EU Institute In Japan Tokyo
First Half Year Reportof2011 Academic Year

April - September/2011

November, 2011

EU Institute In Japan Tokyo First Half Year Report of 2011 Academic Year
Table of Contents
Activities

1) Hitotsubashi University……………………………………………………………………………… 1(1) Special Lecture by Takako Ueta, Professor, ICU (Project no. Hitotsubashi2011 (1H)-1)(2) Special Lecture by Gabriella Airaldi, Professor, University of Genova (Italy)2) International Christian University…………………………………………………………………….. 19(1) Credit Exchange (Project no. ICU2011 (1H)
(2) Reciprocal Use of Libraries (Project no. ICU2011 (1H)-2)(3) Open Lecture “EU and Japan in the Changing World” (Project no. ICU2011 (1H)-3)(4) Lecture and Discussion: Thinking about Evil Jointly held by Socrates Café and EUIJ Tokyo
Consortium (Project no. ICU2011 (1H)-4)
3) Tsuda College……………………………………………………………………………………………44(1) EUIJ Public Lecture (Project no. Tsuda2011 (1H)-1)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Division of roles
Hitotsubashi University

Organizer

International Christian University

Academic affairs

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Research affairs

Tsuda College

External affairsReport of Activity under the EUIJ Tokyo Project
Title of activity:

Special Lecture by Takako Ueta, Professor, ICU
Project no. Hitotsubashi2011(1H)-1

Purpose of activity:

To promote understanding between the EU and Japan

Description/Program:

Theme: “Foreign and Security Policy of the EU andJapan — EU relations in the Era of Global Power Shift”

Date(s):

8:50-10:20 on Friday, 27 May, 2011
Professor Takako Ueta, International Christian
University

Universities/Person(s)involved:

Profile:She served as the Deputy Chief of the Mission ofJapan to the EU from 2008 to 2011 and was
responsible for political and security affairs. She was aspecial assistant to the Embassy of Japan to Belgium,in the area of NATO and European security.

Place of activity:

Room 2201, 2nd floor East Lecture Building 2, East
Campus, Hitotsubashi University

Financial resources:

EUSI/EUIJ

Results:

Approximately 300 attendants including EUSI and
EUIJ Tokyo consortium students attended and had afruitful exchange of views on this theme.

Future perspectives:

We would like to continue to organize special lectures topromote mutual understanding between the EU andJapan and to acquire a wider range of basic knowledge
about the EU.

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Report of Activity under the EUIJ Tokyo Project
Title of the Activity:

Special Lecture by Gabriella Airaldi, Professor, Universityof Genova (Italy)
Project no. Hitotsubashi2011(1H)-2

Purpose of the Activity:

To promote understanding the European History

Description/Program:

Theme: “International relations and the colonial system inmedieval Genoa”

Date(s):

15:00-19:00 on Sunday, 17 July, 2011
Professor Gabriella Airaldi, University of Genova (Italy)

Universities/Person(s)involved:

Profile:She is one of the most distinguished historians on
medieval Italy in the world. She has been Professor at
University of Genoa, now Emeritus Professor from 2010.
She is also the Director of Research Program on Genoese
History for a long time.

Place of the Activity:

Sano-Shoin, Hitotsubashi University

Financial resources:

Hitotsubashi University

Results:

Approximately 30 attendants including EUSI and EUIJ
Tokyo consortium students attended and had a fruitfulexchange of views on this theme.

Future perspectives:

We would like to continue to organize Special Seminars topromote understanding the History and the current
situation of Europe and to acquire a wider range of basic
knowledge about the EU.

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一橋大学

２０１１年５月２７日

グローバルパワーシフトの時代の EU と日 EU 関係
植田隆子 現国際基督教大学教授
前 EU 代表部政治安保担当次席大使（２００８年７月―２０１１年 3 月）
１．在任中の重要な出来事
ロシアのグルジア侵攻―イスラエルのガザ攻撃―ガス危機（ロシア対ウクライナ）
経済金融危機 ユーロ危機 ――― グローバルパワーシフト（EU 側の懸念としては、経済力の低下は国際社会における発言力、影響力の低下を招く）
リスボン条約の発効（２００９．１２）欧州対外活動庁の発足（２０１１.１）
EU による戦略パートナーのレヴュー（とくに中国）
北アフリカ、中東の民主化の動き

リビアに対する軍事行動

日本：政権交代、尖閣、震災
２．欧州統合の現段階
経済・通貨統合
司法内務協力分野の統合の進展
外交安全保障分野―加盟国が１００％決定権を持つ
統合の深化（国家主権を統合体に委譲・プールする）と加盟国数の拡大
ユーロ危機、景気の低迷は、「EU が国際社会で一つの声で発言する」ドライブになるか？
３．リスボン条約発効（２００９年１２月）による EU の外交安保を支える役職、組織の設置
ファン＝ロンパイ欧洲理事会常任議長（首脳級）前職はベルギー首相、俳句が趣味 （日EU 関係についてのスピーチは資料として配布）
アシュトン外務安保上級代表兼欧州委員会副委員長（外相級）前職は貿易担当欧洲委員、
英労働党の政治家
欧州対外活動庁（EEAS） 外務省に当たる組織
駐日 EU 代表部シュヴァイスグート大使（オーストリアの駐日大使、駐中国大使、EU 常駐
代表を歴任）
４．EU 外交の優先課題
隣接地域の安定 東方（ベラルーシ、ウクライナ、南コーカサスの国々）、地中海の対岸の国々、中東和平13

