Teamwork

In the first meeting the cohort will form teams of three each. This team is yours for the rest of the semester. Each team will focus on one ongoing policy problem and will represent one nation throughout (for concreteness, let's choose from ASEAN +), allowing your perspective by the end of the course to converge closer towards that of your PP5182-country.

Policy problems include trade tariffs; export restrictions; semiconductor dependence; critical minerals supplies; digital trade; AI governance; regional payment systems; food security; maritime logistics; energy transition; and so on.

Your PP5182-country is ideally one of the ASEAN nations—just to keep things under control. No one gets to be the US or China. Economic diplomacy is about what small states have to do.

Team assignments will be made by week 2, so that thereafter on every discussion you should be asking “What does my PP5182-country think?”