Ambassador
Kishore Mahbubani is Permanent Representative of Singapore to the
United Nations. In his diplomatic career, he has served in Cambodia,
Kuala Lampur, Washington, D.C. and New York. He is serving his
second term as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United Nations.
Ambassador Mahbubani was President of the Security Council in January
2001 and May 2002 when Singapore was serving on the UN Security
Council. He was Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry from
1993 to 1998. He also serves in various advisory capacities to
organizations such as the International Peace Academy, New York,
the Institute of International Education, New York, and the Global
Strategy Group. Ambassador Mahbubani received a First Class honors
degree in philosophy from the University of Singapore, and a Masters
degree in philosophy and an honorary doctorate from Dalhousie University,
Canada. He has published Can Asians Think (2002), several articles
in leading journals and op-ed articles in newspapers and magazines.
Dr. Kurt Campbell is Senior Vice-President and Director
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Before
joining CSIS, he worked at the Department of Defense as deputy assistant
director of defense, at the White House as deputy special counselor
to the president for NAFTA and as a member of the National Security
Council staff. Dr. Campbell has also been an associate professor
of public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
In addition, he was a fellow at the International Institute for Strategic
Studies in London and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He received a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego,
a Ph.D. in international relations from Oxford University and a certificate
in music and political philosophy from the University of Erevan in
Soviet Armenia. Dr. Campbell's publications include The Power
of Balance: 100 Strategic Insights into the Pacific Century (2003) and
To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign against Terrorism
(principal author, 2001).
Professor
G. John Ikenberry is the Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics
and Global Justice at Georgetown University. He also has been a
Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.
He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Professor Ikenberry
is the author of numerous publications, including, State Power
and World Markets: The International Political Economy (2002),
After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding
of Order after Major Wars (2000), and Reasons of State:
Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (1988).
In his famous essay, “The
Clash of Civilizations?,” Samuel Huntington says that “the
West in effect is using international institutions, military
power and economic resources to run the world in ways that
will maintain Western predominance, protect Western interests
and promote Western political and economic values.” Ambassador
Kishore Mahbubani will discuss if these global arrangements
can be sustained when Asia emerges. If change is inevitable,
how will the world change to accommodate the rising weight
of Asia?