世界の大国（EU 用語で戦略パートナー）との関係
アジア太平洋に戦略的関心を持つ国は少ないため、EU との戦略的協調は容易ではなく、十分な意思疎通が必要。
＊中国は、EU 加盟国の直接の軍事安全保障上の脅威でない。
＊＊EU 圏が第三国からの軍事攻撃の対象となる可能性は極めて低い見積もり
５．EU 外交の共通化例
NPT 運用検討会議
イランの非核化 EU3+3(P5＋１)
収斂度の高いバルカンおよび中東政策（外交安保より広い）
欧洲近隣諸国政策（東部、地中海の対岸の隣接地域安定化）
北極政策、アフガニスタン政策などのガイドライン
６．日本と EU：相互の認識（１）第二次大戦後、相互に関心の低下
日本における EU の「風評被害」
日本は世界における政治的重みあるいは等身大の EU を正確にとらえているか？
EU 加盟国の EU 代表部はおおむね、その国の外務省で最大規模の在外公館
加盟国の常駐代表は、閣僚級の場合もあるが、外交官の場合は加盟国の代表部で最も重要なポストEU 側の対策としての対日政策広報（EU institute in Japan, EU Studies Institute ４拠点など）ほかに、北米、豪州、NZ, 韓国、台湾

参考：日中共同世論調査（２０１０．６－７）「今後の世界のリーダーを問う」
中国国民の回答： 米（55.3%）、中(49.7)、EU（20.5）、G8(12.6), 日本(11.0)、BRICS(8.3)
日本国民の回答： 米(54.1)、G8(36.4)、中国(24.6)、BRICS(12.2)、日本(10.5)、EU（9.5）（２）EU から見た中国の台頭と、日本に対する関心の推移
日本再発見へ＊発展段階が同じ、グローバルな問題に対する同質的な考え

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７．日 EU 関係の歴史と現状（１）

１９９１．７ 日本国と欧州共同体及びその加盟国との関係に関するヘーグにおける
共同宣言

（２）

２００１．１２ 共通の未来の構築 日・EU 協力のための行動計画（３）

セクター毎の主要な協定（４）

相互承認協定2002.1.1 発効

刑事共助協定2009.12.3 発効

科学技術協力協定

2011.29 発効

宣言外交から具体的協力へ
２０１０．４ 第 19 回日・EU 定期首脳協議共同プレス声明

タジキスタンでの国境管理セミナー（2 回実施）
ソマリア沖海賊対策
アフガニスタンでの警察訓練
EU の PKO への文民派遣計画（災害防止・救難協力：UETA INITIATIVE）双方の市民にわかりやすい協力分野）＊EU は人道支援部門を強化しつつある（５）５月２８日の日 EU 定期首脳協議
Economic Partnership Agreement という案件
８．今後の日 EU 関係
グローバルパワーシフトの状況下で、ルールベースの国際関係（国際社会における法の支配）を維持するパートナー―法の支配に基づく国際社会をめざす“By and large the EU is bound by and seeks to promote a rule-based system to governinternational behaviour. In its dealings with other international actors it prioritises good
governance; social, economic and political reform; trade and uninterrupted access to markets;and respect for human rights and the rule of law. In essence, the EU is seeking to remakeinternational relations in its own image. The logic of this approach is rooted in the belief thatexporting the EU model will make the world safer by bringing prosperity, freedom and social
stability……If, as the result of the rise of several countries to great-power status, the role ofmultilateral institutions and global governance structures diminishes and at the same time
great-power rivalries increase, EU member states can be expected to see their loss ofinfluence magnified. This is because the guiding principles of EU foreign and security policy
are based on effective multilateralism and cooperation rather than confrontation, and on35

