International E-Conference: VIJIGISHU 2021 on 'Delineating Global Power Dynamics in the Asia Pacific '

VIJIGISHU 2021 Concept: The strategic construction of Asia Pacific has gained prominence in the late 20th century as an emerging region of analysis in the changing international order, especially in the post-cold war period. There is no consensus on the boundaries of the Asia Pacific, which has largely become a matter of intellectual contestations depending on the imagination of the scholars and the real-time situations. For some, the nucleus has always been Northeast and Southeast Asia (China, Korea, Japan, and ASEAN countries), Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and the smaller Pacific Island States. For others, the region has also…