| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, September 25, 2015 | 1:30PM - 3:30PM | External Event, Main Floor Conference Room, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street |
JAPAN NOW Lecture Series
For the past 70 years, the US government has assumed that Japan’s security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs, China’s rise, and the relative decline of US power have commanded strategic review in Tokyo just as they have in Washington. What is the next step for Japan’s security policy? Will confluence with US interests – and the alliance – survive intact? Will it be transformed? Or will Japan become more autonomous? Professor Samuels will explore how changes in the regional security environment have intersected with changes in domestic Japanese politics to shape Japan’s grand strategic choices.
Richard J. Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2005 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2011 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, by the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Prime Minister. In 2013, Cornell University Press published his book about the political and economic effects of Japan’s March 2011 catastrophes: 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan.
The JAPAN NOW Lecture Series is presented jointly by the Asian Institute and the Consulate General of Japan
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