rule-based interaction rather than the aggressive assertion of military and economic power. “
B. Giegerich, ed., Europe and Global Security, IISS, 2010, Introduction.
―――――――――――――――――――――
日本外務省 HP
http://www.mofa.go.jp
EU については http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/eu/index.html
駐日 EU 代表部 HP
http://www.deljpn.ec.europa.eu/
欧洲理事会議長 HP
http://www.european-council.europa.eu/the-president.aspx
欧洲対外活動庁 HP
http://eeas.europa.eu/index_en.htm
興味深い文献松本龍『環境外交の舞台裏』日経 BP 社、2011.5 （昨年の名古屋での生物多様性の COP１０
での多数国間外交）兼原信克『戦略外交原論』日本経済新聞出版社、2011.4
外交官志望者への参考文献リスト付
藪中三十二『国家の命運』新潮新書、2010.
神余隆博『多極化時代の日本外交戦略』朝日新書、2010
植田隆子『地域的安全保障の史的研究』山川出版、1989
編著『現代ヨーロッパ国際政治』岩波書店、2003.
.編著『EU スタディーズ １ 対外関係』「第２章 共通外交と対外関係」「第９章 日本＝EU 政
治・安全保障関係」、勁草書房、2007 年、５５－７７、２１７－２２４ページ所収。
.「欧州連合（EU）の大量破壊兵器（WMD）不拡散政策」（１）（２）（３）『軍縮問題資料』349 号、351 号、352 号、2009 年 12 月、2010 年 3 月、4 月）、２４－２７、２８－３３、２８－３５ペー
ジ所収。
「米欧関係の変容と日本―政治安全保障協力の視点から」森井裕一編『地域統合とグローバ
ル秩序』信山社、2010 年、３－２６ページ所収。
「リスボン条約と EU の対外関係（2009 年 12 月―2011 年 1 月）」『日本 EU 学会年報』31 号、
2011 年６月刊行、印刷中
放送大学で放映した『EU 論』のテキストは改訂中で本年９月に信山社より刊行予定。

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EUROPEAN COUNCIL
THE PRESIDENT

Brussels, 4 March 2011
PCE 059/11

Herman VAN ROMPUY
President of the European Council
speech at the Kobe University Brussels European Centre
Let me start by saying a very simple word. A word which is maybe not used so often in politics:
thank you. And let me even try it in Japanese: 

= Dōmo ariGAtō !

Indeed, I should like to thank Kobe University for bestowing this honour upon me. It is a privilege.
And I should also like to thank you, Mr. President, for your kind and generous words.
I do not know for sure whether I deserve the honour. But just in case I do not, I will certainly try,
during the remainder of my mandate as President of the European Council, to make sure that I do
deserve the honour by the time I leave office! (So in that case, you will have made a goodinvestment in the future!)
I do think it is important to energise the relationship between the European Union and Japan. We
should aim to do so at all levels: politically, economically and between our civil societies anduniversities.
As I said during my visit to Japan in April last year, I attach a great importance to our relationship.
Both on the European and on the Japanese side, we maybe tend to underestimate its potential. And
this is why the work which you, as Kobe University, are doing is so important. Your European
Centre in fact is the first ever overseas office of a Japanese university in Brussels, and I should liketo congratulate you on that. With this opening, you create a new hub for our relationship. A newand strong knot combining all the threads that link our two societies.
The political changes in the world -- the rise of China, India and other emerging economies -- affectboth of us. They change the political landscape, our respective relationships with the United States
for instance. However, we can benefit still more than ever from a strong relationship. It remains key
to our prosperity.
The summit between Japan and the EU, which was held in Tokyo in April of last year, was for me
one of the most interesting international meetings of 2010. And not only because it was aninspiration for my haikus!

P R E S S
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e-mail: press.president@consilium.europa.eu
internet: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/

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It was a privilege to meet the Emperor and the then Prime Minister Hatoyama. Later last year, at the
two G20 meetings, I met Prime Minister Naoto Kan. I am looking forward to receive the Prime
Minister in Brussels later this year for the EU Japan Summit. I hope to be able to bring a strong on
message on behalf of the European Council.

Some of you may be less familiar with the intricacies of the Brussels system. And I know it is noteasy for outsiders to grasp it! However, the same is true for political life in Washington or Tokyo.
Complexity is a feature of almost any system of government. … Except for dictatorships! One
could see the European Council of the 27 Heads of State or Government as the Union's strategy
body.
This distinguishes our work from what the Commission, the Parliament and the Council are doing ata daily basis: turning legislative proposals into rules for our 500 million citizens and our millions ofcompanies.
The work of the European Council, of a more general and political nature, is about determining thedirection, about setting the course. Where do we go? And by now I can tell you from experience: toget 27 Heads of State or Government in the same direction, is no easy task!
We succeed nevertheless. All 27 share the conviction that we belong together and have to work
together. It is as true in economic matters as it is in dealing with the recent events in the rest of the
Arab world. And it is also true for the way we see our relationship with Japan.

I just said that we can strengthen our relationship:• in political terms;• in economic terms;• and in terms of the contacts between our societies.
Let me say a brief word on each of these three subjects in turn.
First on the front of politics proper. We have a lot in common, as I said. Japan is a peace loving
country. You have never used force since 1945. You are a force of stability in a region where oldstyle power games reappear.
Both the European Union and Japan aspire to play a stronger role on the international scene. Yet
our cooperation on political issues falls well short of what it should be. We could do more together,like we already do for police training in Afghanistan, or in fighting piracy off the Somali coast.
Think of working together on counterterrorism or on non-proliferation.
Another such issue is disaster relief. In Europe we have noticed with interest the recent actions
taken by Japan in this respect. For instance after the earthquake in Haiti and the floods in Pakistan,both during 2010. That's why one may appreciate the Japanese proposal of a Japan-EU cooperationin the field of disaster relief, the so-called "Ueta-initiative", which was tabled last month.

