Workshop on “The Next Phase of Democracy And Political Security”

Time: 2 April 2013

Hosts: IDAS & IIR, National Chengchi University

Agenda

10:00-10:10 Opening remarks
Professor Yih-chyi Chuang, Dean, College of Social Science, NCCU
Professor David Holms, Director, IDAS, NCCU
Professor Fu-Kuo Liu, Research Fellow/Professor, IIR

10:10-12:10 Session One
European Democracy Progress
Chair: Professor Evan Berman, IDAS, NCCU
Presenter: Professor Edgard Van de Velde, Constitutional, Comparative and European Law & co-author of “The Road to Democracy”
“Democracy New Progress: the European perspective,”
Discussant: Dr. Wei-Feng Huang, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

12:10-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:30 Session Two
Asian Democracy New Efforts
Chair: Professor Fu-Kuo Liu, Research Fellow/Professor, IIR
Presenters: Dr. Ching-hsin Yu, Research Fellow, Election Study Center, NCCU
“Democracy in Taiwan”
Professor Paul Lim, Head, Centre for European Studies, Institute for Occidental Studies (IKON), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
“Democracy in Malaysia”,
Discussant: Professor Shaocheng Tang, Chairman, Research Division of American and European Studies, IIR

15:30-15:50 Break
15:50-17:20 Session Three
Europe and Asia Perspectives: Political Security
Chair: Professor Tai-Ling Chang, Department of European Languages and Cultures, NCCU
Presenters: Levente SZEKELY, Representative, Hungarian Trade Office, Taipei.
Discussant: Professor Paul Lim, Head, Centre for European Studies, Institute for Occidental Studies (IKON), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Marc Cheng, Executive Director, European Union Centre in Taiwan
17:20-17:30 Closing remarks