3rd Asia Pacific Regional Security Dialogue Resumés of participants
Amitav Acharya
Amitav Acharya is Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he also holds a professorship. He has been a Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto and held fellowships at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (1987-89), Harvard Asia Centre (2000-1), and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2000-1). He taught at the National University of Singapore (1990-92) and Harvard University (2001), and holds an ASEM Chair in Regional Integration at the Europe-Asia Institute, University of Malaya in 2003. Among his latest publications are Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order (Routledge, 2001), and Regionalism and Multilateralism: Essays on Cooperative Security in the Asia Pacific 2nd edition (Eastern Universities Press, 2003). He is a member of the Eminent Persons/Expert Group of the ASEAN Regional Forum. He sits in the editorial board of the journals Pacific Review, Pacific Affairs, and Global Governance. His areas of specialization include regionalism and multilateralism, and Asian regional security and international relations theory. He is currently working on a book on the normative origins of Asian regional order has completed two essays: 'Whose Ideas Matter? Norm Localization and Institutional Change in Asian Regionalism', International Organization , vol. 58, no. 2 (Spring 2004); and 'Will Asia's Past be Its Future?', International Security , vol. 28, no.3 (Winter 1993-94).
Kim Beazley
Honourable Kim Christian Beazley, Federal Member for Brand, has served in the Federal Parliament since 1980, when he contested and won the Perth metropolitan seat of Swan in a general election. He held the electorate of Swan in every subsequent election up to and including 1993, before moving to the seat of Brand in 1996. His Ministerial career began on 11 March 1983 in the first Hawke Government. He was appointed as Minister for Aviation and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence and was the youngest member of the ministry at the time of his appointments. On 13 December 1984, Kim Beazley became the youngest ever Australian Defence Minister, and the sixth Western Australian to hold that position. He also served as a Special Minister of State from 14 July 1983 until 21 January 1984. On 15 February 1988 Kim Beazley was appointed Government Leader in the House of Representatives and Vice-President of the Executive Council. In April 1990, following a general election, Kim Beazley was appointed Minister for Transport and Communications. He also served as Finance Minister from 9-27 December 1991, before being appointed to the portfolio of Minister for Employment Education and Training. He was re-appointed to the Finance portfolio in December 1993. On 20 June 1995, the Federal Labor Caucus elected Kim Beazley as Deputy Prime Minister, a position he held until the general election on 2 March 1996. Kim Beazley was elected as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party on 19 March 1996 and he held this position until the general election in 2001. Kim C Beazley was educated at the University of Western Australia and at Oxford University and has Masters degrees in Arts and Philosophy. He is a former Rhodes Scholar, and was a lecturer in social and political theory at Murdoch University, Western Australia.
Farhan Bokhari
Farhan Bokhari lives in Rawalpindi and has been the Pakistan correspondent for the Financial Times (London) for many years. He is also a frequent participant and observer at regional dialogues, conferences and high level security meetings. In 2003, Mr Bokhari was appointed an Hon. Research Fellow of the Monash Asia Institute.
Steven Clemons
As Executive Vice President of the New America Foundation, Steven Clemons is responsible for overseeing the Foundation's Strategic Initiatives and is deeply involved in the organization's foreign policy and international economic policy initiatives and policy work. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute (ESI), where he helped to manage ESI and coordinated one of the best-known annual conferences on international economic and trade policy. From 1995-97, Mr. Clemons served as Senior Policy Advisor for Economic and International Affairs to U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman. Before that, he served as the first Executive Director of the Nixon Center, a public policy center linked to the Richard Nixon Library. From 1987-93, he was Executive Director of the Japan America Society of Southern California, and in 1993 he co-founded the Japan Policy Research Institute with Asia specialist Chalmers Johnson. Mr. Clemons writes and speaks frequently on domestic and international economic policy matters and on U.S.-Japan and Asia Pacific economic and security issues. For a list of his recent publications see:
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M Asad Durrani
Lt Gen (R) Asad Durrani was born on 7 February 1941. He graduated in science from Government College Lahore in 1959, and was commissioned from the Pakistan Military Academy in 1960. During his 34 years with the Army, he held a number of commands, staff and instructional appointments, and took part in the two wars against India (1965 and 1971). Some of his noteworthy employment included instructorship at the Military Academy and Command and Staff College Quetta; Director General of the Military Intelligence (MI) and later of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI); head of the training and the doctrine branch at the GHQ; and Commandant National Defence College. He retired in May 1993. Gen. Durrani was at the German General Staff Academy in 1975, and served as Pakistan's defence attaché in Germany from 1980 to 1984. After retirement from the Army he was Pakistan's Ambassador to the Federal Republic (1994 to 1997) and, post military coup, to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2000 to 2002). He has been a frequent participant in seminars and workshops related to his experience. Sponsors for his visits and talks have included IISS London, the Pugwash, and various political foundations in Germany.