82The second point, how to intensify our economic relationship? Even in the changing world of today,and even if we energise our political bonds, trade -- pure trade -- will remain the backbone of ourrelationship. An obvious way to intensify the trade between our two blocks would be a Free Trade
Agreement.
The European Union is aware of Japan's strong interest in embarking on negotiating a Free-Trade
Agreement. I think it would also be of interest for European businesses and consumers.
Today a High Level Group examines the possibilities and that work is still going on. Therefore it isstill too early to say what the EU position will be at the next summit on the possible launch of aFree Trade Agreement process.

However, at this stage I can already make two general points. Such an upgrading of the traderelationship should be comprehensive and balanced. Comprehensive, because we see trade in theterms of our overall political relationship. Balanced, because the kinds of barriers faced by EU andJapanese companies on the respective markets are different in nature. I will not speak in front of
this audience about technical issues such as "non-tariff barriers", but this aspect should be taken into
account. The benefits of abandoning tariffs should not all fall on one side. But we are open to
discuss it. And I am convinced we will reach a good result together.

This brings me to the third point: the contacts between our two societies. Students, business people,
travellers & tourists: the exchange of ideas and perspectives is key. And …, this of course is really
what the Brussels European Centre of Kobe University is about.
I was pleased to learn that in the overseas institutes your University is establishing, this one here is
only the second -- after the centre opened two years ago in Beijing (which indeed, as the capital ofyour neighbour, may deserve a special place…). Therefore I take this Brussels Centre itself as asign of your strong interest in establishing stronger relations with Europe and our Universities.
As you know, the very institution of the "University" was a European invention. Think of Bologna,
Oxford, the Sorbonne, or Leuven: venerable places of learning going all the way back to the Middle
Ages. And yet our universities from all over the continent are very strong global players, at the
cutting-edge of innovation, and oriented toward the future.
A side remark. It is my conviction that our two societies share this unique capacity to link old
experiences and ancient wisdom to the challenges of our own age. In Europe and in Japan, men andwomen do not only live in the present, forgetting about the past and walking blind into the future.
No, we permanently build bridges from the past to the future, to allow us to step forward withconfidence. This gives our societies an inner stability, an ability to deal with the many challenges
and unknown elements which we face in the world of today, while keeping the core of our identity.
People elsewhere may envy us for that.

The European Union welcomes the Japanese efforts of internationalisation of academic life. I was
impressed to discover that your country wants to achieve, by 2020, to have 300.000 Japanese
students abroad, and 300.000 foreign students in Japan. Compared to current numbers, these arecertainly ambitious targets! You will thus no doubt attract more "global talent", people who canthink on their own and bring new perspectives. The effect on society will be considerable.

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Kobe University clearly shows this openness to the world already. By establishing this Brussels
office. But also for instance by your role in the EU Institute Japan "Kansai" -- the institute which it
was my pleasure to visit last year.
We in the European Union have played an important role in the internationalisation of academic
life. First, internally, we developed the famous "Erasmus Program" for student exchanges. Over theyears, it has allowed more than 2 million students to study in another European country. Morerecently, we have developed a global variant: "Erasmus Mundus", which aims at enhancing
international mobility.
However, too few Japanese students have benefitted so far from Erasmus Mundus. There is
untapped potential and I do hope it will be explored by the younger generations.

This is how I see the possibilities for energising all the relationships between the European Union
and Japan. On the political and the economic side, and at the side of our societies and universities.
I am very grateful for the work you, as Kobe University, do in this respect. And that is why I amvery confident that the title of your Conference will prove full of foresight. Today is indeed the firstday of: "A new era of Japan - Europe Academic Cooperation".

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July 17, 2011 at Hitotsubashi Univ.

