After a one-month hiatus, the next meeting of the workshop is Thursday, April 21, noon, at the usual place in Shaken.* Presenting will be Christian Wirth, a Swiss PhD Candidate in International Studies at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda. His project is "The Nexus Between Traditional and Non-Traditional Security Cooperation in Japan-China Relations:
Constructing a New Northeast Asia." It is often argued, Chris says, that in East Asia international cooperation is politically easier to achieve in response to non-traditional security concerns than for traditional security issues, and that such cooperation helps build political trust among governments. To address this proposition, he examines the evolution of cooperation--and the obstacles--in cases of traditional security (diplomatic interaction, CSBM) and non-traditional security (environmental pollution and ocean management) in Japan-China relations since the mid-1990s.

These workshops consist of short informal presentations and losts of discussion. Guests are welcome; I appreciate your letting me know in advance but it isn't required.

John Campbell

*Meetings of the Shaken Social Science Dissertation Workshop start at 12 pm and go to 1:30 and sometimes beyond. The Institute of Social Science provides coffee and tea and you are welcome to bring lunch. The location is a seminar room on the 5th floor in the Akamon General Research (Sougou Kenkyuu) Building at Todai. The building is down a little passage to the
right after you come through Akamon. For a map, go
to:

http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_08_02_e.html