KCL-FUB Joint Workshop: Japan’s Changing Diplomatic and Security Practice
The project aims to contribute to the fields of Foreign Policy Analysis and International Security by tackling the under-researched relationship between recent changes in Japanese domestic policy institutions and Japan’s diplomatic and security practice. The project focuses on the “presidentialization” of Japan’s decision-making system, a subject that has substantial importance to understand foreign policy and bilateral relations of contemporary Japan. The project seeks to investigate the changing nature of the relationship linking political leadership and military officials, key strategists and bureaucratic personnel. The project’s hypothesis is that the actors and factors shaping Japanese foreign and defense policy are changing and widening. Within this context, this project focuses in particular on the growing impact of the Kantei, the Prime Minister’s Office.
Program:
October 26 Somerset House SW 1.3/1.4 9:30-18:00
October 27 War Studies Room (K 6.05) 9:30-14:00 (event: 9:30-13:00)
9:30 Introductory remarks – Giulio Pugliese and Alessio Patalano
10:00-11:30 JAPAN’S CHANGING FOREIGN POLICY: THE MILITARY DIMENSION
Chair: Dr. Takako Hikotani – Japan – Columbia University (New York)
Mr. Sebastian Maslow (co-authored w/ Dr. Alexandra Sakaki)– Tohoku University
Japan’s changing arms export policy
Mr. Simon Schwenke – Germany – FUB, GEAS
Japan’s security policy and change in civilian control
Dr. Alessio Patalano – KCL
Japan’s military transformation
12:00-13:30 JAPAN’S CHANGING FOREIGN POLICY & FOREIGN POLICY IDENTITY
Chair: Prof. Verena Blechinger-Talcott – Germany—FUB, GEAS
Dr. Kai Schulze – Germany – FUB, Japanese Studies
The unwanted mediator: Japan’s Iranian catch-22
Dr. Ulv Hanssen – Germany, FUB, GEAS
Japan’s pacifism is dead
Dr. Raymond Yamamoto – Denmark – Aarhus University
Japan’s new ODA strategy - back to Mercantilism?
14:30-16:00 JAPAN’S CHANGING FOREIGN & SECURITY POLICYMAKING
Chair: Prof. Beata Bochorodycz -- Adam Mickiewicz University
Dr. Misato Matsuoka – Japan – ICU/Tokai University
Academics as informal political actors in Japanese security policymaking: linking theory to practice
Dr. Corey Wallace – Germany – FUB, GEAS
Realism, nationalism, and generational change in Japan
Dr. Giulio Pugliese – UK/Italy -- KCL
Between Grand Strategy and grandstanding: the international and domestic politics of foreign policy in 21st Century Japan
16:30 – 18:00 JAPAN’S CHANGING FOREIGN POLICY: JAPAN’S EXTERNAL RELATIONS
Chair: Prof. Chris Hughes – Warwick University
Dr. John Hemmings- London-based - The Henry Jackson Society
From Trilaterals to Quadrilaterals: How Japan went from “San Francisco” to New Delhi
Mr. Takuya Matsuda – King’s College London
The Rise of Reluctant Powers: How Identities as Maritime Powers led to the Resurgence of Japan and India
Dr. May-Britt U. Stumbaum – Germany – FUB, GEAS
Japan’s EU rapprochement amidst Brexit and Trump’s Asia
October 27 War Studies Room (K 6.05) 9:30-14:00 (event: 9:30-13:00)
Roundtable discussions:
9:30-10:30 JAPAN’S CHANGING DIPLOMATIC & ECONOMIC OUTREACH
Moderator: Giulio Pugliese
Verena Blechinger-Talcott
May-Britt Stumbaum
John Hemmings
Raymond Yamamoto
10:45-11:45 JAPAN’S CHANGING FOREIGN POLICYMAKING, CHANGING IDENTITY & IMPACT OF GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Corey Wallace
Kai Schulze
Ulv Hanssen
Beata Bochorodycz
12:00-13:00 JAPAN’S CHANGING DEFENSE AND SECURITY PRACTICE
Takako Hikotani
Simon Schwenke
Alessio Patalano
Sebastian Maslow
The workshop takes place at King's College London and is funded by the King's College London - Freie Universität Berlin Joint Seed Funding scheme. For more information, please refer to the FUB Center for International Cooperation.