Asia in Review (AiR)
Online panel discussion on “Constitutionalism in Crisis? The Path ahead for Southeast Asia”

The poster of the event

HSF

The online discussion “Constitutionalism in Crisis? The Path ahead for Southeast Asia” was conducted through Facebook livestream of the Hanns Seidel Foundation Thailand/Laos and the Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance on Wednesday 16^th December, 2020, 2.00 – 4.15 p.m. (Bangkok time).

In this event, the discussion mainly focused on the current states and the prospects of constitutionalism in Southeast Asia. It also explored impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and external factors which had a significant influence on the current Southeast Asian states; for example, great power rivalry in Asia and China’s growing global efforts to win support for its authoritarian model of ‘output’-oriented governance and legitimacy. The participants were enthusiastically welcomed to join the discussion in order to exchange knowledge and perspectives as well as investigate diverse possibilities of the future of the Southeast Asian countries.

The lecturers of the discussion were professors from various universities around the world, including Prof. Dr. Maria Ela L. Atienza from the Department of Political Science, the University of the Philippines (UP), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Melissa Crouch from Law School, the University of New South Wales, Sydney (UNSW Sydney), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thitinan Pongsudhirak from the Institute of Security and International Studies, the Faculty of Political Science Chulalongkorn University (CU), Asst. Prof. Dr. Dian A.H. Shah from the Faculty of Law, the National University of Singapore (NUS), and Ms. Bivitri Susanti from Indonesia Jentera School of Law. The moderator was Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bjorn Dressel from Crawford School of Public Policy, the College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University (ANU).