Program on US-Japan Relations Seminar

Speakers: Masashi Murano, Japan Chair Fellow, Hudson Institute
Thomas U. Berger, Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.

Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Eurasian security has been transformed due to the crises on its western and eastern perimeters.  In this panel, Masashi Murano will examine Japan's policy responses to Northeast Asia's security environment, while Thomas Berger will analyze German policy in the context of European security. 

To join by Zoom, please register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlde2orj0vGtWq-H-WR_ojldFOD8IRSTbC

Co-sponsored by the International Security Program

Speaker: Nicholas Mulder, Assistant Professor of History and Milstein Faculty Fellow, Department of History, Cornell University

Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Nicholas Mulder will draw on his recently published book, The Economic Weapon, which traces the use of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the policing of colonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism. He uses extensive archival research in a political, economic, legal, and military history that reveals how a coercive wartime tool was adopted as an instrument of peacekeeping by the League of Nations. 

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https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqdOGtqTkrGtFR4lKDaYimYdf1C5gkW7bS

Co-sponsored by the International Security Program

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Join the Harvard Program on U.S.-Japan Relations on Tuesday, March 31 from 12:30-2:00 to hear from Tomomichi Amano, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Marketing Unit, Harvard Business School.

Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; and the Business & Environment Initiative, Harvard Business School.

Speaker: Shinsuke Sugiyama, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America

Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Drawing on his distinguished service as Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs (Japan's highest diplomatic position), Director-General of the Asian and Oceanic Affairs Bureau, and Director of the Treaties Division, Ambassador Sugiyama will discuss the U.S.-Japan security cooperation as the two countries mark the 60th anniversary of their security treaty in 2020. He will also explore possible future trajectories of the bilateral alliance in changing regional and global security environment.

Co-sponsored by the International Security Program

Speaker: Richard J. Samuels, Ford International Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Professor Samuels will discuss his recently published book, Special Duty, which analyzes the prewar and postwar development of the Japanese intelligence community. He will detail the impact of shifts in the strategic environment, technological change, and past failures, using examples of excessive hubris and debilitating bureaucratic competition before the Asia-Pacific War, the unavoidable dependence on U.S. assets and popular sensitivity to security issues after World War II, and the tardy adoption of image-processing and cyber technologies.

Co-sponsored by the International Security Program

Speaker: Narushige Michishita, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University

In this seminar, Professor Michishita will examine developments on the Korean Peninsula over the past few decades, and pose several different future scenarios. He will then explain how Japan would respond to each scenario, and how each scenario will also affect Japan's security and foreign policies in the long run.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute's SBS Foundation Research Fund and the International Security Program

Speakers: Sheila A. Smith, Senior Fellow for Japan Studies, Asia Program, Council on Foreign Relations 

Noriyuki Shikata, Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School 

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University

This panel will examine contemporary developments in Japanese foreign and security policies. Sheila Smith will draw on her recent book, Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power, and examine the shifting debate within Japan regarding the use of force. Noriyuki Shikata will discuss contemporary Japan-China diplomatic relations, drawing on his recent experience as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan in Beijing. Joseph Nye will examine Japanese foreign and security policies in the context of U.S. grand strategy in Asia.

Co-sponsored by the International Security Program

Speaker: John Park, Director of the Korea Working Group and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

In this seminar, Dr. John Park will examine the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) missile and nuclear capabilities and strategic behavior; recent developments in the Republic of Korea's (ROK) policies toward DPRK; and the evolving policy debate in Japan, China, and the United States in response to the latest developments on the Korean Peninsula.

Co-sponsored by the International Security Program

This seminar will examine the history of the U.S. nuclear umbrella for Japan and South Korea, the role the umbrella plays in Japanese, South Korean, and U.S. security planning, and questions regarding the credibility of the commitment.

Speaker: Michael Green, Associate Professor of International Relations and Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

In this seminar, Professor Michael Green will present materials from his forthcoming book, By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific since 1783 (Columbia University Press, 2017). Soon after the American Revolution, the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the center of the continent, or Japan, looking toward the Pacific. Where should the United States draw its defensive line, and how should it export democratic principles?

Co-Sponsored by the International Security Program and the Harvard University Asia Center.

Speaker: Ryosei Kokubun, President, National Defense Academy of Japan.

Speaker:  Celeste Arrington, Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University.

Program on US-Japan Relations Seminar

Speaker: Adam Segal, Marice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations.

Program on US-Japan Relations Seminar

Speaker: Hirotaka Takechu, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School