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[Webinar] International Cybersecurity Challenges: From Threats to Cooperation
March 30, 2023 — Asia Society Korea brought together three experts to discuss the increasingly critical topic of international cooperation for countering cybersecurity risks. Participants included H.E. Michael Reiterer, former Ambassador of the European Union to South Korea and distinguished professor at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy, and Strategy at Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Cai Cuihong, Professor of International Relations at Fudan University; and Lee Sangho, Professor of Politics and Diplomacy at Daejeon University. Asia Society Korea senior contributor Mason Richey moderated the conversation.
Beginning with a comprehensive look at the international cyber threat landscape to the possibility of international cooperation to mitigate those threats, the webinar highlighted the importance of building bridges between the technical and political spheres in an international context now more than ever. The webinar also served as an opportunity to discuss H.E. Michael Reiterer's new edited volume Cybersecurity Policy in the EU and South Korea from Consultation to Action.
Mason Richey (Moderator) is a senior contributing writer to Asia Society Korea and an associate professor of international politics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea). Dr. Richey has also held positions as a POSCO Visiting Research Fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu, HI) and a DAAD Scholar at the University of Potsdam.
His research focuses on U.S. and European foreign and security policy as applied to the Asia-Pacific. Recent scholarly articles have appeared (inter alia) in Pacific Review, Asian Security, Global Governance, and Foreign Policy Analysis. Shorter analyses and opinion pieces have been published in War on the Rocks, Le Monde, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, and Forbes, among other venues.
Dr. Richey received his Ph.D. from Binghamton University, New York.
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H.E. Michael Reiterer is Former Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of Korea, and most recently held the position of Principal Advisor at the Asia and Pacific Department at the European External Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels, where he oversaw strategic and security matters. He previously served as EU Ambassador to Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein (2007–2011), Minister/Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to Japan (2002–2006), and ASEM Counselor (1998–2002).
In addition to holding degrees in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and the Johns Hopkins University/Bologna Center, Ambassador Reiterer studied law at the University of Innsbruck (Dr. Juris). In 2005, he was appointed adjunct professor (Dozent) for international politics at the University of Innsbruck. Time permitting, he teaches at various universities and specializes in EU foreign policy, EU-Asia relations, and interregionalism, areas in which he has published extensively.
He is currently serving as Distinguished Professor for International Security and Diplomacy at the Institute of European Studies in Vrje Universiteit Brussel (VUB), as Adjunct Professor of International Politics at the University of Innsbruck and as Adjunct professor at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali "Guido Carli" (LUISS) in Rome. He also serves as Associate Fellow for the Global Fellowship Initiative at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), Senior Research Associate at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies and Senior Advisor to the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy (CAPS), Washington D.C.
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Sangho Lee is Professor of Politics and Diplomacy at Daejeon University, ROK. He previously served as an assistant administrator of the ROK Navy Development Committee and as chairman of the Korea Cyber Peace and Security Forum. He is the Vice President of The Korea Association of National Intelligence Studies. Lee was a researcher in the Department of Security Strategy Studies at the Sejong Institute, ROK; at the Korea Research Institute for Strategy (KRIS); and at the Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College London, UK.
Previously, he also served as an adjunct professor at Gyeonggi University and Hannam University, ROK. Lee received his Ph.D. in War Studies from King’s College London.
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Cuihong Cai, Ph.D., is a professor of international relations with the Center for American Studies at Fudan University. She received her B.S. (1993) and M.S. (1996) in biophysics as well as her Ph.D. (2002) in international relations from Fudan University. She was a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002, and at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007, as well as an invited fellow in the 2007 program on the U.S. National Security sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
Dr. Cai is the author of Cyberpolitics in U.S.-China Relations (English 2021, Chinese 2019), Political Development in the Cyber Age (2015), U.S. National Information Security Strategy (2009) and Internet and International Politics (2003), as well as several dozen articles and papers on cyberpolitics, cybersecurity strategy, cyberspace governance, and U.S.-China relations.
