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Evocative and enigmatic, the Silk Road occupies a unique place in contemporary culture and international affairs. Across the world, it has captured the imagination as a story of camel caravans crossing desert and mountain, of precious goods moving between East and West, and of ideas, religions and technologies migrating across land and sea. But what exactly is the Silk Road? And as China seeks to “revive” the Silk Roads - maritime and overland - for the twenty-first century, why does this compelling, yet poorly understood, narrative of history now serve as a platform for building trade, diplomatic, infrastructure and geopolitical connections?
The Silk Road: Connecting Histories and Futures is the first book to critically investigate this fabled geocultural narrative of history, and map out the role it plays in international affairs. This lecture will trace its rise to global fame as a domain of scholarship and foreign policy, a celebration of peace and internationalism, and the ways it created dreams of exploration and grand adventure. China’s Health Silk Road and civilizational futures are among the themes discussed that open up the Silk Roads as a space for critical enquiry.
The talk introduces the book’s new reading of this increasingly important concept, and discusses why greater attention needs to be given to geocultural politics today.
Speaker: Prof. Tim Winter, Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Chairperson: Dr. Marina Kaneti, Assistant Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
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Evocative and enigmatic, the Silk Road occupies a unique place in contemporary culture and international affairs. Across the world, it has captured the imagination as a story of camel caravans crossing desert and mountain, of precious goods moving between East and West, and of ideas, religions and technologies migrating across land and sea. But what exactly is the Silk Road? And as China seeks to “revive” the Silk Roads - maritime and overland - for the twenty-first century, why does this compelling, yet poorly understood, narrative of history now serve as a platform for building trade, diplomatic, infrastructure and geopolitical connections?
The Silk Road: Connecting Histories and Futures is the first book to critically investigate this fabled geocultural narrative of history, and map out the role it plays in international affairs. This lecture will trace its rise to global fame as a domain of scholarship and foreign policy, a celebration of peace and internationalism, and the ways it created dreams of exploration and grand adventure. China’s Health Silk Road and civilizational futures are among the themes discussed that open up the Silk Roads as a space for critical enquiry.
The talk introduces the book’s new reading of this increasingly important concept, and discusses why greater attention needs to be given to geocultural politics today.
Speaker: Prof. Tim Winter, Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Chairperson: Dr. Marina Kaneti, Assistant Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
#GovernancefortheFuture #publicpolicy #policymatters
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Discover the journey of LKYSPPs Master in International Affairs (MIA) alumnus, Matthew Kelly.
He shares about his transformative time at LKYSPP - how his learning and immersion in the diverse communities at the School and in Singapore, has broadened his perspective in approaching global challenges.
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![[Next STEP 2023] Closing Fireside Chat with Mr Ravi Menon on Responses to Geo-Economic Fragmentation](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l8G29melAlU/mqdefault.jpg "[Next STEP 2023] Closing Fireside Chat with Mr Ravi Menon on Responses to Geo-Economic Fragmentation
3rd annual Next STEP Conference Closing Fireside Chat with Ravi Menon, Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore, on Response to Geo-Economic Fragmentation.
The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) at the National University of Singapore are convening the third annual Next STEP Global Conference on November 5-7, 2023, in Singapore.
This years conference will focus on how the intensification of US-China competition has put much of the world in a bind. Economies caught in the middle-those that do not count themselves among the G7 plus China-contain 80 percent of the worlds population and are participants in the vast majority of cross-national transactions. Their interests are at stake, but how should they proceed when the two biggest economic players are at odds? Can their coming together independently of the great powers save global commerce for themselves and the world, or even encourage a return to more responsible behavior by the Chinese and US governments? Learn more about the Next STEP Conference here: https://www.piie.com/events/next-step-global-conference-2023")
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ASEAN aims to realise the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2025, which entails establishing a single market and integrated production base. The AEC Blueprint provides numerous initiatives and agreements that must be implemented to attain this objective. ASEAN also has a Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity with a deadline of 2025, which complements the AEC. There are also regional FTAs like RCEP that help ASEAN build closer trade linkages with its major trading partners. However, ASEAN has faced significant economic challenges over the last few years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Given this context, is it still possible to achieve the AEC by 2025? What can be accomplished with only two years remaining?
In our 6th Counterpoint Southeast Asia public webinar, we ask: Is Time Running Out to Realise the ASEAN Economic Community by 2025? and invite three Southeast Asian analysts to provide their unique perspectives.
Counterpoint Southeast Asia is a webinar and policy brief series that tackles strategic and complex questions facing Southeast Asia by presenting the perspectives of regional academics and policy experts. It is organised by the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
Speakers:
## Julia Tijaja, Former Director of ASEAN Integration Monitoring, ASEAN Secretariat (2015-2021)
## Jean Clarisse T. Carlos, Project Development Officer, Philippine Institute for Development Studies
## Aekapol Chongvilaivan, Senior Economist (Public Finance), Asian Development Bank
Chairperson:
Denis Hew, Senior Research Fellow, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
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