The Quad comprises the United States, Australia, India, and Japan in an informal partnership that addresses security, economic, and public goods issues in the Indo-Pacific. It is seen by some as a containment strategy against China with the potential to displace the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s role in regional security, and by others as a platform for practical cooperation on issues including vaccine production, climate change, and emerging technologies that will enhance growth across the region. Join us as leading global experts discuss what the Quad means for Asia.
The Geopolitics series is supported by the Tan Chin Tuan Chinese Culture & Civilisation Programme.
About the speakers
Dr Tanvi Madan | Director of The India Project, Brookings Institution; Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy
Dr Tanvi Madan is the Director of The India Project at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and a Senior Fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy programme. Dr Madan’s work explores India’s role in the world and its foreign policy, focusing in particular on India’s relations with China and the United States (US). She also researches the United States’ and India’s approaches in the Indo-Pacific, as well as the development of interest-based coalitions, especially the Australia-India-Japan-US Quad.
Professor Rory Medcalf | Head of National Security College, The Australian National University
Professor Rory Medcalf has been Head of the National Security College (NSC) at The Australian National University since January 2015. He has led the expansion of the College into policy engagement and futures analysis, as well as education, executive development and research, repositioning the College as ‘more than a think tank’. Prof Medcalf has been prominent in developing Australia’s relations with India. He has been recognised as a thought leader internationally for his work on the Indo-Pacific concept of the Asian strategic environment, as articulated in his 2020 book Contest for the Indo-Pacific (released internationally as Indo-Pacific Empire).
Assistant Professor Selina Ho | Assistant Professor of International Affairs, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Selina Ho is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. She specializes in Chinese politics and foreign policy, with a focus on infrastructure politics and water disputes. Her work stands at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations. Selina received her Ph.D. from The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, where she also received a Master in International Public Policy (Honours).
About the moderator
Assistant Professor Rohan Mukherjee | Assistant Professor of Social Sciences (Political Science), Yale-NUS College
Assistant Professor Rohan Mukherjee has been teaching Political Science at Yale-NUS College since 2016. He received his PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He holds an MPA in International Development from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford. He has also been a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Security Studies Programme and a non-resident Visiting Fellow at the United Nations University in Tokyo.
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