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Alessio Patalano: Another Midway? Chinese and Japanese Carrier Programs and the Pacific Balance of Power

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Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Time: Door opens at 7:00pm, Program starts at 7:30pm
Venue: Temple University Japan Campus, Mita Hall 5F
(access: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html)
Speaker:Alessio Patalano, Lecturer in War Studies at the Department of War Studies,King's College, London and ICAS adjunct fellow
Moderator: Robert Dujarric, ICAS Director
Admission: Free. Open to public
Language: English
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Overview

Over the past few years, East Asian states have modernized their militaries, prompting analysts to ask if there is an "arms race in the making."
Aircraft carrier programs, especially in China and - to a lesser extent - in Japan, attracted particular attention for their potential to undermine US naval dominance in the Pacific and alter the East Asian chessboard. Is that really the case? Are these programs symptomatic of the making of another Midway in the future?

Alessio Patalano will analyze Chinese and Japanese carrier programs, looking at their evolution and the doctrines which would guide their employment.
Whilst different in nature, both the Chinese and the Japanese programs are indicative of evolving maritime strategies, strategies gauging complex security equations - seeking to balance international ambitions, national power, economic needs, and the limits of political realities.

At a closer look, these programs reveal how the East Asian military
landscape is changing. China and Japan are bound to
play a more
substantial role in regional military dynamics.
Managing this change will
be the key to stave off another Midway.

Speaker

Dr. Alessio Patalano is lecturer in War Studies at the Department of War Studies, King's College, London. His areas of research interest encompass Japanese naval history, Japanese post-war defense policy, Sino-Japanese maritime relations, and Northeast Asian security. In 2009, Dr. Patalano was visiting scholar at Aoyama Gakuin University, and in
2004-05 research
associate at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. He is currently adjunct fellow at ICAS, Temple University Japan Campus.

Dr. Patalano authored articles on different aspects of Japan's post-war defense policy and strategic thinking which appeared in English, Italian and Japanese languages. His latest book is 'Maritime Strategy and National Security in Japan and Britain: From the First Alliance to Post 9/11'
(Brill/Global Oriental 202), and he is currently completing two other
volumes: Security, Disaster Relief, and the Great East Japan Earthquake:
Inside the Japanese Military experience (Palgrave, forthcoming 2013); and Japan as Seapower: Imperial legacy, Wartime Experience and the Making of the Post-war Navy (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2014).

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