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Friday 5 July 2019 International Seminar
Japan’s Awakening: Moving Toward an Autonomous Security Policy

On Friday, 5 July 2019, the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer and the Arms and Civil Society Research Forum will host a seminar entitled "Japan’s Awakening: Moving Toward an Autonomous Security Policy".

Dr. Lionel Fatton, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Webster University Geneva, Research Collaborator at the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer and Fellow at The Charhar Institute in Beijing. In this seminar, he will discuss the recent evolution of Japan’s security policy and show how this evolution represents a rupture with the past practices of exclusively defense-oriented posture and heavy reliance on the United States for protection. He will further argue that the adoption by Japan of a more autonomous security policy is triggered by a worsening entrapment-abandonment dilemma, in which Japan worries about the prospect of being abandoned by the United States vis-à-vis China while it fears being dragged into a Korean conflict by its traditional ally.

Date and time

Friday, 5 July 2019, 19:00 p.m.–21:00 p.m. (Venue opens at 18:30 p.m.)

Venue

Room C5, 17th Floor, Global Front Building, Meiji University

Map

Entry fee

Free

Seating capacity

30

Registration

Pre-register before 4 July 2019 at the link below. We will close registration when the number of applicants reaches capacity. Your information will be kept confidential by the Arms and Civil Society Research Forum and will be used only to provide you with information on its events.