Geostrategy in the Grassroots Series
Economic Statecraft and Security in the Indo-Pacific: Views from Japan, US, and Southeast Asia
Friday, February 9, 2024
from 12:00 PM EDT
(Free In Person Event)
The Foundry, Steam Set Room, 101 Rogers St, Cambridge, MA 02142
Please join us for a very special event presented by the Japan Society of Boston on Economic Statecraft and Security in the Indo-Pacific. Our panel will be moderated by Professor Bill Grimes* and we will be joined by guests Professor Kei Koga and Professor Phillip Lipscy.
The panel will discuss topics such as the evolution of the views of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)/Southeast Asian states on the Indo-Pacific region (e.g. ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific), Japan's defense and military role in Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia's expectations of Japan, international contestation in the region touching on matters such as Japan's geoeconomic strategy, Indo-Pacific strategies including the Free and Open Ind-Pacific vision, Japan's recent defense policy reforms, and major security issues like the rise of China, potential contingency over Taiwan, and North Korea.
This is a public, free, in-person event with option of a light Japanese style bento lunch. Check-in opens at 11:45, and program will start promptly at noon. Pre-registration is required.
If you would like to receive a free bento lunch, please register by 5pm on January 31st, a vegetarian option is also available. All registrations after January 31st will be with no lunch.
This event is sponsored by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation and the National Association of Japan-America Societies as part of their Geostrategy in the Grassroots series, a public affairs program focusing on the geostrategic challenges Japan and the US face in a changing Asia.
*The original moderator for this panel was Professor Kenneth Oye but has been changed due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Speaker: Kei Koga is Head of Division/ Associate Professor at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Concurrently, he is a Nonresident Fellow at The National Bureau of Asia Research (NBR), the United States, and a member of RIPS Research Committee, the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS), Japan. His research focuses on International Security, International/Regional Institutions (particularly ASEAN), and East Asian/Indo-Pacific security.
Previously, he was Japan Scholar at the Wilson Center in 2022; visiting fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in 2017; a Japan-U.S. Partnership Fellow at the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS), Tokyo, in 2012-2014; Postdoctoral Fellow in the International Studies Program, The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, in 2012-2013; a Vasey Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS in 2009–2010; and RSIS-MacArthur visiting associate fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), NTU in 2010. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
He has published on topics that include East Asian/Indo-Pacific security, U.S. and Japanese foreign policies, the U.S.-Japan alliance, and ASEAN.
Speaker: Phillip Y. Lipscy is professor of political science at the University of Toronto, where he is also Chair in Japanese Politics and Global Affairs and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Japan at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. In addition, he is cross-appointed as professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo.
His research addresses substantive topics such as international cooperation, international organizations, the politics of energy and climate change, international relations of East Asia, and the politics of financial crises. He has also published extensively on Japanese politics and foreign policy. Lipscy’s book from Cambridge University Press, ‘Renegotiating the World Order: Institutional Change in International Relations,’ examines how countries seek greater international influence by reforming or creating international organizations.
Before arriving at the University of Toronto, Lipscy was assistant professor of political science at Stanford University. Lipscy obtained his PhD in political science at Harvard University. He received his MA in international policy studies and BA in economics and political science at Stanford University. He is also affiliated with the Program on United States-Japan Relations at Harvard University, Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and the United States-Japan Council.
Moderator:
William W. Grimes is Professor of International Relations & Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Unmaking the Japanese Miracle (Cornell University Press, 2001) and Currency and Contest in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2009), as well as co-editor (with Ulrike Schaede) of Japan’s Managed Globalization: Adapting to the 21st Century (M.E. Sharpe, 2002). Currency and Contest in East Asia was awarded the 2010 Masayoshi Ohira Prize for outstanding book on the Pacific Basin and received an Honorable Mention in the competition for the Asia Society’s Bernard Schwartz Book Award in 2009. He has published articles, book chapters, monographs, and commentary on East Asian financial regionalism, the impacts of financial globalization in Japan, Japanese monetary policy making, US-Japan relations, and related topics.
Professor Grimes received his B.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University, his M.P.A. in International Relations from the Princeton University School of International and Public Affairs, and his Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. He is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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