Geetha Govindasamy
Ms Geetha Govindasamy is Lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She has a M.Phil from Queens College, Cambridge University and a M.A from the International University of Japan. Her main research interests focus on the East Asian international relations and security of Asia Pacific. Her publications include 'Malaysia: A Congruence of Interests', (Co-author with K.S Nathan) in Muthiah Alagappa (ed)Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2001, and 'North Korea-United States Relations,' in David Levinson and Karen Christensen, et al., (eds), Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002. She is currently involved in two projects entitled 'The Korean Connection in the Look East Policy' and A Preliminary Study of South Korea's Involvement in ASEAN Plus Three' under the ASEAN-Korea Academic Exchange Programme 2001. In addition, she is also collaborating with a number of academics in a University Malaya funded project entitled 'Malaysia's Policy Towards East Asia.'
Liisa Laakso
Dr. Liisa Laakso is a Docent in Development Studies and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki. She is a member of Advisory Group of CONCORD (European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development), a Think Tank looking at the relations between NGOs and the European Institutions in this field and a co-convenor of the EADI (European Association of Development Research and Activities Training Institutes) Working Group on Governance. Her research interests include peace and conflict research, crisis management, development co-operation, the state, elections and democracy. She has expertise on the research questions related to ethnic conflicts, promotion of multi-party democracy and human rights, political conditionality, structural adjustment, the Cotonou Agreement and the civilian crisis management capabilities of the European Union and the African Union. She is co-editor and contributor of Challenges to the Nation-state in Africa (1996), Multi-party Elections in Africa (2002) and Twenty Years of Independence in Zimbabwe, From Liberation to Authoritarianism (2003). Her articles have appeared in Current Research on Peace and Violence, Journal of Modern African Studies, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Studies, Nordic Journal of African Studies, Journal of International Development and International Journal of Development Issues. During the last two years she has also been working with a wide range of European colleagues in setting up an EU consortium on global security.
Hamish McDonald
Hamish McDonald has reported extensively on Asia and written a number of books namely The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani;Suharto's Indonesia; and Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra(with Desmond Ball). He is currently based in Beijing as the foreign correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne respectively.
Oliver Mendelsohn
Oliver Mendelsohn finished his term as Dean of La Trobe University's Law School at the end of 2003. He teaches Australian and comparative constitutional law, is a long-time student of Indian legal and social affairs, and is co-author (with Marika Vicziany) of The Untouchables - Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India (Cambridge 1998). He is editor of the international journal Law in Context. He delivered a paper in April 2003 to a conference in Onati, Spain on the Indian legislative response to terrorism post-9/11; a revised version is in press with Hart.
Noel M Morada
Dr Noel M Morada is Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, The Philippines, and Executive Director of the Institute for Strategic and Development Studies (ISDS), Inc., an independent think tank affiliated with the regional ASEAN Institutes of Strategic and International Studies (ASEAN-ISIS). He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois, USA in 2002 (under a Fulbright scholarship) where he was also awarded the Gerald Maryanov Fellow for academic excellence. His areas of specialization include Southeast Asian security, Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia, and ASEAN relations with China, Japan, and the US . Dr. Morada's publications include: 'The Philippines: State vs. Civil Society?' in Muthiah Alagappa (ed.) Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences (Stanford University Press, 1998); "The Revived Philippine- US Security Alliance: Exploring Mutuality of Interests in the Fight Against International Terrorism", Southeast Asian Affairs 2003 (ISEAS, Singapore); "The Fight Against Terrorism in Southeast Asia After the Iraq War", Panorama (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Singapore); and "ASEAN and the Rise of China: Engaging (While Fearing) an Emerging Regional Power", Asia Pacific Agenda Project (Japan Centre for International Exchange, forthcoming).
