Financial Statecraft and Ascendant Powers: Latin America and Asia after the 2008-10 Global Financial Crisis

A conference on Financial Statecraft and Ascendant Powers of Latin America and Asia will be held at USC.

8:00am– 8:30am: Continental Breakfast

8:30am – 8:40am: Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:40am – 10:00am: I. Theorizing financial statecraft
Chair: Carol Wise (USC)
Discussant: Benjamin J. Cohen, Leslie Elliott Armijo, Saori N. Katada, Laurissa Muehlich,Kurt von Mettenheim.

10:00am – 10:15am: Coffee Break

10:15am – 12:00pm: II. Latin American Perspectives
Chair: David Kang (USC)
Discussant: Shaun Breslin, Ignácio Labaqui, Maria Antonieta Del Tedesco Lins,
Maria Lorca Sussino,
Carol Wise

12:00pm – 2:00pm: Lunch
Keynote Address: “China's Response to the Global Crisis"
Shaun Breslin (University of Warwick)

2:00pm – 3:45pm: III. Asian Perspectives
Chair: Robert Dekle (USC)
Discussant: Oscar Ugarteche, Natasha Hamilton-Hart, Andrew Walter, Heon Joo Jung, Indiana University
"Awash in Debt: Chinese State Liabilities and Monetary and Welfare Implications" Victor Shih, Northwestern University

4:00 pm – 5:20 pm: IV. Global Impact: Comparative and Cross-Regional Perspectives
Chair: Leslie Elliott Armijo (Portland State University)
Discussant: Joshua Aizenman, John Echeverri-Gent, Leslie Elliott Armijo, Barbara Fritz, Laurissa Mühlich
"Prospects of the Yuan to become a Global Currency" Ulrich Volz, Deutsches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik

5:20pm – 6:00pm: Open discussion
What are the realistic options for Pacific Rim emerging powers to employ financial statecraft to better their political or economic positions in the 21st century? Why?
Chair: Saori N. Katada (USC)