The world has been transformed by the global financial crisis and numerous questions on the future of the international order have emerged. New uncertainties have derived from a shifting power distribution as well as from a series of transnational challenges such as climate change and resource management.

Through these unprecedented developments, the Asia Pacific region is becoming strategically more significant and a key player in international affairs.

To provide an Asian perspective on global strategic concerns, the S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) is organising the inaugural Singapore Global Dialogue, set in the cosmopolitan city of Singapore.

By staging the event in the heart of this strategic region, the Singapore Global Dialogue aims to be Asia's foremost platform to discuss issues of global strategic concern.

This annual event will gather renowned leaders, policymakers, leading practitioners and opinion formers from defence and foreign affairs ministries, various government policy sectors, security forces, academia, think tanks and NGOs from across Asia, North America, Europe and Africa to Singapore.

Speakers and participants of the conference will discuss current developments and explore today's most pressing challenges to the contemporary international order. The themes that will be discussed and debated include the prospects for cooperation or competition between resurging powers; global responses to common transnational uncertainties and the future of global governance.

Through sustained and high level engagements, the Singapore Global Dialogue will influence contemporary debates on international affairs.