Hunting Black Swans & Taming Black Elephants: Governance in a Complex World

What accounts for the growing complexity and unpredictability of our era? What are the cognitive biases and traditional institutional limitations that make it difficult for governments to recognise, prepare for, and confront complex challenges? This first lecture sets out to answer these questions. It also introduces concepts and themes that will be discussed in subsequent lectures.

00.44 mins - Opening Remarks: Mr Janadas Devan, Director IPS

06.20 mins - Speaker: Mr Peter Ho, 2016/17 IPS Nathan Fellow

1:02:30 mins - Q&A chaired by Ms Debra Soon, Chief Customer Officer and Head, English Audience Segment, Mediacorp Pte Ltd

Date: 5 April 2017

Time: 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm

Venue: Guild House, NUSS Kent Ridge,

US-China Relations

This lecture gives an overview of US-China relations, which have set the tone for how East Asia has conducted its international relations. The US-China relationship has been among the most complex of the post-Cold War adjustments underway. The lecture will examine the basic factors that define the parameters of the adjustments and in this context also examine the roles of Japan, Russia and India. It will also examine the South China Sea issue as a proxy for US-China adjustments.

00:14 mins - Speaker: Mr Bilahari Kausikan, 2015/16 IPS Nathan Fellow

1:02:14 mins - Q&A chaired by Prof Chan Heng Chee, Chairman, Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovation Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Date: 25 February 2016

Time: 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm

Venue:

Auditorium 2, Stephen Riady Centre Level 1, University Town

Dealing with an Ambiguous Word - An Age without Definition

The first lecture will examine the factors making for greater uncertainty in the contemporary international system, arguing that the post-Cold War international system lacks structure and hence leadership, leaving many urgent international issues neglected or dealt with only sub-optimally and the global environment more complex. It will thereby try to show how the subjects of subsequent lectures fit into this overall framework.

00:55 mins - Opening Remarks: Mr Janadas Devan, Director IPS

05:31 mins - Speaker: Mr Bilahari Kausikan, 2015/16 IPS Nathan Fellow

58:30 mins - Q&A chaired by Mr Janadas Devan, Director IPS

Date: 29 January 2016

Time: 6.00 pm - 7.30pm

Venue: Guild Hall, NUSS Kent Ridge Guild House

Welcome Remarks by Mr Janadas Devan by Institute of Policy Studies

Remarks by Assistant Professor Eugene Tan by Institute of Policy Studies

Presentation by Dr Gillian Koh by Institute of Policy Studies

Remarks by Mr Goh Sin Teck by Institute of Policy Studies

Remarks by Dr Kevin Tan by Institute of Policy Studies

Session IV: Presentation by Mr Pritam Singh by Institute of Policy Studies

Session III: Presentation by Dr Suzaina Kadir by Institute of Policy Studies