Dear friends and colleagues,



We are pleased to announce June 14th seminar on the contested zones surrounding the Red Sea, particularly to the Horn of Africa and involving intra and extra regional actors.



Scrambles for access to dual-use transportation infrastructure such as ports, rail links and airports in the Horn of Africa have occurred recently between regional and global powers such as Turkey, the Gulf States, Iran, Japan and China. These security interactions have happened alongside the enduring French entrenchment and US counterterrorism security actions, and necessarily pose a heightened risk of destabilization of the security of an already conflict-ridden area as well as opportunities for development.



This topic also has relevances with BRI of China and Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific vision as it revolves around an area situated in a crucial location between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.



Dr. Cannon, a pioneering expert on this emerging issue, explores and clarifies this complicated situation. A short lunch discussion follows lecture and Q&A.



For attendance, please register by sending e-mail to: office@me.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp <mailto:office@me.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp>


RCAST Security Seminar #14

"Security Interactions and Power Projection in the Horn of Africa: Turkey, Iran, China and the Indo-Pacific Powers."


Speaker: Brendon J. Cannon, Assistant Professor of International Security, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE


Discussant: Mitsugi Endo, Professor of Contemporary African Politics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo


Moderator: Satoshi Ikeuchi, Professor of Religion and Global Security, RCAST, The University of Tokyo


Seminar schedule:


Friday, June 14, 2019

10:30am-12:00 pm Lecture and Q&A by Dr. Cannon

12:00pm-13:00pm Lunch (Sandwiches are served)



Place：

RCAST Building 3, M2F floor, M202 Seminar room-1



Event URL: https://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/events/page_01056.html



RSVP: office@me.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp <mailto:office@me.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp>