Democracy in Asia: Addressing Challenges to Democratic Governance
The Democracy in Asia project was launched by the Brookings Foreign Policy program in 2020 to explore the state of democracy in the Indo-Pacific region and examine the role and influence of democracy in the Asian context. The first phase of the project (2020-2021) resulted in a collection of policy briefs examining the health of democratic governance in Asia and identified several common challenges impacting the successes and health of democracy. In the second phase of the project (2021-2022), Brookings scholars and outside experts focused on four of these challenges: corruption, disinformation, inequality, and public health. Syaru Shirley Lin of the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI) led the CAPRI research team to organize the public health working group. The research and analysis of this project have been compiled into a single volume, Democracy in Asia, that highlights both the significant progress and remaining work to be done in shoring up democratic performance in Asia. On December 14, the Brookings Foreign Policy program hosted an event to discuss the findings of this compiled volume.
Read the chapter “Democracy and public health in Asia” by CAPRI summarizing the findings of the public health working group in the volume at Brookings Institution website
Program
Introduction
Suzanne Maloney, Vice President and Director - Foreign Policy, Brookings
Panel 1: Overview of key challenges
Panelists:
Thomas Pepinsky, Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings
Nuurrianti Jalli, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies - Northern State University
Andrew Yeo, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies, Brookings
Syaru Shirley Lin, Nonresident Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings; Chair – Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI)
Moderator:
Ryan Hass, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center, The Michael H. Armacost Chair, Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies, Brookings; Nonresident Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School
Panel 2: Challenges and recommendations
Panelist:
Byunghwan Son, Associate Professor - George Mason University
Meredith Weiss, Associate Professor and Director of International Programs - Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, Brookings
June Park, International Strategy Forum – Asia Fellow – Schmidt Futures
Moderator:
Patricia M. Kim, David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings
When
Wednesday, Dec 14, 2022
10:00 - 11:30 AM EST
Where
Falk Auditorium, Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC, 20036
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