EU-Asia Connectivity: Chaos, Competition or Cooperation? Ms. Shada Islam

November 18th, 2021

Ms. Shada Islam, Managing Director at New Horizons Project, Geopolitical Strategy Advisor and Analysist, delivered a lecture on “EU-Asia Connectivity: Chaos, Competition or Cooperation?.”

This lecture is part of the Jean Monnet Lecture Series on EU-Asia Connectivity. A research activity conducted under the Jean Monnet Chair “Connecting Europe and Asia: People, Power and Policies” (CEAPPP) hosted by Prof. Dr. Bersick, Head of Department, International Political Economy of East Asia, Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

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0:00 – 4:48 Introduction
4:49 – 10:32 ASEM: Where Eurasia meets the Indo-Pacific
10:33 – 13:04 The Impact of US-China tensions on EU and Asia
13:05 – 16:09 EU: Between a Rock and a hard Place
16:10 – 18:45 Indo-Pacific: Geopolitical Tensions & Alliances
18:46 – 21:46 EU and the Indo-Pacific
21:47 – 26:28 Don’t make a bad Situation worse
26:29 – 28:57 Connectivity: a new Great Game
28:58 – 32:02 A role for ASEM
32:03 – 42:39 Realpolitik as an Answer to Multilateralization
42:40 – 45:30 EU’s Balance between Interests and Values
45:31 – 49:50 Improvement and Challenges of the EU’s normative Leadership concept
49:51 – 53:30 The EU’s Strategy for smaller countries
53:31 – 55:50 The Role of non-state Actors
55:51 – 59:11 Importance of Indo-Pacific Agreements
59:12 – 1:02:05 The Rise of China and EU-India Relations
1:02:06 – 1:08:44 Europe’s Borders – Fortress Europe?

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This lecture is part of the Jean Monnet Lecture Series on EU-Asia Connectivity. A research activity conducted under the Jean Monnet Chair “Connecting Europe and Asia: People, Power and Policies” (CEAPPP) hosted by Prof. Dr. Bersick, Head of Department, International Political Economy of East Asia, Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

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This research activity is conducted with the European Commission support under the programme Erasmus+ Programme, Jean Monnet Actions. “The European Commission support for the production of this activity does not constitute endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.”

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