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*Garren Mulloy: Effective International Actors?
Japan Self-Defense Forces Overseas Dispatch Operations
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*Date:* Friday, December 9, 2011 *Time:* 7:00p.m.
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*Speaker: *
Garren Mulloy
*Moderator:*
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*Outline*

One aspect of the changes in Japanese security policies since the Cold War has been the dispatch of Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) overseas to engage in a range of missions most commonly referred to as ‘PKO’.
Beyond the initial political controversy and the attendant media frenzy little is generally known of the nature of the operations, of JSDF duties, and of whether the Forces carried them out effectively or efficiently. The JSDF, Defense Agency/Ministry of Defense, and other public bodies have failed to analyze overseas dispatch operation (ODO) performance, and have generally branded them as successful based upon their completion, and without loss of life, in contrast with Japanese police ODO.

Looking at ODO during the 1990s it is possible to project analyses forward into the operations of the 21st century to evaluate the operations of the
post-9.11 period and the prevailing strategic policies driving them, and also to more fully understand the qualities and limitations of JSDF performance in the immediate aftermath of the 3.11 triple disasters. Since JSDF ODO have become the most prominent symbols of an emergent ‘new Japanese strategy’ it is worth understanding whether the Forces have actually been ‘effective international actors’.

*Speaker*

Garren Mulloy is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of International Relations, Daito Bunka University. He graduated with an MA (modern history) from Dundee University, Scotland, after which he served in the British Army, business, and local government before coming to Japan in 1993, and recently completed his PhD at Newcastle University. His doctoral thesis is entitled Japan Self-Defense Forces’ Overseas Dispatch Operations in the
1990s: Effective International Actors? He has written extensively on peace operations, military reform, the JSDF, diplomacy, and nationalism, in addition to naval history (“19th Century RMA”, in Tadokoro, Masayuki (ed.), The Royal Navy and Pax Britannica, Yuhikaku, 2006, in Japanese), and is presently engaged in a war and memorialisation project.

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