Session

Regionalism after Liberalism: Challenges and Future in Asia

Since the launching of the new President in the US, the global condition after 2017 is expected to be more challenging from the viewpoint of liberalism and regionalism. On this premise, the panel asks two questions: Firstly, populism, nationalism, and skepticism are threatening liberalism. Is this phenomenon a sign of the limits of liberalism?; secondly, what is the way of regionalism in Asia under the crisis of liberalism? Over the past time, regionalism and liberalism have accumulated their theories in academia and practices, and the EU and ASEAN have constructed successful stories in the context of those. Beyond the crisis, we would like to explore, how regionalism will respond to the challenges in a new context, and what regionalism in Asia will look like.