S.D. Muni
Professor Muni is a scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and is the author of numerous books and articles about regional security in south Asia, southeast Asia and the Himalayan region. He has been a frequent participant in regional security delegations and dialogues and was also the Indian Ambassador to Laos 1997-1999. He was nominated to the first ever constituted National Security Advisory Board of India in 1990-91, and has served as an elected member of the Executive of the Institute For Defence and Strategic Studies, New Delhi during the early 1990s. His latest publications are China's Strategic Engagement with the New ASEAN published by IDSS, Singapore, 2002, and Maoist Insurgency In Nepal, Rupa & Co. New Delhi, 2003. A regular visitor to Australia, he was made an Honorary Research Fellow of the Monash Asia Institute in 2003.
K S Nathan
Dr. K.S. Nathan was born and educated in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He holds a B.A. Hons. (Class 2 Upper) in History, from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur (l97l); Ph.D. in International Relations from Claremont Graduate University in California, USA (1975); LL.B. Hons(Class 2 Upper) from the University of London(1992), Certificate in Legal Practice (CLP) from the Legal Profession Qualifying Board, Malaysia[April 1996], and LL.M. from the University of London [November 1996]. He is also a college-trained teacher, having obtained a Certificate in Education (Cert.Ed.) in 1966. Dr. Nathan was appointed Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of History, University of Malaya, from l975-l983. He was promoted to Associate Professor of International Relations in l984, and with effect from January 1994, Dr. Nathan was promoted to Full Professor. He assumed his current appointment as Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies(ISEAS) in Singapore with effect from 1st April 2001, and is currently the Editor of the ISEAS Journal Contemporary Southeast Asia . Prof. Nathan was appointed Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, between l982-l984, and has also served as the first president of the Malaysian International Affairs Forum (MIAF), and the Malaysian Association for American Studies (MAAS), both of which were founded in l983. Dr. Nathan was also a Visiting Scholar at several leading academic and research institutes including: Harvard University (l980-8l), the USSR Academy of Sciences(1984), University of California, Berkeley(l986-87), the Swedish Institute, Stockholm (1991), the University of Madras(1992), the Japan Institute of International Affairs(JIIA), Tokyo(1995), the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre(SDSC) of the Australian National University, Canberra (1996), International University of Japan(IUJ), Niigata, Japan(1998), and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies(ISEAS), Singapore(1999-2000). He is also the current President of the Malaysian Association for American Studies(MAAS), and serves on the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of International Affairs. Professor Nathan has several publications including five books (one as author, and six as editor), including Detente and Soviet Policy in Southeast Asia (1984), Trilateralism in Asia: US -Japan-ASEAN Relations (1986), American Studies in Malaysia: Current State and Future Direction (1986), North America & the Asia-Pacific in the 21st Century: Challenges & Prospects for Cooperative Security and Prosperity (1999), and India and ASEAN: The Growing Partnership for the 21st Century (2000), The European Union, United States and ASEAN: Challenges and Prospects for Cooperative Engagement in the 21st Century , which was published by ASEAN Academic Press, London in 2002, and numerous articles in local, regional, and international journals. His teaching, research, and publications are largely in the area of strategic studies, big power relations in the Asia-Pacific region, ASEAN regionalism, and Malaysian politics, security, and foreign policy. More recently, his research interests include political Islam and terrorism in Southeast Asia.
Takashi Sakamoto
Takashi Sakamoto is a staff writer for the International News Department of The Yomiuri Shimbun, the most widely circulated newspaper in Japan. Mr. Sakamoto has been covering international affairs as a Yomiuri journalist for more than 15 years. He was New Delhi Bureau Chief from 1990 to 1993 and a Washington correspondent from 1996 to 2001. He has written a wide range of reports ranging from the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi to the Monica Lewinsky scandal, although his stories have been mostly about diplomacy and politics. He was also a roving correspondent in the US for about 5 months immediately after the 9/11 incident.
