The Regional Outlook Forum 2008 Summary Report provides the geostrategic outlook for Asia in the coming year It examines the rise of China India and the role of the United States in order to understand how the power game in Asia will play out The Report also focuses on Southeast Asia as the ASEAN Charter seeks to institutionalize regionalism while the forces of environmentalism economic integration and political religious conflict underpin the politics of the region The speakers at ROF 2008 include Takashi Inoguchi C Raja Mohan Yang Jiemian Rikki Kersten Ong Keng Yong Surin Pitsuwan Tommy Koh Anwar Ibrahim Norbert Lammert Lim Teck Ghee Pridiyathorn Devakula Sidney Jones and Thitinan Pongsudhirak among others