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In the following, Professor John Chuan Tiong Lim gave a vivid presentation of "Crisis
Overcome? Ma Ying-jeou's Strategy on the Cross-strait Relations." He pointed out
that the Taiwan Strait Crisis has three meanings including temporary crisis, potential
crisis and identification crisis. Moreover, he also claimed that the basic strategy of
Ma Ying-jeou on the cross-strait relations is facing reality by first promote economy
exchange following political interaction.
After that, Professor Niu Ke from Department of History of Peking University made
comments on the former four scholars' speeches. Following an interaction session
with students and professors in the room, the first part of the panel ended at around 4
p.m.
After the coffee break, chair Andreas Etges from Columbia University started the
second part of the panel. Anders Stephanson first gave a speech with the topic of
"The Obama Non-doctrine: A Pragmatic Break with U.S. Exceptionalism." He
claimed that Obama's policy does not follow the doctrine of former presidents with a
large number of examples.
Two European scholars then made their presentations focusing on the panel's theme
with their own countries' context. First, Italian Scholar Enrico Fardella from University
of Florence gave a presentation about The Crisis of Democracy within the context of
Italy from 1948 to 2009. Then, Iolanda Tighiliu from Romania gave a presentation of
"Central Europe in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Comparative Study, the
Case of Romania," in which she briefly traced the historical and social changes in
Romania in the second half of the 19th century. Besides, she also talked about the
changes for Romania brought by joining EU recently.
Next, Professor Zan Tao from Department of History at Peking University gave a
speech with the topic "Crises of Democracy and Military Coups in Turkey,
1960-2008." In his presentation, he stated that the military strength in the 1960s had
made some contribution for the modernization of Turkey, which is often neglected by
scholars.
Eventually, Sunil Khilnani brought about a few questions for the four scholars and
made comments on the second part of the session. In spite of the time limit, all the
scholars gave solid answers to the questions. At around 6 o'clock, the whole panel
session concluded in a joyful atmosphere.
Reported By: An Jiang
Edited By : Cai Ying, Seren
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