National interests and the Role of Major and Middle Powers in the SCS
Session 4 of the conference on "The South China Sea in the Broader Maritime Security of the Indo-Pacific Conference", 28-30 September 2016, Canberra, Australia. This conference is co-organized by UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV), and the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA).

Chair: Ambassador Nguyen Duc Hung, Senior Advisor on Maritime Issues, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (former Ambassador to Singapore and Canada)
Speaker 1: Mr Tetsuo Kotani, Senior Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), Tokyo, Japan
Topic: Japan
Speaker 2: Ms Darshana Baruah, Research Analyst, Carnegie India Foundation, New Delhi, India
Topic: India
Speaker 3: Dr Shafiah F. Muhibat, Deputy Head of Department of Politics and International Relations, CSIS Jakarta, Indonesia
Topic: Indonesia
Speaker 4: Dr Euan Graham, Director, International Security Program, Lowy Institute for International Policy
Topic: Australia
Discussant and Q&A: Professor Shirley Scott, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales