Expert seminar: The Asian Development Bank - what’s in it for Europe?
On Thursday November 21 the Clingendael Institute will organize a seminar that addresses the economic and geo-strategic interests of the Netherlands and Europe in the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The aim is to improve our understanding of the following issues:
- the activities and interests of the Netherlands and Europe in the ADB;
- the trends within the ADB and the likely future trends over the next 10-20 years;
- the economic and geo-political importance of the ADB in the context of shifting regional and global power balances to which European countries are struggling to adapt.
The activities of and balance of power within the Asian Development Bank make it an important case to consider future Dutch diplomacy in a world wherein Asian countries are more influential.
'Gateway' to East Asia
Founded in 1966 and famous for its Asian characteristics and Japanese face, the ADB is the only East Asian institution of which more than a few individual European countries – including the Netherlands – enjoy full membership.
The ADB thereby plays a role as ‘gateway’ to the fast-growing region of East Asia, while at the same time providing a glimpse of the future in which a non-Western diplomatic style will be more influential in both normative and practical terms.
Seminar programme
Maaike Okano-Heijmans and Duncan Waardenburg will present the draft of their co-authored Clingendael Report ‘The Asian Development Bank: What’s in it for Europe?’, which will be published in December 2013.
Location: Huys Clingendael, Clingendael 7, 2597 VH in The Hague.
Please register by 18 November at [email protected].
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