GraSPP Research Seminar
Content List
GraSPP Research Seminar/ SSU Forum
#1 Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline [EN]
In this talk, Prof. David Leheny will introduce his book Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline (Cornell University Press, 2018), focusing on case studies illustrating how a national narrative of “the long postwar” has shaped the ways in which emotion can be deployed in Japanese debates about politics, status, and international relations. The book challenges new analyses of …
#6 UN Peace Operations: Today and Tomorrow [EN]
In this seminar, we will study the present state and the prospect of United Nations peace operations so as to consider how we may contribute to the lasting peace of the world through United Nations peace operations.
GraSPP Research Seminar
#2 A “very good crisis”? ーThe IMF, the Global Financial Crisis and Implications for Reform [EN]
The ongoing G-20 round, led by Japan, has among its areas of focus, global economic governance and the international financial architecture. In this context, the effectiveness of international financial institutions during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of the last decade can provide insights into the challenges of preventing or dealing with future crises, and point the way to needed reforms. …
#3 Comments on Jerry Schiff:A “very good crisis”? ーThe IMF, the Global Financial Crisis and Implications for Reform [EN]
The ongoing G-20 round, led by Japan, has among its areas of focus, global economic governance and the international financial architecture. In this context, the effectiveness of international financial institutions during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of the last decade can provide insights into the challenges of preventing or dealing with future crises, and point the way to needed reforms. …
#4 Days of Future Past? UK Defence in the Indo-Pacific after Brexit [EN]
What is the importance of the Asia-Pacific region to the UK? Dr. Alessio Patalano answers some of the questions that have emerged from the debates on East Asian security in the UK's Parliament.
#5 UN Sanctions and the DPRK [EN]
In this talk, Alastair Morgan, Coordinator of the UN Panel of Experts on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and former UK Ambassador to the DPRK, will introduce the UN sanctions regime on the DPRK and its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and ballistic missile programmes. He will outline the role and work of the UN DPRK Sanctions Panel of Experts which he coordinates, includ…
#7 Denmark and Japan: Burden-sharing and Upholding the rules-based system? [EN]
This seminar features guest speakers from the University of Copenhagen. In an era of American decline, how should allies like Japan and Denmark share the security burden?
#8 Atomic Assurance: The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation [EN]
Do alliances curb efforts by states to develop nuclear weapons? Atomic Assurance looks at what makes alliances sufficiently credible to prevent nuclear proliferation; how alliances can break down and so encourage nuclear proliferation; and whether security guarantors like the United States can use alliance ties to end the nuclear efforts of their allies. Alexander Lanoszka finds that military …