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08:45 - Welcome

Opening Remarks by Dominique David, Executive Vice President, Ifri

Keynote Address by Christian Lechervy, Advisor for Strategic Affairs and the Asia-Pacific to the President of the French Republic

MORNING SESSION - ASSESSING RISING INSTABILITY IN EAST ASIA

09:15 - Mapping the shifting balance of power and security architecture in the region

Barry Buzan, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, London School of Economics

Fu-Kuo Liu, Executive Director, Center for Security Studies, National Chengchi University

Saadia M. Pekkanen, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

10:30 - Flashpoints and the risk of conflict

Ian Storey, Senior Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore

Valérie Niquet, Senior Research Fellow, Head, Asian Studies Department, Foundation for Strategic Research, Paris

Choi Kang, Vice President, Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Seoul

AFTERNOON SESSION: MANAGING RISK AND PROMOTING STABILITY IN EAST ASIA

14:00 - Regional peace initiatives and codes of conduct

Yoshihide Soeya, Director, Institute of East Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science, School of Law, Keio University, Tokyo

Jusuf Wanandi, co-founder of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Indonesia) and co-chair of the Council of Security and Cooperation in Asia-Pacific, Indonesia

Mien-sheng Hsu, President, Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs, Taipei

Richard Cronin, Director, Southeast Asia Program, Stimson Center, Washington D.C.

16:00 - Europe's role in promoting stability in East Asia

Viorel Isticioaia-Budura, Managing Director for Asia and the Pacific, European External Action Service (EEAS)

James Hoare, Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS, University of London

Daniel Keohane, Senior Researcher, Head of Strategic Affairs, FRIDE

17:45 - Concluding remarks

Thierry de Montbrial, Founder and President, Ifri

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