Maritime Challenges in the Asia Pacific: Moving Towards Political,Environmental, and Functional Cooperation”: The Department of International Political Economy of East Asia co-organizes international conference on maritime security in East Asia, in Manila, the Philippines

18.11.2016

 Over 200 Philippine and foreign representatives from theacademia, diplomacy, business, politics and media participated in the conference on the 18th November. In three panels, the current developments in the South China Sea were analyzed and discussed from legal, ecological, geo-political as well as geo-economic perspectives (Link). Prof. Bersick held a presentation on “Practical Cooperation in Disputed Waters” (PPT.). Since 2015, the annual conference series, deals with questions regarding the interplay ofeconomics and security issues in maritime East Asia. The conference series addresses questions of national and regional governance. This year´s conference was hosted in cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the AIM Rizalino S. Navarro Policy Center for Competitivenessaswell as the Foreign Service Institute of the Philippines.
Additional information as well as photos of the conference can be accessed here.