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March 12, 2012
[SSJ: 7278] [Temple ICAS Event] 11 April 2012 Jacques Hymans: Japanese nuclear policy - Institutional obstacles to change
From: ICAS
Date: 2012/03/12
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*Jacques Hymans: Japanese nuclear policy - Institutional obstacles to
change*
*Date:* Wednesday, April 11, 2012 *Time:* 7:00p.m.
(Talk will start at
7:30p.m.) *Venue:*
Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall 212/213
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*Speakers: *
Jacques Hymans
*Moderator:*
Robert Dujarric
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*Outline*
Japan's nuclear policy mix has remained substantially unchanged ever since its origins in the 1950s. Japan has consistently promoted nuclear energy production, attempted to create an entire fuel cycle, and abstained from building nuclear weapons. The earthquake and tsunami that wrecked the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant caused a great surge in anti-nuclear sentiment both in public opinion and in the Diet. Many observers have assumed that this anti-nuclear wave will cause a radical policy shift away from nuclear power.
By contrast, an historical institutionalist analysis suggests that the changes are likely to be more apparent than real, more incremental than dramatic, and at least as responsive to "pro-nuclear" as to "anti-nuclear" sentiments. But at the same time, changes at the prefectural level and in the private sector could severely undermine efforts to implement the policy.
*Speaker*
Jacques E.C. Hymans is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. Hymans' The Psychology of Nuclear
Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2006) received the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for best first book in national and international security, and the Alexander L. George Book Award for best book in political psychology. His second book, Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians, and Proliferation is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2012. His most recent journal article is "Veto Players, Nuclear Energy, and
Nonproliferation:
Domestic Institutional Barriers to a Japanese Nuclear Bomb" in the Fall
2011 issue of International Security. His home page is http://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cf
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