Understanding the International Relations in the Indo-Pacific
Join Michal Kolmaš, Qiao-Franco Guangyu, Aleš Karmazin as they examine the Indo-Pacific as a regional framework and its relevance for EU engagement.
While the conception of the Indo-Pacific has proliferated over the last decade, becoming a ‘buzzword’ in international security debates, it remains unclear whether it can function as a blueprint for regional conceptualisation. Loose institutional grounding, alongside differences in political cultures, geographical belonging, economic integration, and security preferences, raises questions about its capacity to serve as a unifying regional framework.
This presentation aims to:
1) discuss the viability of the Indo-Pacific as a new means of regional consolidation in Asia, and
2) identify its relevance for the EU's priorities in the region.
In doing so, it also introduces a new textbook bearing the same title as the talk, which surveys the relevance of Indo-Pacific as a sustainable unifying narrative for Asia.
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Mia Saugman
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Giulio Pugliese
European University Institute and King’s College London
Speaker
Michal Kolmaš
Metropolitan University Prague
Qiao-Franco Guangyu
Radboud University
Aleš Karmazin
Metropolitan University Prague