International Conference on

After the Strongmen: Democracy or

Alternative Political System in Asia

Program

July 3-4, 2008

Conference Room

The 3rd conference room, Institute of Ethnology Building

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Organized by

Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies Asian Studies Centre, St Antony’s College

RCHSS, Academia Sinica University of Oxford

Taiwan UK

July 3, 2008 (Thursday) Venue: Academia Sinica, Taiwan
9:00am Registration
9:20am / Opening Remarks
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
Steve Tsang
9:30am / Session 1: Why and When Authoritarian Regimes Democratize and How Established Democracies Can Help?
Chairperson: Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
Presenter: Laurence Whitehead
10:00am / Session 2: Taiwan’s Democratization after the Strongmen: Leadership Matters
Chairperson: Ming-Tong Chen (Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Presenter: Chih-Cheng Lo
11:00am Tea Break
11:20am / Session 3: China after Deng Xiaoping
Chairperson: Chih-Cheng Lo
Presenter: Steve Tsang
12:20pm Lunch
1:30pm / Session 4: South Korea after Roh Tae-woo: Progress of Democratization and Residue of Authoritarianism
Chairperson: Steve Tsang
Presenter: Jong-Yil Ra
2:30pm / Session 5: Indonesia after Suharto
Chairperson: Francis Kok-Wah Loh
Presenter: Peter Carey (Read by Robert Barnes)
3:30pm Tea Break
3:50pm / Session 6: Thailand after Thaksin Shinawatra
Chairperson: Samuel C. Y. Ku
Presenter: Hugh Pei-Hsiu Chen
4:50pm / Session 7: Unchanged after Changes: The Philippines after Marcos
Chairperson: Robert Barnes (Professor of Social Anthropology, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK)
Presenter: Samuel C. Y. Ku
July 4, 2008 (Friday) Venue: Academia Sinica, Taiwan
9:30am / Session 8: Malaysia after Mahathir: Late Democratization amidst Development, the Strong Developmental State and Developmentalism
Chairperson: Robert Barnes
Presenter: Francis Kok-Wah Loh
10:30am / Tea Break
10:50am / Session 9: What We Have Learned and Plan for Publication
Chairpersons: Steve Tsang
Presenters: Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
Laurence Whitehead
12:00am / Lunch

List of Authors

Carey, Peter / Fellow and Tutor in History, Trinity College
University of Oxford, UK
Chen, Hugh Pei-Hsiu / Associate Professor, Graduate School of Southeast Asian Studies
National chi Nan University, Taiwan
Hsiao, Hsin-Huang Michael / Executive Director, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Ku, Samuel C. Y. / Professor, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies for Social Sciences
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Lo, Chih-Cheng / Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Political Science
Soochow University, Taiwan
Loh, Francis Kok-Wah / Professor, School of Social Sciences
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Ra, Jong-Yil / President
Woosuk University, South Korea
Tsang, Steve / Louis Cha Fellow and University Reader in Politics
St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK
Whitehead, Laurence / Official Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College
University of Oxford , UK