Ukraine, Russia, and East Asia

Artyom Lukin, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok.
Valentyna Romanova, PhD in Political Science from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
James D.J. Brown, Temple University Japan.

Moderator: Robert Dujarric, Temple University Japan.

28 February 2022 09:00-10:30 Tokyo
Sunday 27 Feb 19:00 DC/16:00 California

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Overview
The confrontation between Russia and Ukraine is taking place in Europe. But Russia is also an Asian power with close ties to China. Japan, whose security relies on US guarantees, cannot ignore American requests for support. Our panel will discuss these issues and other related questons.

Speakers:
Artyom Lukin has been Deputy Director for Research at the School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia) since 2011. He is also Associate Professor of International Relations there. Lukin earned his PhD in Political Science from Far Eastern State University in 2002. Apart from academic career, he worked as a public relations officer in the Vladivostok City Administration (1998-2002) and at the Russian Far East's biggest energy utility company Dalenergo (2002-2007). Lukin has authored numerous chapters, papers and commentaries, in Russian and English, on Asia-Pacific international politics and Russia's engagement with Asia. His latest monograph (co-authored with Rens Lee) is Russia's Far East: New Dynamics in Asia Pacific and Beyond (2015).

Dr. Valentyna Romanova studied Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She lives in Tokyo, and is a member of the Japan Association of Ukrainian Studies, the Japan Association of Russian and East European Studies as well as Standing Group on Federalism and Regionalism of the European Consortium for Political Research. In 2012-2016, she was an Elections Reports Editor for, and, since 2017, she has been a co-editor of the Annual Reviews of Regional Elections in the UK journal Regional and Federal Studies. Prior to moving to Japan, Romanova was a Senior Consultant at Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic Studies, team leader for the "Political Elites of Ukrainian Regions" project of the University of Tokyo, DAAD Visiting Fellow at the University of Jena, as well as Chevening Scholar and Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research has been published in English, German, Russian and Ukrainian in, among others, Post-Soviet Affairs, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Politics, Survival, Regional & Federal Studies, Vox Ukraine, Democratic Audit Blog, The Ideology and Politics Journal, Politychni doslidzhennia, and the Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, as well as in reports by Chatham House, the Bertelsmann Foundation, and Wilson Center's Kennan Institute. In Fall 2022, her book Decentralisation and Multilevel Elections in Ukraine will be published by ibidem-Verlag.

James D.J. Brown is an associate professor of Political Science at Temple University, Japan Campus. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of York, and postgraduate degrees from the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen. His main area of research is Japan's foreign policy and especially Japan-Russia relations. Dr Brown's work has been published in several academic journals, including International Affairs, Asia Policy, International Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, and Politics. His books include Japan, Russia and their Territorial Dispute: The Northern Delusion (Routledge 2017), Japan's Foreign Relations in Asia, edited with Jeff Kingston (Routledge 2018), and The Abe Legacy, edited with Guibourg Delamotte and Robert Dujarric (Lexington 2021). He also regularly writes op-eds, including for The Nikkei Asian Review, The Japan Times, and The Diplomat.

Moderator
Robert Dujarric, Co-Director, Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan.

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