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24 September 2009 - Event
Asia's security environment
 On 24 September, the Lowy Institute's MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Project hosted a panel discussion on possible Asian security futures. Andrew Shearer, Rory Medcalf and Raoul Heinrichs discussed the long-term implications of the tectonic shifts under way in Asia's power distribution for regional security arrangements. Participants, including Australia's most senior strategic experts, considered questions such as:
• How durable are the foundations of US primacy?
• Would a new security order necessarily be competitive and dangerous, or could it be peaceful and cooperative?
• Might Asia again return to primacy, but with China replacing the US as the dominant regional power?
The event took place in the broader context of a meeting of the Australian chapter of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), the region’s most established 'Track 2' security forum.
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