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China is becoming more powerful and assertive on the international stage, and the balance of power in the region is changing quickly. Dr. Narushige Michishita of GRIPS will discuss Japan’s three-pronged security strategy in the face of this challenge.

Moderator: Saadia M. Pekkanen, Professor, University of Washington Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

Speaker: Dr. Narushige Michishita is Professor, Vice President, and Deputy Director of the Global Leadership Development Program at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. He acquired his Ph.D. from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. A specialist in Japanese security and foreign policy as well as security issues on the Korean Peninsula, he is the author of North Korea’s Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008 (Routledge, 2009), and Lessons of the Cold War in the Pacific: U.S. Maritime Strategy, Crisis Prevention, and Japan’s Role (Woodrow Wilson Center, 2016, co-authored with Peter M. Swartz and David F. Winkler).

This webinar is co-hosted by the UW Japan Studies Program, the UW East Asia Center and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Japan. The program will be a 90-minute Zoom webinar consisting of a lecture, Q&A, and discussion session. This webinar is part of a project supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan which aims to promote better understanding of Japan’s foreign and security policy among specialists, students, and informed citizens in other countries.

Free and open to the public world-wide