Upcoming Events
Date: Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Time: 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 25977
Synopsis: Asia and Singapore face daunting energy challenges. As a consequence of a rapid increase
in energy consumption, the region faces manifold challenges, including rising fuel prices associated with coal, natural gas, and oil, further degradation of the natural environment, and increased dependence on foreign supplies of energy-related fuels. Within this complicated environment, is Singapore ready for renewable energy? Can it play a leading role in promoting clean energy on the global stage? If so, how can innovative policy mechanisms overcome the impediments to renewable energy?
Come join us for an interactive two hour forum with some of the leading minds in Singapore to discuss these questions (and many more).
Speaker: Mr. Yee-Kuang Heng (Lecturer in International Relations & Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, U.K.)
Date: Thursday, 21 August 2008
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m
Venue: Seminar Room 3-5, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis:Critics of American unilateralism and its predominant focus on ‘hard’ military force tend to overlook multilateral practices that have emerged to combat global terrorism. These have unfortunately gone largely unnoticed, quietly slipping under the radar screen of both public opinion and academic scrutiny. President Bush’s address to the Joint Session of Congress on 20 September 2001 made clear that his war on terror would include dramatic ‘hard’ military strikes which have inevitably garnered the lion’s share of attention, but other initiatives would be less publicised, ‘secret even in success’. This paper seeks to address this imbalance by examining some less noticed cooperative ‘soft’ initiatives against global terror, and reflecting on the implications for International Relations theory, in particular risk and security studies.
