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Waseda University
Organization for Japan-U.S. Studies
(WOJUSS) Policy Seminar

Jan. 15, 2014

http://www.kikou.waseda.ac.jp/wojuss/eng/

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Title:
"Sino-Japanese Conflict and Reconciliation in the East China Sea"
Speaker:
Paul Midford
Professor, Director of the Japan Program, the Norwegian University for Science and Technology
(NTNU)
Date/Time:
Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Venue:
Multipurpose Lecture Room, Okuma Memorial Tower (Bldg.#26), Waseda Campus http://www.waseda.jp/jp/campus/waseda.html

Commentator:
Masaru Kohno
Professor of Political Science, Waseda University

Moderator:
Natsuyo Ishibashi
Assistant Professor, WOJUSS, Waseda University

Language:
English
Abstract
This presentation considers the rise of tensions between China and Japan in the East China Sea, especially over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, tensions that have come to predominate in this vitally important bilateral relationship since 2010. It explores how these tensions arose in 2010, and how they have transformed both public and elite Japanese perceptions of China. This presentation considers ways for resolving these tensions through mutual concessions. To resolve the longer term conflict over these islands and the demarcation of these two countries’ respective EEZs, it proposes that the Svalbard model for dividing sovereignty and resource exploitation between contenting parties and the Norwegian-Russian 2010 agreement on delimiting their respective EEZ borders in the Barents Sea can serve as useful models.

Short Bio
Paul Midford is Professor, and Director of the Japan Program, at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. Midford received his PhD. in Political Science from Columbia University in 2001. His research interests include Japanese foreign and defense policies, the impact of public opinion on policy, renewables and energy security, and East Asian security multilateralism. He has published in International Organization, Security Studies, Pacific Review, Asian Survey, Japan Forum, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. Midford is the author of Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security: From Pacifism to Realism? (Stanford University Press, 2011).

※Registration necessary.

Please register at:

http://www.kikou.waseda.ac.jp/wojuss/eng/event/event.ph
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Deadline: Friday, January 10, 2014, 3:00 PM