International relations and the colonial system in medieval Genoa
Prof. Gabriella Airaldi (University of Genova)
Some hundreds of settlements in the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Europe and the Atlanticislands are already testimony to the presence of Genoese in the world in the Middle Ages.
However, they do not cover all examples of the phenomenal expansion which Columbus'
journey isn’t the conclusion of, but the continuation of a phenomenon of particular andextensive contact and migration.
It is a system of relations and international presence which is completely different from that of
Venice, often remembered by analogy, from which it differs in the most part by action and themethods and tools used. In fact, its spatial width is certainly much greater than that of Venice,and it is totally immune from state intervention, which exists in Venice. The expansion of the
Genoese, in fact, develops instead on the basis of strategic action by private or public-private
according to formulas that differ considerably, but complement the operation of a network
designed to ensure maximum operational flexibility.
For the medieval Genoese international relations and settlement systems are inseparable
elements. Note the use of the word "Genoese" and not the word "Genoa". In the last century,
Roberto Lopez, an important medieval historian, was the first to report the importance of this
distinction, which stems from an original story, which you will see, I hope, later in this speech.
In the eleventh century, Genoa, a city that neither then nor in subsequent centuries exceeds a
population of 100,000, undergoes a major political metamorphosis that permanently
transformed the most important Mediterranean port, and European stronghold and enhances
its role as the most "Atlantic" of Italian cities.
Genoa is in the western area of Europe and is one of the vertices of a major nerve center of
the Italian peninsula. Where people and goods arrive and pass through towards the heart ofEurope and where were born, on the existing feudal fabric, the Italian Communes, city-states
geographically located between the Alps and the Tiber.
This system promotes the role of the city. At the center of a territorial arc that at that time waswider and deeper than the current one, with good communication links in every direction,
Genoa sees a concentration of activities and a movement of ethnic groups and cultures fromall over the known world. From that moment, the Genoese, favored by the extreme politicaldivisions of the time, became the protagonists of expansion, which will play a key role in theformation of a new West.
They are aided in their operations by the maintained fidelity to the particular form oforganization of their Commune, but also the interpretation given to the term "city" and urban
culture that derives from it, which they export all over the world. The Genoese see the city
and, more generally, any kind of settlement or contact, direct, indirect, private, public, semipublic as a possible form of investment, which must have not only one form of management
applied but, from time to time, one considered more appropriate, encouraging the planting of
the cultural and social models that they bear. For this reason migration is easy for them,people who live in a rocky and poor country, but have in front of them the sea and the world.
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In their history, the Genoese are in fact more faithful to the formula of "Compagna" from which
the City was born. A group of warriors turned merchants, they come from a higher social
stratum, but not only feudal extraction. Since the end of the eleventh century and for theduration of its history, that is, until 1797 when Napoleon Bonaparte created the Democratic
Republic of Liguria, the Commune of Genoa was governed by large clans, joined by family
alliances, which then spread out in artificial groups with the unique name of " Alberghi” which
are aspects related to modern corporations. The success in creating a powerful, flexible
international network, which is preserved, yet changes and grows over time, demonstrates
the validity of this formula destined to remain unchanged until the contemporary age.
In fact the necessity to change the operational areas, working hard to move the frontiers,
enforces strict rules that ensure greater freedom of action and greater safety of movement.
To this end the Genoese choose to remain loyal to the use of traditional models, by naturesolid and stable. They decide to keep intact even the performance of centrality of thepatriarchal family business, rich in men to send out into the world. It therefore remains inforce the covenant of marriage as a means of founding a pact between the clans. The choiceof the free economy- the market - brings with it a fundamental transformation, where money
becomes a tool for growth and affirmation. This formula assumes a structural nature andaffects the Genoese far and wide, ranging from the Black Sea to the Iberian Peninsula andwill pass into the Americas. This formula will produce a lot of money for the elite of the main
port of the Mediterranean that, with the flexible form of network tightens any kind ofagreement with the owners of hundreds of cells that make up the mosaic of international
power.
For this reason, in the late eleventh and early twelfth-century Genoa, the heart of a decisiveand consistent policy of attention towards the Atlantic spaces and control center of thestrategic points of the Levantine market, creates a network intended to support free circulationof commodities between the East and extreme western part of Europe, giving rise to directpublic rule only where absolutely necessary, preferring instead, as far as possible and in any
way, the constant search of privileges and monopolies.
It is well known that branches of different clans are installed everywhere, naturalizing, taking
other surnames and marrying with local nobility, that the Genoese move their men without
