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JMCoE, 2020

S.D. Muni-former special envoy of the Government of India and emeritus professor, JNU, and
YM Raja Dato’ Nushirwan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia’s Ambassador to China.

Comparative Regionalism Workshop 2019
On April 24 and 25, 2019, the institute organized a two-day workshop on Comparative
Regionalism in collaboration with the Centre for ASEAN Regionalism University of Malaya.
The session was conducted by Dr. Paul Gillespie, Senior Research Fellow at University College
Dublin and co-facilitated by Dr. Rahul Mishra, AEI. The workshop’s objective was to expose
participants to the field of research on comparative regionalism as well as introduce participants
to the use of comparative regionalism and the theory for comparative research. For this two
day workshop, the organizers hoped to create an environment where all the students,
researchers and participants are able to collaborate for a mock research design. At the end of
the workshop there were group presentations of the proposed or mock research project.

Seminar on Western and non-Western International Relations

A range of Kuala Lumpur-based specialists on international relations-security and foreign
policy experts, historians, sociologists, and public policy specialists - gathered at the Asia-
Europe Institute on 11 July, 2019 to discuss recent literature on non-Western approaches to
international relations. The event was a part of the year two of JMCoE activities. The seminar
sought to identify key features of the Western approach. It was noted first that Western thinking
has changed over the centuries, and shares characteristics with different forms of non-Western
international relations thought.

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