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'Battle stations?' Sea Power and Sino-Japanese Security Relations in the East China Sea
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Date:Thursday, September 13, 2012
Time:7:00p.m. (Talk will start at 7:30p.m.) Venue:Temple University, Japan Campus, Mita 5F
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Speaker: Alessio Patalano
Moderator:Robert Dujarric
Admission:Free (Open to general public)
Language:English
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Overview
Over the past few years, maritime security emerged as a crucial factor in the East Asian regional order, especially as China rises as a major regional player.
Is China taking the sea to challenge the American naval dominance in the Pacific? Are the territorial disputes with most of its neighbors, from South Korea in the north to the Philippines in the south, symptomatic of an aggressive strategy? What are the ambitions, opportunities and challenges that underpin Beijing's maritime ascendance and more importantly, what are the implications of this for Japan?
Alessio Patalano, one of the leading experts on Japanese naval affairs, will discuss the different nature of Chinese and Japanese naval strategy in the wider context of Sino-Japanese security relations.

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 is also a research associate of the King's China Institute, a visiting lecturer at the Italian Naval War College (ISMM), Venice, and an adjunct fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan Campus.
(http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/peopl
e/lecturers/patalano.aspx)
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 to Post-
9/11 (Brill/Global Oriental) was published in June 2012 (http://www.brill.nl/maritime-strategy-and-national-sec
urity-japan-and-britain). He is currently completing a second book titled 'Reclaiming the Trident': Imperial Legacy & Japan's Post-war Naval Power.
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