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Democracy and its Discontents in South and Southeast Asia

Organizers: NYU Wagner Office of International Programs, NYU Democracy Project, GSAS International Relations Program, and NYSEAN

Description:

Session 1: The Impact of Polarization and Majoritarianism on Democracy: India, Myanmar, and Indonesia

Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Speakers:

Kapil Komireddi, author of Malevolent Republic: A Short History of New India

David Thang Moe, Henry H. Rice Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University

Nava Nuraniyah, Australian National University PhD student and former analyst, Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), Indonesia

Presider: Sidney Jones, Adjunct Associate Professor at the International Relations Program, New York University, and senior advisor to IPAC

Session 2: Democratic Decline in Southeast Asia: What are the Drivers and What Can be Done?

Time: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Speakers:

Nava Nuraniyah, Australian National University PhD student and former analyst, Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), Indonesia

Sheila Coronel, Toni Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism; Director, Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University

Meredith Weiss, Professor of Political Science in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York

Presider: Margaret Scott, Adjunct Associate Professor at the International Relations Program, New York University, and co-founder of NYSEAN

Session 3: The Role of the Military and Insurgencies on Democratic Regression in Southeast Asia

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Speaker:

Sidney Jones, Adjunct Associate Professor at the International Relations Program, New York University

Presider: John Gershman, Clinical Professor of Public Service at the Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, and co-founder of NYSEAN

Session 4: What can be done? What is the Role of External Powers in Addressing Democratic Backsliding?

Time: 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Speakers:

Evan Laksmana, Senior Research Fellow with the Centre on Asia and Globalization at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School

Yun Sun, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program Stimson Center

Presider: Ann Marie Murphy, Professor at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, and co-founder of NYSEAN

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