13 September 2024
11:00 Europe/Oslo
Event
Evolving Linkages Between Indo-Pacific and European Security: Challenges and Their Dynamics
NUPI is proud to host Aiko Takahara, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Senior Adjunct Fellow of the Japan Institute of International Affairs, and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Japan Forum on International Relations.
Language: English
NUPI
Seminar
In the Washington Summit Declaration issued by NATO in July, Europe’s security environment is described as characterized by strategic competition, pervasive instability, and recurrent shocks.
Among these challenges, China is emphasized as having stated ambitions and coercive policies that continue to challenge Western interests, security and values. The deepening strategic partnership between Russia and China and their mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut and reshape the rules-based international order, are, in NATO’s words “a cause for profound concern”.
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What are the evolving linkages between European and Indo-Pacific security challenges? And in what direction is this developing?
NUPI is proud to host the distinguished professor Akio Takahara from Tokyo Woman’s Christian University in Japan. He will discuss these issues in conversation with Senior Defence Analyst Per Erik Solli (NUPI) and Junior Research Fellow Charlotte Børing (NUPI). The event is chaired by Research Professor Ole Jacob Sending.
The event is organized by the Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics and is part of the researpch project Roads to Power? The political effects of infrastructure projects in Asia. It will take place at NUPI from 11 AM - 12.30 PM (GMT+2) on Friday 13 September, and will be streamed to our YouTube channel (no need to register to follow us digitally):
Akio Takahara is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Tokyo Woman’s Christian University and former Professor of Contemporary Chinese Politics at the Graduate School of Law and Politics at The University of Tokyo. From April to July 2024, he is also serving as Senior Fellow of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS). He received his DPhil in 1988 from Sussex University, and later spent several years as Visiting Scholar at the Consulate- General of Japan in Hong Kong, the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, Harvard University, Peking University, the Mercator Institute for China Studies, and the Australian National University. Before joining The University of Tokyo, he taught at J. F. Oberlin University and Rikkyo University. He served as President of the Japan Association for Asian Studies, and as Secretary General of the New Japan-China Friendship 21st Century Committee. Akio was Dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy at The University of Tokyo from 2018 to 2020, and Director of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development from 2020 to 2023. He currently serves as Senior Adjunct Fellow of the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Japan Forum on International Relations, Senior Research Adviser of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development, and Trustee of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. His publications in English include The Politics of Wage Policy in Post-Revolutionary China, (Macmillan, 1992), Japan- China Relations in the Modern Era, (co-authored, Routledge, 2017), and “How do smaller countries in the Indo-Pacific region proactively interact with China? An introduction”, Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, DOI: 10.1080/24761028.2024.2309439, 26 January 2024.
Speakers
Aiko Takahara
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University
Charlotte Børing
Junior Research Fellow
Per Erik Solli
Senior Defence Analyst
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Research project
2020 - 2025 (Ongoing)
Roads to Power? The political effects of infrastructure projects in Asia (ROADS)
Does investing in roads and railroads in another country generate increased political influence? ROADS seeks to answer this question by zooming in on China´s role in building high-speed railways (HSR)...
13 September 2024
11:00 Europe/Oslo
Language: English
NUPI
Seminar