by Dr Angela Maria Pennisi Di Floristella, University of Malta
Moderator: Dr. Rahul Mishra
Tuesday, 20 September 2022 • 3:30 pm MYT
Venue: ASEM Room, Asia-Europe Institute (hybrid)
Amid a highly volatile landscape in the global economy and unprecedented economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of supply chain resilience has gained traction in both ASEAN and the EU. However, by comparing their paths to resilient supply chains, it becomes clear that while both organizations regard resilience as a departure from past doctrines of pure economic efficiency, each has a different understanding of and approach to supply chain resilience. While for ASEAN supply chain resilience is meant to reconcile inward and outward-looking dimensions to support ASEAN competitiveness, within the EU resilience is associated with the search for strategic autonomy with an internal focus. Despite these differences, the growing awareness of supply chain resilience in both regions may provide some room for ASEAN and the EU to foster their interregional cooperation in this realm.
Dr Angela Pennisi di Floristella is a senior lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of Malta. She received a PhD in Global Politics and European Integration from the Scuola Superiore of the University of Catania. Before joining the Department of International Relations, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Research College The Transformative Power of Europe at the Freie Universität, Berlin and, a research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Studies at the University of Catania. She obtained her first degree in Political Science from the University of Florence and an M.A. in International Affairs, at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), in Milan.
She has been a visiting scholar at the School of International Service (SIS) at the American University (Washington D.C.), at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore, at the Shandong University in Jinan (China) and, at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), in Beijing.
Her research focuses on Asian Pacific security cooperation with a special focus on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), on ASEAN-EU interregional relations and on non-traditional security.
She has authored the book The ASEAN Regional Security Partnership published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2015. Recently published articles include: A. Pennisi di Floristella (2020) Security cooperation in and with Asia: Towards a pragmatic turn in the EU’s security policy?, European Security, 29 (2): 170-188. A. Pennisi di Floristella (2019) US and EU evolving approaches in Southeast Asia in the Trump era: Moving closer to convergence or divergence?, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 38 (2), 172-193.
