Professor Kai He
Professor Kai He from Griffith University would like to discuss the prospect of regionalism in the light of the new wave of multilateralism—what he calls “multilateralism 2.0”. After the 2008 GFC (Global Financial Crisis), major powers, instead of ASEAN, have actively engaged in multilateral institutions, such as TPP (the US under Obama), AIIB (China), and CPTPP (Japan). Professor He will examine how different role conceptions of states during the international order transition have shaped the various institutional balancing strategies in the era of multilateralism 2.0 in the Asia Pacific.
Biography:
Kai He is Professor of International Relations at Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia. He is a visiting Chair Professor of International Relations at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, China (2018-2020). He is currently an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (2017-2020). He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (2009-2010). He is the author of Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific: Economic Interdependence and China’s Rise (Routledge, 2009), Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific: Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior (co-authored with Huiyun Feng, Routledge, 2013), and China’s Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2016).