Conference on Redesigning Globalization
April 23-24, 2020 | This conference has been postponed.
Location: UC San Diego, The Village, 15th Floor, Rooms 15-A and 15-B
Overview
The Center for Commerce and Diplomacy (CCD) is hosting a conference on "Redesigning Globalization" on April 23-24, 2020. The conference is the first major event in what we at CCD envision as an ongoing dialogue between academics, policymakers and business leaders on how to respond to the forces that are threatening globalization. It is a collaboration with the 21st Century China Center, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, Laboratory for International Law and Regulation, Center for Global Transformation, Center for Peace and Security Studies and the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation.
Policy Objectives: Globalization is held together by an array of different institutions and processes – economic, security, legal, technological and diplomatic – and UC San Diego has centers that specialize in these processes. Our goal is to pool expertise from these centers in order to draw connections between different global activities and institutions. Scholars, policymakers and business people tend to focus on one aspect of globalization in isolation of the others. Our aim is to bring together these different communities to identify and advance policy and institutional recommendations that advance globalization
Each session of the conference will feature two academic presentations, followed by one policy and one business presentation, and then general discussion. The sequential sessions will be attended by all participants. To encourage academics, policymakers and business leaders to engage in meaningful dialogue, the sessions are by invitation only.
Session Topics
- China and the Multilateral Trading System
- Redesigning Regional Agreements: USMCA
- Multilateralism versus Bilateralism
- Labor Standards and Global Supply Chains
- Experimentalist Governance and the Challenge of Climate Change
- National Security, Innovation Policy and Trade Agreements
Agenda
Location: UC San Diego’s Villages 15 A and B
Day 1: April 23
10:30-11 a.m. – Coffee and light refreshments
11-11:30 a.m. – Introductions and Opening Remarks by Dean Peter Cowhey and Center Directors
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. – Session 1: National Security, Innovation Policy and Trade Agreements
1-2 p.m. – Lunch
2-3:30 p.m. – Session 2: Multilateralism versus Bilateralism
3:30-4 p.m. – Coffee Break
4-5:30 p.m. – Session 3: Labor Standards and Global Supply Chains
5:30-6:30 p.m. – Cocktails
6:30-8:30 p.m. – Dinner
Day 2: April 24
9-10:30 a.m. – Session 4: Experimentalist Governance and the Challenge of Climate Change
10:30-11 a.m. – Coffee Break
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. – Session 5: Redesigning Regional Agreements: USMCA
12:30-2 p.m. – Lunch
2-3:30 p.m. – Session 6: China and the Multilateral Trading System
3:30-4 p.m. – Coffee Break
4-5:30 p.m. – Session 7: Action Item Discussion
5:30-6:30 p.m. – Cocktails
6:30-8:30 p.m. – Dinner
Participants
- Craig Allen, President, U.S.-China Business Council
- Chad Bown, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Peter Cowhey, Dean, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego
- Pilar Dieter, Senior Partner, Solidiance
- Yuri Freedman, Senior Director, Business Development, Southern California Gas
- Juan Gallardo, Chairman and CEO, Grupo Azucarero Mexico
- Ildefonso Guajardo, former Secretary of the Economy, Mexico
- Beatriz Leycegui Gardoqui, former Secretary of the Economy, Mexico
- Jon Lindsay, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
- Rodney Ludema, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
- Demetrios Marantis, former United States Trade Representative
- David Michael, Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group
- Layna Mosley, Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina
- Marc Muendler, Professor of Economics, UC San Diego
- Maurice Obstfeld, former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund, and Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
- Monique Rodriguez, Senior Director of Government Affairs, Qualcomm
- Chuck Sabel, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
- Robert Staiger, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
- Robert Thomas, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret.)
- David Victor, Professor of International Relations, UC San Diego
- Miaojie Yu, Professor of Economics, Peking University
Organizing Committee
- Renee Bowen, Director, Center for Commerce and Diplomacy
- Lawrence Broz, Associate Director, Center for Commerce and Diplomacy
- Tai Ming Cheung, Director, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
- Erik Gartzke, Director, Center for Peace and Security Studies
- Thomas Scherer, Center for Peace and Security Studies
- Emilie Hafner-Burton, Co-Director, Laboratory on International Law and Regulation
- David Victor, Co-Director, Laboratory on International Law and Regulation
- Victor Shih, 21st Century China Center
- Susan Shirk, Director, 21st Century China Center
- Lei Guang, Executive Director, 21st Century China Center
- John Ahlquist, Center on Global Transformation
- Rafael Fernandez de Castro, Director, Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies