WIAPS/WINPEC/TGU Lecture
Upcoming Lecture

Peter J. Katzenstein, The Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies
Cornell University

"Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics"

Friday, April 20, 2018
4:30-6 p.m.
Conference Room #1, Building 3, 10F
Waseda University

Long one of the world's leading authorities on international relations and regionalism, Peter Katzenstein will speak at Waseda about his new co-edited (with Lucia A. Seybert) book /Protean Power/. This new volume investigates the meaning of power in a world of uncertainty, in which actors are less able to exercise control to calculable risk and instead must rely on their agility in responding to the unexpected. Described by Michael Barnett (George Washington University) as "...the most important statement on power in international relations in over a decade," /Protean Power/ is a singular and timely contribution to debates about international politics.

Peter J. Katzenstein, The Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, is the author of numerous award-winning books, including /A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium/, /Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar Japan/, and /Small States in World Markets/, as well as the editor and co-editor of many more, including T/he Culture of National Security/, /Anti-Americanisms in World Politics/, and /Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism/. He is a former president of the American Political Science Association, a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the recipient of the Susan Strange Prize from the International Studies Association, among many other honors.

This talk is co-sponsored by the Waseda University Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies (WIAPS), the Waseda Institute of Political Economy (WINPEC), and Waseda's TGU Center for Positive/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy.

For further information, contact David Leheny (dleheny@waseda.jp <mailto:dleheny@waseda.jp>) or Ikuo Kume (kume@waseda.jp).