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IPC Seminar
Topic: "Navigating Geostrategic and Technological Futures: The Opportunities and Challenges of ASEAN-Japan Relations"
Lecturer: Mark Bryan Manantan (Pacific Forum)
Date and Time: Wednesday, 1 November 2023 / 4:30–6:00 p.m. JST
Venue: IDEC Large Conference Room
Language: English
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The 50th anniversary of ASEAN-Japan relations ended on a high note. Marking the momentous occasion was the elevation of the relationship to a comprehensive security partnership. The upgrade was indeed timely, ASEAN and Japan are navigating a very contentious regional environment shaped by the confluence of intensifying US-China rivalry, fraying multilateralism, and the unprecedented wave of technological disruptions. As the celebratory mood of the commemorative summit winds down, ASEAN and Japan are marching to the tempo of increased uncertainty in a highly complex and networked era shaped by geostrategic and technological factors.
Building on his year-long cyber capacity-building engagements, and policy-relevant research on tech diplomacy in Southeast Asia, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, and the United States, Mr. Mark Bryan Manantan will offer three tech trends that will shape the future of ASEAN-Japan relations: Ultra-polarity, Multifurcation, and Technological determinism. He will explore these concepts and attempt to provide recommendations for ASEAN and Japan’s consideration to achieve solid outcomes fit for the turbulent times ahead.
Lecturer's Bio:
Mark Bryan Manantan is the Director of Cybersecurity and Critical Technologies at the Pacific Forum in Honolulu, Hawaii. At the Forum, he currently leads the US Technology and Security partnerships with Japan, Australia, Taiwan, and South Korea and the Cyber ASEAN capacity-building initiative.
Mr. Manantan is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, and formerly a research consultant at the Asia Society Policy Institute, Washington, DC. He has held visiting fellowships at the Japan Foundation, the Center for Rule-Making Strategies at Tama University in Tokyo, Japan, and the East-West Center, in Washington, DC.
Prior to that, he was a media, public relations, and advertising executive for Procter & Gamble, Wells Fargo, Aboitiz Equity Ventures, and UNICEF. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Communication (Magna Cum Laude) at the University of the Philippines Diliman as a Presidential scholarship awardee. A recipient of the Australia Awards scholarship, he also holds a Master of International Relations (with Honours) from the Australian National University.
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International Peace and Co-existence Program
This cross-disciplinary program aims to consolidate students’ basic knowledge and to enhance their critical thinking skills in the academic disciplines of Peace Studies, Cultural Anthropology, International Relations, Law, Ethics, Area Studies, and Memory Studies under the common key concept of “Peace and Co-existence.”
Students can choose a subject area and a specific topic to conduct independent research, with guidance from the academic staff who specialize in a variety of research fields, including nuclear damage, armed conflict, and the interrelations between development and culture. Other research interests include social inequalities stemming from issues of poverty, gender, ethnicity and religion as well as war and ethics, and security and nuclear weapons.