Ben Sheppard
Ben Sheppard is a Research Associate at the King's Centre for Risk Management, King's College London where he is leading projects into societal responses to terrorism and ballistic missile proliferation in South and Northeast Asia. His core expertise is in defence and international security issues focusing on terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Prior to joining King's in 2003, Sheppard was a defence analyst at Jane's Information Group. Sheppard has publications in Jane's Defence Weekly , Jane's Intelligence Review , The Bulletin on Arms Control , and The War Studies Journal . He also has a chapter on missile proliferation in India and Pakistan in a book titled Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), and co-authored and edited a Jane's Special Report titled " Ballistic Missile Proliferation: Identifying the Real Threats ". He received his MSc Econ in Strategic Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1996, after concluding a BSc Econ (Hons) in International Politics at the same institution. He is currently undertaking a PhD in the War Studies Department, King's College London, on terror and terrorism.
Paul van Tongeren
Paul van Tongeren is the Executive Director of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention. In 1997 he organised the European Conference on Conflict Prevention that brought together over 1,300 persons from around the world. This conference resulted in the establishment of the European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation and its secretariat, the European Centre for Conflict Prevention, of which he is now the Executive Director. The European Centre for Conflict Prevention is a non-governmental organisation that promotes effective conflict prevention and peace-building strategies, and actively supports and connects people working for peace worldwide. Paul van Tongeren was the initiator of the Searching for Peace programme that aims at recording, describing and analysing prevention and management efforts in the main violent conflicts in the world. Surveys of these efforts are produced per region, as well as complementary directories, which contain profiles of the main local and international NGOs working in the field of peace building and conflict prevention. The results are published in a series of books as well as on the European Platform's website. Three books has been published so far in the series; Searching for Peace in Africa (October 1999), Europe and Eurasia (February 2002) and Central and South Asia (October2002) and a publication on Asia & the Pacific is planned for spring 2004. The most recent programme the ECCP initiated is the "Role of Civil Society and NGOs in the Prevention of Armed Conflict - Towards an International NGO Conference at the UN", responding to recommendation 27 in Kofi Annan's report "The Prevention of Armed Conflict" in which Annan urges that NGOs with an interest in conflict prevention organise "an international conference of local, national and international NGOs on their role in conflict prevention and future interaction with United Nations in this field". This three-year integrated programme of research, consultation and discussion will include a dozen regional conferences leading up to an international conference at the UN Headquarters in 2005.
Lambang Trijono
Dr Lambang Trijono is a political sociologist, peace researcher and peace advocate from Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. He is the Head of the Centre for Security and Peace Studies (CSPS), and lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Science, Gadjah Mada University, the Post-Graduate Program of Sociology, and Master Program of Peace and Conflict Resolution, CSPS, Gadjah Mada University. Now, he is also working as a national coordinator of SEACSN (Southeast Asia Conflict Studies Networks)-Indonesia, from 2001 until 2006.
Roger Uren
Roger Uren is currently the Vice President for International Affairs of Phoenix Satellite Television Limited, a Chinese-language broadcaster that is based in Hong Kong. Before taking up his position at Phoenix he was Assistant Secretary in charge of the Asia Branch in the Office of National Assessments, which is the Australian government's premier agency for analyzing international political, economic and strategic trends. He occupied this position from January 1994 until September 2001. Roger Uren commenced his career with the Australian government in 1974, when he joined the Department of Foreign Affairs as a diplomatic officer. Besides working in the headquarters in Canberra, he served in the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur from 1975 through 1977; the Australian Embassy in Beijing from 1981 through 1984; and the Australian Embassy in Washington, from 1987 through to 1990, where he was the counsellor responsible for handling Asia-related issues. Roger Uren has also published extensively on Chinese history, politics and culture under the pseudonym John Byron. He is the author of The Claws of the Dragon, a biography of Kang Sheng, a one-time vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the Chinese Communist intelligence apparatus; Portrait of a Chinese Paradise, a study of late Qing dynasty erotic art, and The China Lovers, a spy novel set in Beijing in the early 1980s. He has also published occasional book reviews and essays on Chinese literature in The Washington Post. Roger Uren was educated at Carey Grammar School in Melbourne, and at the University of Melbourne, where he studied law, Chinese language and literature and Indonesian. He completed a Master of Arts degree in Melbourne University in 1973. He spent a year studying at the Mandarin Center at Taiwan Normal University from 1971 through 1972. Besides Chinese, he also speaks Bahasa Indonesia.
