You are cordially invited to the next Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies seminar, co-sponsored with Japan-US Military Program on January 10. Please find the updated venue below.

Leo Lin

Research Affairs, Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies

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Date & Time: January 10, 2019
17:30-18:30 Welcome Reception
18:30-20:30 Seminar




Location: Conference room 1, Werk Yokosuka Kinrofukushi Hall ヴェルクよこすか（横須賀市立勤労福祉会館）第1会議室
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Cost: Free of charge. Please register on Facebook or RSVP to info@ycaps.org <mailto:info@ycaps.org> by Jan.8.



Abstract:
In his presentation, Dr. Paul Midford will ask why Japan pursued regional security isolationism during the Cold War, and why it suddenly ended this isolationism on the cusp of the Cold War's end, embracing regional security multilateralism. His talk will focus on the July 1991 Nakayama proposal, and the resulting legacy of more than a quarter century of Japanese leadership in promoting regional security multilateralism.




Dr. Midford identifies several challenges in Japan's pivot from security isolationism toward security engagement and leadership. First, in terms of overcoming Japan's post war reputational problem, the reassurance imperative is the most important factor in explaining both Japan's security isolationism during the Cold War and its subsequent active promotion of regional security multilateralism. His presentation also identifies two other motivations for promoting regional security multilateralism: to mitigate its alliance security dilemma of entrapment versus abandonment vis-a-vis the US, and to build new security utilities not provided by the US-Japan alliance in non-traditional security areas, including counter-piracy, counter-terrorism, countering illicit trafficking in drugs, human smuggling, etc., and humanitarian and disaster relief operations (HaDR). His forthcoming co-edited volume, The EU-Japan Partnership in the Shadow of China, the Crisis of Liberalism will be published in 2019. (Routledge, 2019)




About the Speaker:
Dr. Paul Midford is the Director of the Japan Program at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. He was a Monbusho Scholar at Aoyama Gakuin University and has worked at the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS) and the National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA). Dr. Midford taught international and comparative politics at Japanese universities for more than seven years, including Kanazawa University, Hokuriku University and Kwansei Gakuin University. Beyond teaching Japanese politics, his research interests include how Japanese public opinion and political parties are influencing Japan's evolving security strategy. He is the author of Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security: From Pacifism to Realism? (Stanford University Press, 2011).




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