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Seminar - New Challenges to East Asian Security

  • Speakers: Seiichiro Takagi, Nobumasa Akiyama, Narushige Michishita and Motohiro Tsuchiya

  • Date: Wednesday 23 November from 4.00 to 6.00pm

  • Venue: Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin,

Special seminar organised by Dr Koji Kagotani, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin.

Programme

  • The Rise of China and Japan's Response - Seiichiro Takagi, Senior Associate Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs

  • Nuclear Security after Fukushima Nuclear Accident - Nobumasa Akiyama, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law and Graduate School of International Public Policy Hitotsubashi University

  • North Korea's Nuclear/Missile Development and Japanese Security - Narushige Michishita, Associate Professor, Security and International Studies Program of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

  • Japan and Cybersecurity - Motohiro Tsuchiya, Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance and Deputy Director of Global Security Research Institute (G-SEC) at Keio University

Speaker Biographies

TakagiSeiichiro Takagi

Dr. Seiichiro Takagi is a Senior Associate Fellow of the Japan Institute of International Affairs. Before occupying the present position, he has long served as a professor at the School of International Politics, Economics, and Business, The Aoyama Gakuin University. He obtained Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University.

After having taught at Saitama University and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies for over 20 years, he became Director of the Second Research Department, The National Institute for Defense Studies in April 1999. He moved to the Aoyama Gakuin University in April 2003.

He is a specialist on Chinese foreign relations and security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. He is a member of the Japan Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP), a board member of the Program for International Studies in Asia (PISA), an international academic NGO based in the George Washington University, and a board member of the Japan Association for International Security (JAIS).

His recent publications in English include China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan and the United States (co-edited with Robert Ash and David Shambaugh, with contribution, Routledge, 2007); "The Taiwan factor in Japan-China relations," in Lam Peng Er, ed., Japan's Relations with China (Routledge, 2006); "The Asia-Pacific Nations: Searching for Leverage," in Ramon H. Meyers, Michael C. Oksenberg and David Shambaugh (eds.), Making China Policy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001); and "In Search of a Sustainable Equal Partnership: Japan-China Relations in the Post-Cold-War Era," in Japan Review of International Affairs, Vol.13, No.1 (Spring 1999).

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AkiyamaNobumasa Akiyama

Nobumasa Akiyama is Associate Professor of Graduate School of Law and Graduate School of International Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University. Also, he serves as Adjunct Research Fellow of the Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA).

Prior to the current positions, he worked as Research Associate and then as Assistant Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute (HPI) of the Hiroshima City University. He also has been a member of Advisory Committee on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation for the Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2010.

His recent publications in English include “Dynamics of Global-Regional Concerns on Proliferation: Who Should Be Responsible?” in N.S. Sisodia and A.K. Behuria, eds., West Asia in Turmoil: Implication for Global Security (New Delhi, Academic Foundation, 2007); “Human Security at the Crossroad: Human Security in the Japanese Foreign Policy Context,” in Hideaki Shinoda and Ho-Won Jeong, eds., Conflict and Human Security: A Search for New Approaches of Peace-building (Hiroshima: Institute for Peace Science, University of Hiroshima, 2004); “Article 24 Crises’ and Security Council Reform: A Japanese Perspective”, Journal of East Asia and International Law, vol. 2, no.1, Spring 2009; ”Blabbing or Bluffing: Discourse over the Nuclear Option in Japan,” The Henry L. Stimson Center Quarterly Update on East Asian Security, vol.1, issue.2, Fall 2002;  “Avoiding a Marriage of Convenience: Some Thoughts on a New Japanese State-NGO Relationship in Humanitarian Relief in Conflict,” Peace Studies Bulletin, no.20 (June 2001).

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Narushige Michishita

Narushige Michishita is Assistant Professor of Security and International Studies Program of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) from April 2004 . His field of study is International Relations (Strategic Studies) and Area Studies (Japan, Korea).His current research interest is historical analysis of Japanese defense and foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s.

He graduated from the Korean Language Institute, Yonsei University, Seoul, in 1988. And he earned B.A. in international relations from the College of International Relations, University of Tsukuba in 1990, M.A. in international relations (strategic studies) and international economics and Ph.D. with distinction in international relations (Asian studies) from The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University in 1994 and 2003, respectively.

His recent publications include: North Korea's Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008 (Routledge, 2009), "Playing the Same Game: North Korea's Coercive Attempt at U.S. Reconciliation," The Washington Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3 (October 2009); "The Future of North Korean Strategy," The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, vol. 21, no. 1 (March 2009); "Japan's Response to 9-11," in Han Sung-Joo, ed., Coping With 9-11: Asian Perspectives on Global and Regional Order (Tokyo: Japan Center for International Exchange, 2003); "Changing Faces of Japanese Defense Policy: Past and Future," Global Economic Review, vol. 31, no. 4 (2002); "Alliances After Peace in Korea," Survival, vol. 41, no. 3 (Autumn 1999).

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TuschiyaMotohiro Tsuchiya

Motohiro Tsuchiya is Professor of Graduate School of Media and Governance and Deputy Director of Global Security Research Institute (G-SEC) at Keio University in Tokyo.

Prior to joining the Keio faculty, he was Associate Professor at the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan. He researched in Washington, DC, as visiting scholar at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM), University of Maryland, and at Cyberspace Policy Institute (CPI), George Washington University.

From March 2008 to March 2009 he was a visiting scholar at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Center for International Studies. He is interested in the impact of the information revolution on international relations; regulations regarding telecommunications and the Internet; and global governance and information technologies.

He is also a member of the National Information Security Council of the Japanese government.

He authored Information and Global Governance (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2001, in Japanese), Net Politics (Tokyo: Iwanami Publishing, 2003, in Japanese), Network Power (Tokyo: NTT Publishing, 2007, in Japanese), Intelligence and National Security (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2007, in Japanese), Network Hegemony (Tokyo: NTT Publishing, 2011, in Japanese), and co-authored 20 other books. He earned his BA in political science, MA in international relations, and Ph.D. in media and governance from Keio University.

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