Overcoming Challenges to a Peaceful and Prosperous International Order: A Proactive Role for G7
November 2, 2023 | 1:00PM - 5:30PM
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In-person
This event took place in-person in the Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto
The international order confronts significant challenges, including intensifying geopolitical tensions in Asia and Europe, new forms of geoeconomic competition and weaponized interdependence, and globalized problems necessitating unprecedented societal transformations. In this symposium, a distinguished group of speakers offered their insights about global challenges and potential solutions in the domains of international security, economic relations, and societal transformation. The symposium considered the role that Japan, Canada, and the United States can play along with other G7 partners in confronting global challenges, building on the progress of the Hiroshima G7 meeting in May 2023.
The event was jointly hosted by the Centre for the Study of Global Japan, G7 Research Group, and Bill Graham Centre at the University of Toronto with generous support from the Consulate-General of Japan in Toronto.
Program:
1:00-1:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Phillip Lipscy, Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan
Takuya Sasayama, Consul-General of Japan in Toronto
1:15-2:30 Session 1: Security
Nobumasa Akiyama, Professor, School of International and Public Policy and the Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University
Ayumi Teraoka, Postdoctoral research scholar, Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Daisaku Higashi, Professor, Center for Global Education and Discovery, Sophia University
Dani Nedal, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
2:30 – 2:45 – Break with Refreshments
2:45-4:00 Session 2: Economy
Glen S. Fukushima, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Deanna Horton, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Louis Pauly, J. Stefan Distinguished Professor of Political Economy, University of Toronto
John Kirton, Director of the G7 Research Group, University of Toronto
4:00 – 4:15 – Break with Refreshments
4:15-5:30 Session 3: Societal Transformation
Jim Raymo, Professor of Sociology and the Henry Wendt III Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University
Carin Holroyd, Professor Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan
James Tiessen, Professor, Global Management Studies and Director, Master of Health Administration (Community Care), Toronto Metropolitan University
John Meehan, Director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, University of Toronto