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Emerging Powers and International System in Transition
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December 6-7, 2008, Shanghai
Venue: Taishan Hall, 4th Floor, Annex Building, Hengshan Picardie Hotel
No. 534, Hengshan Road, Shanghai, 200030, China, Tel:0086-21-64377050

Dec.6 Saturday
09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks by President. Jiemian Yang

09:15-10:30 Session I
How to assess the significance of emerging powers
and its implications to the international system in
general? How to perceive main characteristics of
structural changes of international system?

Chairperson: Dr. Qing Ye
09:15-09:30 Multilateralism and Role of Emerging Powers: Indian Perspectives
Prof. Swaran Singh
09:30-09:45Emerging Powers and Future International System
Dr. Chun Zhang
09:45-09:50Comment
Prof.Gancheng Zhao
09:50-09:55Comment
Prof. Xiyuan Jiang
09:55-10:30Free Discussion
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:00Session II

How do emerging powers identify themselves in the
system? How do they view relations vis-à-vis each other and with other established powers? How do they envision an emerging new order and their role within, especially after the financial tsunami?
Chairperson: Prof. Gancheng Zhao
10:45-11:00Emerging Powers, Short and Long Term Issues: A Brazilian View
Ambassador Clodoaldo Hugueney
11:00-11:15New Russian Policy towards East Asia
Prof. Vasily V. Mikheev
11:15-11:30Mexican Foreign Policy in the Transition to a Multipolar World
Prof. José Luis León-Manriquez
11:30-11:35Comment
Mr. Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal
11:35-11:40 Comment
Prof. Hongbo Zhu
11:40-12:15Free Discussion
12:15-13:30Buffet Lunch
Picardie Café, Ground Floor, Annex Building

14:00-15:30Session III
How do emerging powers view global governance? How do they deal with transnational issues such as energy security,environmental issues and international terrorism? What are their common interests as well as disputed agenda? What
adjustments in their perceptions and policies are required in order to achieve common goals?
Chairperson:Ambassador Clodoaldo Hugueney
14:00-14:15 Africa"s Role and Location in Shifting Global Power
Relations to 2025: Understanding a Continent under Stress
Prof. Harry Dugmore
14:15-14:30 Two Logics of Climate Change Games
Dr. Hongyuan Yu
14:30-14:35 Comment
Prof. Jiang Ye
14:35-14:40 Comment
Dr. Lei Xue
14:40-15:30 Free Discussion
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break

15:45-17:00 Session IV
How to evaluate the collaborative regimes between emerging powers and the established powers such as G8+5? Which areas are most and least promising? What directions and forms should these institutions take?
Chairperson: Prof. Jiang Ye
15:45-16:00 It"s Getting Very Crowded
Prof. Alexandroff
16:00-16:15 Emerging Powers and Managing Transformation
Prof. Werner Weidenfeld
16:15-16:20 Comment
Prof. Shuyong Guo
16:20-16:25 Comment
Dr. Haibing Niu
16:25-17:00 Free Discussion

Dec.7 Sunday
09:00-10:15 Session V
How can China’s diplomacy become more effective and relevant in collaboration with other emerging powers? How can China and other emerging powers engage each other more closely? What kinds of new frameworks are needed to better manage bilateral and global issues?
Chairperson: Prof. Dongxiao Chen
09:00-09:15China"s Proactive Diplomacy in Governmental
Organizations: Analysis and Prospect
Dr. Jorge E. Malena
09:15-09:30 The Evolving International System: Main Features and Implications to China’s Diplomacy
Dr. Qing Ye
09:30-09:35 Comment
Prof. Xintian Yu
09:35-10:15 Free Discussion
10:15-10:30Coffee Break
10:30:-11:15 Concluding Session
How to promote track-two dialogue between emergingpowers? What will be the priorities on future agenda? what will be our policy recommendations?
Chairperson: Prof. Dongxiao Chen
10:30-11:15 Free Discussion
11:15-11:30 Concluding Remarks
President Jiemian Yang
11:30 Buffet Lunch

Picardie Café, Ground Floor, Annex Building
List of Participants (Alphabetic Order)
Foreign Participants:
Prof. Alan S.Alexandroff
Research Director, Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation, Munk Centre for International Studies, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Canada

Prof. Harry Dugmore
MTN Chair of Media and Mobile Communications, Rhodes University, South Africa

H.E. Ambassador Clodoaldo Hugueney
Ambassador of Brazil to China, Brazil

Mr. Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal
President, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil

Prof.José Luis León-Manriquez
Professor, Department of Political Science, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico

Dr. Jorge E. Malena
Director, Contemporary China Studies, School of Oriental Studies, Universidad del Salvador, Argentina

Prof. Vasily V. Mikheev
Director, China & Japan Studies Center, Institute for World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Dr. Werner Weidenfeld
Director, Center for Applied Policy Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany

Dr. Swaran Singh
Associate Professor for Disarmament at School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Chinese Participants:
Prof. Dongxiao Chen
Vice President, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)

Prof. Shuyong Guo
Professor of International Relations and Assistant Dean , School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Prof. Xiyuan Jiang
Research Fellow, Department of International Organization and International Law, SIIS

Dr. Haibin Niu
Deputy Director, Center for Latin American Studies, SIIS

Prof. Qiang Shen
Director, Research Department, Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs

Dr. Cong Xu
Research Fellow, Department of International Organization and International Law, SIIS

Dr. Lei Xue
Research Fellow, Department of International Organization and International Law, SIIS

Prof. Jiemian Yang
President, SIIS

Prof. Jiang Ye
Director, Department of European Studies, SIIS

Dr. Qing Ye
Executive Director, Department of International Organization and International Law, SIIS

Dr. Yu Ye
Research Fellow, Department of World Economy, SIIS

Prof. Hongyuan Yu
Deputy Director, Department of International Organization and International Law, SIIS

Prof. Xintian Yu
Chairperson, Academic Committee, SIIS

Mr. Xiaogang Zha,
Research Fellow, Department of World Economy, SIIS

Dr. Chun Zhang
Research Fellow, Department of West Asian and African Studies, SIIS

Mr. Run Zhang
Director, Department of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China

Prof. Gancheng Zhao
Director, Department of South Asia Studies, SIIS

Prof. Hongbo Zhu
Director, Department of Latin American Studies, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University
Specially Invited Guests: (Countries in Alphabetic Order)
Consulate General of Argentina in Shanghai
Ambassador Miguel Alfredo Velloso, Former Consul General

Consulate General of India in Shanghai
Mr. Swapan Chattopadhyay, Consul

Consulate General of Mexico in Shanghai
Mr.Miguel Barrio, Consul General
Mr.Andres Pena, Deputy Consul General
Ms. Yuiko Yasuda, Spouse of Deputy Consul General
Mr. Amado Trejo Romero, Assistant to Consul General

Consulate General of Russia in Shanghai
Mr.Sergey Paltov, Deputy Consul General
Mr.Fomenko, Deputy Consul General
Mr.Ufimtcev, Consul
Mr.Grachniy, Vice Consul
Ms.Arutyunyan, Attache

Consulate General of South Africa in Shanghai
Mrs. Mandisa Khumalo, Spouse of Consul General