2nd Taipei Seminar on:
"Asia-Pacific Cooperative Security in the 21st Century"
Taipei, Taiwan
3-8, April 2003
Director of the School: Carlo Schaerf
Director of the Seminar: Shu Yuan Hsieh
| Taipei 2003 | Programme | List of Participants |
PROGRAMME
Thursday April 3, 2003
Foreign Participants Arrival & Registration
Evening Welcome Party
Friday April 4, 2003
08:20 - 08:50 Registration 09:00 - 09:10 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr. Shu Yuan Hsieh (Taiwan) and Dr. Carlo Schaerf, Director, ISODARCO (Italy)
09:10 - 09:20 Opening Address
His Excellency Chen Shui-bian, President (Taiwan)
| 09:20 - 10:40 |
Session 01 - Theoretical Analysis of Missile Defense & Its Impact on Nuclear Deterrence in the post-Cold War Era
Speaker: Dr. Masako Ikegami, Director, Center for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm University (Sweden) Chairperson: Dr. T. S. Mark Chen, Legislator, Legislative Yuan (Taiwan) |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Tea & Coffee Break |
| 11:10 - 12:30 |
Session 02 - Deployment of the US National Missile Defense (NMD), a Rush to Failure?
Speaker: Dr. Gert Harigel, Senior Physicist (Honorary Member) European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN (Switzerland) Chairperson: Dr. Cheng-I Lin, Director, Institute of European & American Studies, Academia Sinica (Taiwan) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Luncheon - Hosted by the Ministry of National Defense
Keynote Speaker: Admiral Lyle G. Bien (ret.), Commander, CARRIER GROUP SEVEN, 1995-96, USA |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Session 03 - Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in the Taiwan Strait
Speaker: Dr. Shu-Yuan Hsieh, Visiting Scholar/Professor of International Law, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (Taiwan) Chairperson: Legislator Wen-Chung Lee, Legislative Yuan (Taiwan) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Tea & Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
Session 04 - Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Northeast Asia: Importance of Shared Perspectives for 'Cooperative Security'
Speaker: Dr. Takao Takahara, Professor of International Studies, Meijigakuin University, Japan Chairperson: Dr. Chong-Pin Lin, Adjunct Professor, Graduate Institute of Mainland China Studies, National Sun Yat-sen University |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner (Foreign Participants) - Hosted by Dr. Yin-Wen Tsai, Chairperson, Mainland Affairs Council |
| 09:00 - 10:30 |
Session 05 - North Korea Nuclear Crisis
Panelists: Dr. Young-Hong Kang, Former Prime Minister of South Korea Dr. Keun Park, Former Ambassador to the U.N. (South Korea) Major General(ret.)Jae-Myong Kim, President, the Military Operations Research Society of Korea Dr. Victor Gilinsky, Former Commissioner of Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USA) Chairperson: Madam Maysing H. Yang, Vice-Chairperson, Research & Planning Board, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Taiwan) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Tea & Coffee Break | 11:00 - 12:30 |
Session 06 - Two Directions on Nuclear Issues in Asia-Pacific Region
Speaker: Dr. Michiji Konuma, Pugwash Council; Dean, Faculty of Environmental & Information Studies, Musashi Institute of Technology (Japan) Chairperson: Kang Ning-Hsian, Secretary-General, the National Security Council (Taiwan) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Luncheon - Honor Speaker -Dr. Eugene Y. Chien, Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Session 07 - Collaboration among Sovereign States against Terrorism: Towards a Neo-Metterichian Era?
Speaker: Dr. David Carlton, Senior Lecturer in International Studies, University of Warwick (UK) Dr. Carolina Hernandez of Philippines will share the Counter-Terrorism Measures Adopted by ASEAN Chairperson: Vice Admiral Tun Hwa Ko(ret.) (Taiwan) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Tea & Coffee Break | 16:00 - 17:30 |
Session 08 - Threat Assessment and Protective Measures
Extending the ASEM IV conclusions on fighting international terrorism & other instruments to cyber-terrorism Speaker: Dr. Massimo Mauro, Council of the European Union-General Secretariat, Brussels (Not Available) East Asian Responses to the TMD: A Canadian Perspective Speaker: Dr. Robert d'A Henderson, Senior Strategic Researcher for International Security (Canada) Chairperson: Dr. Michael Y. Kau, Vice Minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Taiwan) |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner (Foreign Participants) - Hosted by Secretary General Chang Chun-Hsiung, the Democratic Progressive Party |
| 09:00 - 10:40 |
Session 09 - China Increases Military Input in the 21st Century
Speaker: Mr. Andrei Pinkov (Yihong Chang), Jane's Defense Weekly; Kanwa Information Center (Canada) Chairperson: Dr. Alex Chiang, Associate Professor, National Chengchi University |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Tea & Coffee Break | 11:10 - 12:30 |
Session 10 - Space Cop: A New Cold War?
Speaker: Mr. Mike Moore, Senior Editor, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,(USA) (Not Available) China's Nuclear Arsenal & Missile Defense with a Special Focus to India-China Relations Speaker: Mr. M. V. Rappai, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies (India) Chairperson: Dr. Fu-Kuo Liu, Chairperson, Research & Planning Board, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Taiwan) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Luncheon - Hosted by General Chen Cheng-Hsian, President, National Defense University | 14:00 - 15:20 |
Session 11 - New Paralysing and Incapacitating Technologies for Sub-State Conflict Control
Speaker: Dr. Steve Wright, Director, the Omega Foundation (UK) Chairperson: Dr. Chia-Cheng Lin, Chairman, Research, Development, & Evaluation Commission, the Executive Yuan (Taiwan) |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Tea & Coffee Break | 15:50 - 17:30 |
Session 12 - Conclusion with Proposals to Build Cooperative Security for Asia-Pacific Region
Panelists: Admiral Lyle G. Bien (ret.), Commander, Carrier Group Seven, 1995-96 (USA) Dr. Lee Ying-Yuan, Deputy Secretary General, the Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan) Dr. Young-Hoon Kang, Former Prime Minister of South Korea Prof. Michiji Konuma, Musashi Institute of Technology (Japan) Prof. Carlo Schaerf, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' (Italy) Dr. Jou-Fang Deng, M.D., President, Taiwan International Medical Alliance (Taiwan) Award of Certificates for those who have completed the Seminar! A special paper, Russo-Taiwanese Relations, has been prepared by Dr. Natalia N. Vladislavleva, the Diplomatic Academy, the Russian Foreign Ministry (Russia) |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner (Foreign Participants) |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Visit to Night Market by Foreign Participants - It's fun but not compulsory! |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Visit by Foreign Participants to Her Excellency Lu Hsiu-Lien, Vice President (Taiwan) | 11:00 -- | Local Tour-Palace Museum-History of Taiwan during the Dutch Rule | Afternoon | Free Spirit in Taiwan | Evening | Farewell Party
Hosted by Secretary-General Chiou I-Jen, the Office of the President Italian Opera and Taiwan Folk-Songs - Ms. Sofia Wang |
| Foreign Participants Departure See You Next Time |
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