Organization: SSRC Tokyo Office

The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership/Abe Fellowship Program 25th Anniversary Symposium

"Emerging Futures in a Changing World"

A number of large, systemic shifts have occurred over the past 25 yearsincluding the reemergence of
China, the proliferation of new internationalorganizations (AIIB, G20) and the changing roles of
regional institutionsand arrangements for cooperation (ASEAN, EU). Power has become moredispersed,
trade more complex, public support more volatile, diplomacy moreimmediate, and global governance
even more elusive. The current system ofinternational relations and the existing set of Bretton
Woods Institutions(IMF, World Bank, WTO) face increasing pressure to adapt to these emergingtrends
and developments.

The 25th anniversary of The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnershipand the Abe Fellowship
Program provides a useful opportunity for reflectingon the many ways in which the international
system has changed and developedover the last quarter century. The symposium will focus on the
challengesand issues that Japan and the US have faced as well as the role of theAmerican and
Japanese intellectual communities in enhancing ourunderstanding and efforts to resolve them. Abe
Fellows have tackled many ofthese issues over the last quarter century and the symposium will draw
ontheir work. Panelists will also discuss the future in the context of thelarger geopolitical trends
in trade, finance, security, and diplomacy.

Program:

The US-Japan Partnership in the Context of a Changing World

- Yukio Okamoto (President, Okamoto Associates)

- Gerald Curtis (Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science,
Columbia University)

Experts Dialogue

- Akihiko Tanaka (Professor of International Politics, University
of Tokyo)

- Sheila Smith (Senior Fellow for Japan Studies, Council on Foreign
Relations)

- Yoshihide Soeya (Professor of Political Science and International
Relations, Keio University)

Panel 1: International Relations and Global Security

- Yoshiko Kojo (Professor of International Relations, University of
Tokyo)

"Clash of Global Public Goods in Globalizing World: State and Private Actors
in Global Governance"

- Akio Takahara (Professor of Contemporary Chinese Politics,
University of Tokyo)

"What China's Rise Means for Japan and the United States"

- Richard Samuels (Ford International Professor, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology)

"Choices and Changes in Japan's Security Environment"

- Muthiah Alagappa (Distinguished Scholar in Residence, American
University)

- Hiroshi Nakanishi (Professor of Government, Kyoto University)

Panel 2: Transnational Economic and Financial Institutions

- Kaoru Sugihara (Senior Professor, National Graduate Institute for
Policy Studies)

"The Asia-Pacific Economy and the Rise of China: An Historical Overview"

- Mireya Solis (Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution)

"The Emerging Trade Architecture and TPP: Renewing U.S. Leadership"

- Saadia Pekkanen (Gertrud Tamaki Professor, University of
Washington)

"Asian Governance in the World Order"

- Takatoshi Ito (Professor of International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University)

- Barbara Stallings (Williams R. Rhodes Research Professor, Brown
University)

Date & time:
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 1:00-6:00 p.m. (Doors open at 12:00 p.m.)

Venue:
Toranomon Hills Forum, Main Hall (Toranomon Hills Mori Tower 5th Floor,
1-23-3, Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
http://forum.academyhills.com/toranomon/en/access/index.html

RSVP:
https://comm.stage.ac/fellow25th/

More information is available at:

http://www.ssrc.org/events/view/25th-anniversary-symposium-emerging-futures-in-a-changing-world/