limiting the operation, resulting in neighborhoods and commercial privileges, controlling theroutes from the eastern Mediterranean to the Far West. So they choose to apply systems ofvariable contacts. This behavior, open to alliances that go beyond all physical or ideologicalborders, is the prevailing reason for their success and their broad presence in the world. It
has a very modern essence in political-economic management models and relational andexpansive models, and anticipates the formulas of the Dutch and the British. Fernand
Braudel was right when he called the Genoese capitalism "dramatic" because it forced,
generated by a rough and poor region and the preeminent choice of the market. However, it
became the founding element of a world-economy that lead to globalization.
Without losing contact with the mother city, where they seek to maintain roles in government
in exchange for fierce struggles famous even in their time, family groups along with allies andemployees, whenever they choose in which form to proceed. Genoese and Ligurians can livein special quarters in the West, to obtain landing sites and trading posts in the East or to2
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create personal domains, or, as in the Black Sea, reshaping or molding the city, readjusting
until it becomes "another Genoa". The private dominates public life. They maintain the life ofprivate fleets rather than one public fleet. They invented the "Maona" in anticipation of themore modern "India Company", to which the Genoese entrust the management of areas ofsignificant strategic and economic interest. It is a Maona that guarantees the long duration of
the domain of Chios, with its monopoly of alum, until1566. Private instance gets stronger
over time to the point that, after 1453, when the Turks settled in Constantinople, there’s anorganization of private character born out of the public debt – the bank of San Giorgio increasingly controlled by large families and a constant financier of the city - to manage thestrategic areas considered at risk, such as the Black Sea.
It is important to note that the strategy used by the Genoese to extend their control overneighboring areas is identical to that used internationally. The Genoese are ancient warriors
in an age of feudal models and prefer to describe themselves as such. However, their wars
against the Empire and against the feudal powers are inferior to the matrimonial pacts,
conventions that equally guarantee progressive control of the coast and the Apennines. On
the other hand is their interest in control of strategic points. So the rule of Genoa in the
territory will never be total. In fact very wide areas continue to be in the hands of large feudal
clans Fieschi, Spinola Doria, Grimaldi and later Fregoso and Adorno, however, all are
immersed in the political and economic life of the city. The Commune only prefer the controlof the communication routes and landings. Rarely shall there be forced settlements such as
Portovenere or a foundation like Chiavari. Simultaneously and with similar systems, we moveover the Tyrrhenian islands and the Mediterranean. Even in this case the action always
oscillates between private and public. Corsica is an essential breakwater to the port of Genoa.
During the thirteenth century, after a bitter struggle with Pisa, Genoa arrived to control theentire island and filled it with towers, completing acts of forced population. Also Sardinia ispartly controlled. The family of Doria with the support of the Empire, try to create there a
kingdom controlled by the Genoese. The iron of Elba will also be controlled by them, and in
the Norman period to the modern age have advanced trading posts and hundreds of estates
in southern Italy and Sicily.
The private and public records, the chronicles of Byzantine, Arabs and Europeans recount of
Genoese presence in all the Syrian Palestinian territories that the Europeans acquired in thedecade of the First Crusade, from the taking of Antioch in 1098 to Tripoli in Syria, the current
Lebanon (1109). Thirty houses, a church, a warehouse, a landing, an oven, a bathroom andfarmhouses in the countryside form the settlement pattern in this area to Arsuf, Cesarea, Tyre,
Beirut, Acre, but there is also the dominion of Byblos-Jbeil obtained by the hero of theconquest of Jerusalem and Cesarea, Guglielmo Embriaco for a branch of his family. So
already this first phase of overseas expansion has a very different model in an area that the
Genoese will soon monopolize in spite of Pisans and Venetians.
In these areas their action lasts as long as the European presence, that is, until the fall of
Acre in 1291. However then they have already spread their network to Cyprus andConstantinople, where the Tower of Galata still dominates the centre of the district of Pera,
where from 1261 one of their “podestà” governs. In that year, in alliance with the dynasty ofthe exiled Greek Paleologi, they demolished the Latin-Venitian Empire which lasted from1204 and they monopolize the Black Sea, an important strategic area for its access routes to
the Orient, and where they will be present for more than two centuries. . Thanks to the skill of3
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one of the most important figures in their history, Benedetto Zaccaria, they put the hands onthe mastic of Chios and on the alum of Focea and arrive to Flanders.
In the Black Sea, Amastri, Sinope, Samsun, Savastopoli, Vicina, Kilia, Licostomo, Tana
Maurocastro Vosporo Balaclava, Soldaia, Matrega, and especially the main center of Kaffa in
the Crimea, are perfectly organized on the model from Genoa with consulates, magistrates,
offices and statutes. In the fifteenth century it is really interesting to compare Pera, Kaffa andChios ( run by the Maona) and also see the different nuances of urban models and urban
development.
Unlike the Venetians, the Genoese always had good relations with the Turks. When
Constantinople fell under Turkish rule, Pera doesn’t sustain too much damage. Only two
years before the sultan had renewed agreements with Perot, the Maonesi of Chios andGattilusio of Lesvos. The Genoese continue to enjoy liberty, property and free tradethroughout the Turkish Empire albeit now with the payment of duties. As confirmed by thecontracts drawn up locally by Genoese notaries, life continues and there is a substantial
movement of ships. Members of large families are often present in Pera, where Francis
Draper, adviser to Muhammad II, and his son Thomas Spinola have a house. Caffa will fall in
1475, but Chios, albeit constrained by the Sublime Porte, will stand until 1566, guaranteeing
the Genoese trade with the great Ottoman Empire. In the early fourteenth century there aremany Genoese in Kiev, Poland, Hungary and Georgia. They are “podestà” and contractorsof salt mines. Simone Doria is admiral of the Hungarian crown. The Genoese trade in the
Azov and Caspian Seas. Genoese and Ligurians circulate throughout the African coast, andparticularly in Egypt but also in Tunisia, Ceuta and Atlantic Morocco.
Between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when Islamic Middle East instability is
counterbalanced by the great, peaceful Mongol empire which will last about a century, on thevarious routes of the Silk Road many Genoese depart from the Black Sea to the Middle and
Far East, to its wealth, its spices and its gems. They have a consulate in Tabriz in Persia.
The Genoese Pope Innocent IV Fieschi, ushering in a wider policy of the Roman Church, sent
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine to his first post in the East. China is a magnet for an expanding
European market. Merchants, diplomats and missionaries followed John Montecorvino, thefirst bishop in Beijing, there will be after him, Andrew of Perugia, William of Rubrouk, Odoricoda Pordenone, and the most famous of all, the Venetian Marco Polo. The Genoese Illioni will
leave their beautiful tombs. The manual of the Florentine merchant Francesco di Balduccio
Pegolotti recalls that anything to do with trading with China you follow the rules of the
Genoese and Giovanni Boccaccio in his famous "Decameron" defines them as the leading
experts in things Chinese.
The historiography has often insisted that the fall of Acre and the end of peace in Mongolia
push for a projection to the European West. But this is not true. For some time the attention of
the Genovese clan has been magnetized in that direction.
In fact, between 1110 and 1112, the Genoese are already working on the Atlantic coast of
Galicia, where they build ships for the bishop of Compostela against the raids of the Saracens
and Normans. Shortly after they are found in Safi, Morocco on the Atlantic coast, where theAfrican caravans terminate and where the gold arrives. A series of treaties and deeds testify
as early as the twelfth century, to relations with all Muslim rulers in the area.
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They have trading posts with scribes who take note also in arabic of the trade in the Maghreb
and their neighborhoods in Seville and Lisbon. In this age when war seems to be thebackbone of the history of the eastern Mediterranean, the admired and friendly words of theArabs demonstrate the kindness with which Islam in the Western Mediterranean regard thesewarrior-merchants. Moreover, the Genoese know that the western Mediterranean is theirstrong point. Goods arrive here from the great Islamic empire, and there is the strait that isthe door to the Atlantic.
From the twelfth century the Genoese were also present in market areas on the coast of
Provence, for example in Saint-Gilles, and were well connected to local powers against thepossible emergence of competing Communes similar to their neighbors Savona andVentimiglia. In 1127 they sign favorable trade agreements with the Count of Barcelona. In
the mid-forties they prefer to ignore the second overseas Crusade and devote themselves toan operation in Hispanic Almeria and Tortosa, where, in 1146-47, while failing to establish asystem similar to the Middle East, they obtained, however, much plunder. Then there was thebirth of the system of ‘ Compere’, where members or clans, that finance the ordinary andextraordinary enterprises of the city, pay interest with " Compere" - ie the transfer of revenue
from indirect taxes -of which there are shares. In time it will create the impressive system that,in 1407, with its consolidation led to the creation of the Bank of San Giorgio, the guarantee ofsurvival of the town, the preferred place of investment by the Genoese and more or lessimportant Ligurians, destined for centuries to be Europe’s first safe.
In the operating system of the Genoese close links with the Burgundian axis, Norman,
Occitan, Hispanic and French were not at odds with the privileged trading posts on the
Moroccan coast from Ceuta to Safi and Saleh and on the Maghreb, from Bugia, Tunis, Oran,
Tripoli, Libya to Egypt. The Genoese were already present in Lisbon, Cadiz, Seville,
Andalusia and the Algarve in the Islamic age, the concessions of the Emir in Valencia, in
Denia and Majorca, the construction of a monopoly over trade and policy will remain constantfor more than half of the thirteenth century, when Pisa falls and grow to the more powerful
Crown of Aragon and the no less dangerous Crown of Anjou.
The border in the East is unstable, it expands or recedes only in relation to issues ofconfrontation and conflict with Islam. The West is a different matter. The boundaries of theworld can advance there and not to the East, where they acquire and lose areas of trade andlife.
The future lies in the west. Also the Church of Rome, accompanied by new instances of
crusades and missions on this long journey. They are Ligurian, the popes present for thehighlights of this expansive process. After Innocent IV, who moved his men to the East andMorocco, in the fifteenth century there is Nicholas V, Sixtus IV, Innocent VIII, Julius II, watch
these Genoese carefully, who first with the Portuguese and then with the Castilians, beat therelentless waves of the Atlantic before sailing to the New World.
Between the thirteenth and fourteenth century, when the balance of payments is in favor of
the West and in 1251 a return to the gold coin minting in Genoa and Florence, the fall of Acreand the end of Mongol peace push in favor of a projection to the European West.
