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*Alessio Patalano on the Senkaku/Diaoyutai Dispute One Year on: * *Sea power and Sino-Japanese Relations*

*Date:* Thursday, September 15, 2011 *Time:* 7:00p.m.
(Talk will start at
7:30p.m.) *Venue:*
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*Speaker: *
Alessio Patalano
*Moderator:*
Robert Dujarric
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*Outline*

Dear friends, we are happy to welcome back Dr. Alessio Patalano, Lecturer in War Studies (East Asian Warfare & Security) at King's College in London and adjunct fellow at our Institute. Alessio will lead a discussion on the geo-politics of Sino-Japanese relations one year after the Senkaku/Diaoyutai incident.

*Speaker*

Dr Patalano is a lecturer in war studies at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and specialises in East Asian security and Japanese naval history and strategy. He completed his PhD at the Department in 2009 and previously earned a *Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies *(DEA) from the *Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales* (EHESS), Paris, and a Masters of Arts (MA) from the Department of War Studies. His research focuses on two primary areas, Japanese contemporary strategy and defence policy, and maritime issues and regional order in East Asia.

At King’s College London, Dr Patalano is also a research associate of the King’s China Institute. Since 2006, he is visiting lecturer in naval strategy and East Asian security at the Italian Naval War College (ISMM), Venice. In Japan, Dr Patalano has been a visiting scholar at Aoyama Gakuin University and at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), both in Tokyo, and currently is adjunt fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan.

Dr Patalano’s articles appeared in academic and professional journals in English, Japanese and Italian.
His first book, *Maritime Strategy and National Security in Japan and Britain from the First Alliance
toPost- 9/11*(Brill/Global Oriental) is forthcoming in 2011, and he is currently completing a second book titled ‘*Reclaiming the Trident’: Imperial Legacy & Professional Identity in Japan’s Post-war Navy*.

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