Conferencia: ‘¿Can International Institutions Constrain New Economic Statecraft?’

Invitan BeLatin y la Escuela de Relaciones Internacionales de la Facultad de Finanzas Gobierno y Relaciones Internacionales.

New economic statecraft

Economic statecraft is a multifaceted approach that combines economic policies, financial instruments, and strategic thinking to advance a nation’s interests on the global stage. Refers to the strategic use of economic tools by states to achieve their security interests and influence international affairs.

The conference will address valuable insights for policymakers, researchers, and business professionals interested in wealth creation, power projection, or their intersection with the new economic statecraft.

Agenda

9 am a 9 15

Apertura a cargo de Raul Howe, director ejecutivo de BeLatin

• 9:15 am a 10:15 am: ¿Can International Institutions Constrain New Economic Statecraft?.

Vinod K. Aggarwal

Director, Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC)

Vinod (Vinnie) Aggarwal is Distinguished Professor and holds the Alann P. Bedford Endowed Chair, Department of Political Science; Affiliated Professor, Haas School of Business; Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC); and Fellow in the Public Law and Policy Center, Berkeley Law School, all at UC Berkeley. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Journal of Business and Politics. Dr. Aggarwal is a lifetime Council on Foreign Relations member and has held fellowships from the Brookings Institution, Rockefeller Foundation, East-West Center, Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Japan Foundation. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, INSEAD, Yonsei University, NTU, Chung-Ang University, and the University of Hawaii, where he is an Affiliate Faculty member in Asian Studies. He has won the Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award for both MBA and Ph.D. teaching at the Haas School of Business. Prof. Aggarwal has published over 22 books and 160 articles and book chapters. His most recent book is Great Power Competition and Middle Power Strategies (2023) and his book the Oxford Handbook on Geoeconomics and Economic Statecraft is forthcoming.  He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

• 10:15 am a 10:45 am: Coffe Break
• 10:45 am a 11:00 am: New economic statecraft: Asian perspectives and alternatives.

Lina Luna

Director of the School of International Relations at FIGRI, Externado de Colombia University

Sinologist,Internationalist. Doctoral candidate in Law at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. MA in International Politics from the Languages and Culture University in Beijing, China. Professional in Government and International Relations from Externado de Colombia University. Research and professional focus on contemporary China, Asian thought, Asia’s geopolitics, China-Latin America relations, emerging economies, South-South cooperation, and transformations in the international system. Member of ALADAA, REDINTERCOL, ISA, LASA, Latin America and the Caribbean – China Network (Red América Latina y el Caribe – China), Redcaem.

• 11:00 am a 11:15 am: Is there a statecraft in The Pacific Alliance?

Luis Antonio Orozco

Full professor at School of Management Universidad Externado de Colombia.

Business administrator from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and Ph.D. in administration from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. He is associate editor of the Journal of Management History of Emerald Publishing (Q1 in Scopus), member of the Scientific Committee and reviewer at the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics congresses, editor and evaluator of Palgrave Macmillan – Springer, founding member of the Governance and Management of Science, Technology and Innovation Network – GCTI Network, member of BeLatin University of California Berkeley, board member of Academy of Innovation entrepreneurship and knowledge network – Aciek and senior researcher recognized by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of

Colombia.

• 11:15 am a 12:00 m:
• Panel session
• Gonzalo Ordóñez, Dean the school of Finance Government and International Relations