Philips J. Vermonte
Philips J. Vermonte is currently a researcher at Department of International Relations at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta, Indonesia since July 2001. He is also a visiting lecturer at Department of International Relations, Paramadina University in Jakarta. His current research interests span: Non-traditional security issue, including terrorism and small arms trafficking; Southeast Asian security issue; Indonesian defence and foreign policy and Conflict and democratisation studies. Mr Vermonte received his Masters degree in international studies from Department of Politics, the University of Adelaide, Australia in 2001 funded by the AUSAID scholarship. The title of his thesis was Democratisation and Foreign Policy: the Case of Indonesia. He has published numerous articles in various newspapers and academic journals and has also presented papers in many conferences on the subject of his research interests. Mr. Vermonte was a member of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA), South Australia Chapter, from August 1999 - August 2000. Currently, he is actively involved in the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Transnational Crime Working Group.
Marika Vicziany
Professor Vicziany ( PhD , SOAS, London, 1975) is the Director of the Monash Asia Institute at Monash University and a specialist on South Asia. In 1998 with Oliver Mendelsohn she co-authored The Untouchables: Poverty, Subordination and the State in Modern India (Cambridge University Press). In recent years she has also been writing on western China, beginning with a series of reports on poverty, women and minorities for the Asian Development Bank's The 2020 Project: Policy support in the People's Republic of China (Manila, December 2002). Her special interest is in 'New Security' issues that link mass poverty and minority problems to domestic and international security. In 1998/1999 she initiated the security dialogues on South Asia in Melbourne, Washington DC and New York and in May 2002 the regional dialogues in Prato (Italy) and London (with the Monash Centres in Europe and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies). The Prato dialogue has resulted in a book: Marika Vicziany, David Wright-Neville and Pete Lentini (eds.), Regional Security in the Asia Pacific: 9/11 and after (Edward Elgar, London/Mass.USA ; in press). For information about the Monash Asia Institute's security research program see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/virtualforum/index.html and the archives file for information about the previous dialogues and symposia.
N.N. Vohra
Formerly Director of the India International Centre, in early 2003 Dr N.N. Vohra was appointed as the Representative of the Government of India for the Jammu and Kashmir Dialogue. He has a long history of service in the internal and international security of India, including work during the Sino-Indian conflict (1962). He was Home Secretary Punjab in 1984-1985, then Secretary of Defence and Defence Production and Union Home Secretary 1993-1994. He has played an important role in various security dialogues as Principal Secretary to the Indian Prime Minister in 1997-1998, Member of the National Security Advisory Board (1998-2001), Chairman of the National Task Force on Internal Security (2000), Co-Chairman of the India-EU Round Table (since 2001) and Chairman of the Military History Review Committee (2001 ongoing).
Dennis Woodward
Dr Dennis Woodward is a Senior Lecturer in Politics in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. He is a China specialist whose writings about the Chinese People's Liberation Army have been published in various collections by C. Mackerras, A. Watson, G. Young and B. Brugger.
David Wright-Neville
Dr Wright-Neville is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Convener of the Global Terrorism Research Unit in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University, where his current research focuses on cultural conflict and political violence in Asia. Until recently Dr Wright-Neville was a senior intelligence analyst with the Australian government, specializing in Southeast Asia. Prior to this he held positions at both Monash University and the University of Melbourne. He has also co-edited: Marika Vicziany, David Wright-Neville and Pete Lentini (eds.), Regional Security in the Asia Pacific: 9/11 and after (Edward Elgar, London/Mass.USA; in press).
Samina Yasmeen
Dr Samina Yasmeen is a senior lecturer at the University of Western Australia, Perth. She is a specialist in political and strategic developments in South Asia, the role of Islam in world politics, and gender issues among Muslim migrants in Australia. Yasmeen has published articles on the position of Pakistani and Middle Eastern women, and is currently working on the role of Islamic groups in Pakistan's foreign policy.