Europe's Past, Asia's Future?
Historical Lessons for Contemporary Maritime Governance in Asia" on 11-12 November 2016. The workshop is organised
Workshop organised by CRP and École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, as part of CRP’s the Maritime Governance programme
The workshop brings together UK, American and European historians and political scientists of maritime powers, with the agenda to establish an original and viable comparative framework for understanding the development of
maritime order and naval powers in Asia through the lens of the European experience. It is an opportunity to grapple with more fundamental issues of nationhood, sovereignty, transnational processes, realist and cultural strategic
culture, and self-regulation of non-state actors in the maritime space. The workshop will be taken forward in a followup conference in Berkeley in 2017 and a final conference in Cambridge in 2018, with the finished papers prepared for an edited volume on comparative perspectives on Asian maritime powers.
This workshop will consist of four panels covering the following topics:
• Maritime ambitions of rising powers
• Maritime order in East Asia in historical comparative context
• The navy as a flexible force
• Sustaining naval hegemony
Workshop Programme