Programme

24 February, 2020

NUS FASS, AS8-04-04 Seminar Room

* This programme is subject to change.

8.30am - 8.45am

8.45am - 9.00am

9.00am - 11.10am

9.00am - 9.10am

9.10am - 9.40am

9.40am - 10.10am

10.10am - 10.40am

10.40am - 11.10am

11.10am - 11.20am

11.20am - 12nn

12nn - 1.00pm

1.00pm – 2.40pm

1.00pm – 1.10pm

1.10pm – 1.40pm

1.40pm – 2.10pm

2.10pm – 2.20pm

2.20pm – 4.00pm

2.20pm – 2.30pm

2.30pm – 3.00pm

3.00pm – 3.30pm

3.30pm – 4.00pm

4.00pm – 4.10pm

4.10pm - 5.40pm

4.10pm – 4.20pm

4.20 pm – 4.50pm

4.50 pm – 5.10pm

5.10pm – 5.40pm

5.40pm - 5.50pm

5.50pm till late

Registration

Welcome Address

Panel 1: International Relations and Political Economy

Chair: Wang Shuqi
Discussant: TBC

Opening Remarks by Chair

Wang Shuqi (NTU). Pro-Japanese and Anti-Japanese: Comparative Studies on Taiwan and South Korea from the Perspective of National Identity Formation.

Kim Soyoung (NUS). Rhetorical Restraint: Legitimating Japan’s Legislation for Peace and Security.

Barbora Valockova (NTU). The Tables have Turned: A New Era of Development Cooperation.

Susan Kurdli (NTU). Globally Integrated Statism: How State-owned Enterprises are Driving Development through Outward Investment.

Break

Roundtable: Political Theory
Chair: Dr Matthew Lepori

Discussant: Isaac Neo

Quah Say Jye (NUS). Rawlsian Liberties and Climate Change: A Failure to Address the ‘Global Test’.

Lunch

Panel 2: Comparative Politics (1)
Chair: Dr Walid Jumblatt Abdullah
Discussant: Kim Soyoung

Opening Remarks by Chair

Isaac Neo (NTU). Deciding between Collaboration and Contestation: The State-Civil Society Nexus in Singapore.

Murni Marisa (NUS). Developmentalist Parties in a Digital Era: Explaining the Electoral Performance of the PAP and Saenuri Party.

Break

Panel 3: Public Administration and Public Policy
Chair: Assel Mussagulova

Discussant: Dr Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, Eldrich Dave Marquez

Opening Remarks by Chair

Assel Mussagulova (NTU). Bureaucratic Professionalism and Quality of Public Good Provision.

Mary Ann Q. Franco (NUS). Renewable Energy Adoption in Poor Rural Areas in the Philippines: Why Communities Matter.

Nihit Goyal (NUS). Policy Assessment using Multiple Streams: The Success (and Failure) of the Solar Energy Policy in Gujarat, India.

Break

Panel 4: Comparative Politics (2)
Chair: Susan Kurdli
Discussants: A/P Terence Lee

Opening Remarks by Chair

Stasha Wong (NUS). When and Why Global Performance Indicators Engage States' Reputations.

Thiyaghessan s/o Poongundranar (NUS). Good Enough: A Comparative Analysis of the Satisficing Ability of Dominant Party States (Azerbaijan and Singapore).

Eldrich Dave Marquez (NTU). Spaces for Dialogue: Understanding Peace Processes in Southern Philippines and Southern Thailand.

Closing Remarks

Dinner (for invited guests only)