SSJ Friends,
YCAPS is pleased to welcome you to a webinar featuring Keio University's Toshiiro and wonderful scholars from across the region sharing their views on the upcoming US Presidential election. Please join us!

Warmest regards,
John Bradford
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YCAPS-JUMP Panel Discussion (via Google Meet)
Regional Perspectives of the 2020 US President Elections
Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 9:00~10:45 (Japan)

The forthcoming US elections are being watched with keen interests in the capitals around the world. Key questions for elections observers revolve around the trajectory of US foreign and domestic policy going forth under a re-elected President Trump or President-elect Biden and what that means for allies and partners of the US.

This session will bring in four voices from four countries/ regions in the Indo-Pacific region including Australia, Japan, Singapore/Southeast Asia, and South Korea. They will share their personal views about the upcoming US elections and how their respective countries see the opportunities and challenges associated with the outcome of the election.

To join please go to https://meet.google.com/gkr-fved-tqp


Dr Rebecca (Bec) Strating is the Executive Director of La Trobe Asia and a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University. Her current research interests include maritime disputes in Asia and Australian foreign and defence policy. In 2019, she was awarded an Asian Studies Visiting Fellowship at the East-West Center in Washington DC, and was a visiting affiliate fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. She is also a non-resident fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre. Bec received her PhD in politics from Monash University in 2013, and in her academic career has published three monographs and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. Her latest monograph 'Defending the Maritime Rules-based Order: Regional States and the South China Sea Disputes' was published by the East West Center in 2020. In 2018, her article on the Timor Sea maritime dispute was awarded the prestigious Boyer Prize for best article published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs in 2017.

Professor Toshihiro Nakayama is a Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy at the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University. He is also a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). He was a Special Correspondent for the Washington Post at the Far Eastern Bureau (1993-94), Special Assistant at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations in New York (1996-98), Senior Research Fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs (2004-06), Associate Professor at Tsuda College (2006-10), and Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University (2010-14). He was also a CNAPS Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution (2005-06), Sir Howard Kippenberger Chair Visiting Professor at the Center for Strategic Studies, Victoria University in Wellington (2017) and a Japan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center (2018-2019). He received his M.A.(1993) and Ph.D.(2001) from Aoyama Gakuin University. He has written two books and numerous articles on American politics, foreign policy and international relations. Recipient of Nakasone Yasuhiro Award (Incentive Award) in 2014.

Nicholas Fang graduated from Oxford University with a Masters in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He joined Singapore's oldest think tank, the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, in 2010. He is currently Director, Security and Global Affairs, at the institute, which was ranked top local think tank, and among the best in Asia and the Pacific over the past seven years. Nicholas started his working life as a journalist, and spent nine years at Singapore's national daily newspaper, rising to the post of Senior Correspondent. He then spent two years as business desk editor at national broadcaster Mediacorp's regional news channel - Channel NewsAsia. He was most recently deputy chief editor of Singapore news at Mediacorp. Nicholas was appointed Nominated Member of the Singapore Parliament in February 2012, and served a two-and-a-half-year term where he focused on issues pertaining to international affairs, media, defence and security, and sports. Nicholas currently chairs the MINDEF expert panel for strategic communications.

Professor J.J. Suh is currently Professor at International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan). He has served as Associate Professor and Director of Korea Studies at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University and Assistant Professor in Department of Government at Cornell University as well as on the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning (Republic of Korea). An expert on the U.S.-Korea relations, U.S. policy toward Asia, international relations of East Asia, international security, and IR theory, he is currently working on regional orders in East Asia, human security, and North Korea. He has authored and edited numerous journal articles and books, including Power, Interest and Identity in Military Alliances (2007); Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power and Efficiency (2004); Truth and Reconciliation in the Republic of Korea: Between the Present and Future of the Korean Wars (2012); Origins of North Korea's Juche: Colonialism, War, and Development (2012);"The Imbalance of Power, the Balance of Asymmetric Terror: Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) in Korea," "Changes in U.S. Military Strategy and the U.S.-Korea Alliance," "The Two-Wars Doctrine and the Regional Arms Race: Contradictions in U.S. Post-Cold War Security Policy in Northeast Asia," and "War-Like History or Diplomatic History? Historical Contentions and Regional Order in East Asia

Moderator: Senior Associate Professor Stephen Nagy
Stephen Nagy is a senior associate professor at the International Christian University in Tokyo; a distinguished fellow with Canada's Asia Pacific Foundation; a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI); and a visiting fellow with the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA). Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from December 2009 to January 2014. He obtained his PhD from Waseda University, Japan in International Relations in December 2008. He also serves as the Director for Policy Research, for the Yokosuka Council for Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS)

Webinar Cost: Free of charge
Co-sponsors: Japan-US Military Program (JUMP)

Please register by RSVP to info@ycaps.org. RSVP not required, but helpful for organizers.