Towards a New Global Order?
Ambitions, Scope and Challenges of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Program
| 13:00-13:30 | Welcome Address: Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen) |
| 13:30-15:00 | Session 1: The development strategy of China’s BRI: Ambitions, scope and challenges |
| Chair: Katja Pessl (Göttingen)
Speakers: 1. Uwe Hoering (Stiftung Asienhaus): The Expansion of the Developmental State 2. Liang-Kung Yen (National Chengchi University): Assessing Demand and Progress in China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Global Governance Perspective 3.Bart Dessein (Ghent): The BRI and Central Asia from a historical perspective |
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| 15:00-15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15-16:45 | Session 2: Regional implications and responses to China’s BRI |
| Chair: Bart Dessein (Ghent)
Speakers: 1. Yu Jie (LSE): Money and Might: The uneasy relations between China and Southeast Asia with many belts and roads 2. Fabienne Bossuyt (Ghent): Connecting Eurasia: Is cooperation between the EU, China and Russia in Central Asia possible? 3. Frank Gaenssmantel (Groningen): Seizing the unseizable – the EU and the Belt and Road Initiative |
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| 16:45-17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00-18:30 | Panel Discussion: China’s Belt and Road Initiative – The Emergence of a New Global Order? |
| Moderator: Maria Danilovich (Uppsala)
Panelists: Fabienne Bossuyt (Ghent), Sebastian Harnisch (Heidelberg), Uwe Hoering (Asienhaus), Yu Jie (LSE) Liang-Kung Yen (National Chengchi University) |
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| 18:30 | Workshop Dinner |
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