Ireland.

Keynote Presentation
The Evaluation of International Peace Architecture

The theories and doctrines related to peacekeeping, mediation, peacebuilding, and state-building, as well as other tools used to end war and conflict, raise a range of long-standing questions about the evolution and integrity of what might be called an international peace architecture. A narrow version of this term has begun to appear in the context of peacebuilding through the UN, the African Union, and the broader, the UN system, the EU, OSCE, NATO, other regional actors, the international legal system, and the IFIs. This article proposes a much broader, historical version, with six main theoretical stages, which have produced a substantial, though fragile, international architecture.


Melissa Hanham

Biography
Melissa Hanham is the Deputy Director of Open Nuclear Network and Director of the Datayo Project at One Earth Future Foundation. Hanham is an expert on open-source intelligence, incorporating satellite and aerial imagery, and other remote sensing data, large data sets, social media, 3D modeling, and GIS mapping. She is particularly focused on the monitoring and verification of international arms control agreements using open-source evidence. Hanham also uses open-source information to study export-control systems and proliferation finance activities.

Melissa Hanham is a regular contributor to Arms Control Wonk, the leading blog and podcast on disarmament, arms control, and nonproliferation. In 2018, she was awarded the Paul Olum Grant Fund for being one of the most inventive scientific and technical minds working to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons. She previously worked at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, CA and the International Crisis Group in Seoul and Beijing.

Keynote Presentation
Building Capacity in Civil Society to Address Emerging Threats

Civil society has gained new prominence with their ability to adapt to the new information economy. Universities and NGOs now break news, monitor government accountability and negotiate in track 1.5 or track 2 formats. However, this development remains uneven across the globe. Melissa Hanham will discuss how civil society is taking on emerging threats that used to be purely in the domain of governments, and what it means for the transparency, ethics and security of those groups and the societies they seek to support.


Conference Catch-up

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Friday, November 27

PANEL 1: South Korea’s Bilateral Relations

PANEL 2: Armed Groups & Human Security


PANEL 3: COVID-19

PANEL 4: Cyber Affairs


PANEL 5: Regional Security in SE Asia

PANEL 6: The Nuclear Scene


Keynote Presentation: The Evaluation of International Peace


Saturday, November 28

Roundtable: The Next US Presidency
& the Challenges for Asia

PANEL 7: South Korea as a Middle-Power


Keynote Presentation: Building Capacity in Civil Society to Address Emerging Threats