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In May 1291 the brothers Ugolino and Vadin Vivaldi, accompanied by Franciscan friars, leaveon the galleons, " Allegranza" and " Sant’Antonio", armed by Tedisio Doria, heading for Indianparts. At that time, Vivaldi, like many other important families of Genoa, had already been astable presence in Lisbon. Evidently, even for his contemporaries the company has great
importance even the official chronicle of Genoa mentions it. But, at the height of the CanaryIslands the shipment is swallowed up into nothing and isn’t heard of again (although it seems
that just a few years later Sorleone Doria met a descendant of Vivaldi at the mouth of theGambia).
The story of Vivaldi is an important testimony of the policy of expansion in the Atlantic in
which the admirals and Genoese warrior-merchants, along with the Portuguese are alreadyprotagonists. It shows, at the end of the thirteenth century, Benedetto Zaccaria, who,balancing his time between East and West, brings between 1277 and 1278 the Mediterranean
ships which sailed to Flanders and the North. Even more is proved by the act of 1317 withwhich Dom Dinis of Portugal chooses Genoese Manuel Pessagno as the first Admiral of thePortuguese Crown. All this happens while in Tunis, in front of the notary Pietro Battifoglio,
stretches an intense sequence of business, Ceuta struggles between the Genoese andJewish religious themes and the Iberian Peninsula is already teeming with Genoese andLigurians. The name Lanzarotto Malocello, is famous. This descendant of an ancient lineage,
master of lands in Liguria and ships and a writer, between 1338 and 1339, discovered or
rediscovered the Canaries, as illustrated by the Genoese flag drawn on the maps of time and the name of the island - Lanzarote. Giovanni Boccaccio, the son of a merchant, wrote asmall work on the trip that the Ligurian Nicolò da Recco performed with the Florentine
Tegghia of Corbizzi to the Canary Islands in 1341. The story of "discoveries" will continue inthe fifteenth century.
A century later in a letter written to his investors, December 12 1455, Antoniotto Usodimaredescribes his journey to the mouth of the Gambia. Antoniotto goes in search of African gold,
also searching, on behalf of the powerful Centurion bank is Antonio Malfante. With Malfante
is a letter, sent to a relative Giangiacomo Maineri on his journey to the Saharan oasis of Tuatin 1447, an area the Genoese already had certain knowledge of in the thirteenth century.
A merchant of sugar and slaves, Antonio da Noli, member of a family of cartographers, wholeft Genoa in 1461, along with a brother and a nephew, he became the Governor of Cape
Verde in the Atlantic archipelago, which he in part discovered. He died there in 1497, leaving
a female heir, after fluctuating between the Portuguese and Castilian crowns, in an interesting
analogy of behavior with Columbus, Vespucci and the two Cabots. Between 1480 and 1492,
Francis de Riberol (Rivarola), who invests money in the first Colombo voyage with other
Genoese, finances, along with Galician Alonso de Lugo, the Castilian conquest of the CanaryIslands, obtaining land later dedicated to the cultivation of sugarcane and the monopoly of“oricello” (purple dye). His brother Cosma traded a lot in sugar and slaves from Cadiz,
between the Canaries and Spain. Also in Madeira, where the governor, the conqueror of
Machico, Tristao Vaz of Teixeira, had a Genoese son-in-law, everything relating to sugar andits manufacture is in the hands of some of the main families of Genoa. Genoese families also
have the monopoly of Portuguese cork and later Tabarchini coral. All names that we find in
America. The Savonese Michele de Cuneo wrote to his friend Gerolamo Aimari of the returnfrom the second trip made together with their other friend, Columbus, a letter that looks like alittle manual for the merchants. Many of them Ligurians who go with Columbus.
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The fall of Constantinople in 1453 (the Genoese held Kaffa on the Black Sea until 1475 andChios until 1566) strengthens the incentive to seek new ways to reach the rich land of theEast and a commitment to push back the frontier further to the extreme West Europe.
Because of this they continue to consolidate the collaborative process between princes andmerchants that has been taking place since the eleventh century. And once again the
Genoese are the only ones able to offer capital, ships and fit men, technicians able to enter inevery phase of operations.
Moreover in the Middle Ages and early modern ages the Genovese usually supplied ships
and men to many European crowns. The Genoese and Ligurian Admirals constitute achapter in the maritime world of the past. It’s a fact that these Genoese admirals, from
Benedetto Zaccaria to Andrea Doria, are excellent strategists used to the fighting between
the islands of the Tyrrhenian. In the thirteenth century, among the Genoese admirals
available to Castille, as well as an uncertain Ramon Bonifaz, who built the arsenal of Sevilleand Ugo Vento, who in 1264, built four ships in Portovenere for the Crown, there is Zaccaria
and later Egidio Boccanegra. Zaccaria has already acted as maritime control in the eastern
Mediterranean for the Byzantines, won the battle of Meloria (1284) and later become an
admiral for the French Crown for which he will study the first proposed continental blockade ofEngland.
The Emperor Frederick II wants Genoese admirals and collaborators, among them, as well as
Guglielmo Grasso, Guglielmo Porco there is also the famous Enrico of Volta, Count of Malta,sung by the troubadours as the "star of the Genoese" and there are Nicolino Spinola andAnsaldo de Mari. Saint Louis IX, King of France, goes on a crusade with two Genoese
admirals, Giacomo da Levanto e Ugo Lercari. In addition to Benedetto Zaccariat also Ranieri
Grimaldi and Aitone Doria are admirals of the French crown. Simone Doria is admiral of the
Hungarian Crown. The "dynasty" of the Doria family includes many admirals among its ranks such as Corrado who fought at Meloria, like Lamba, who defeated the Venetians in Curzola(Korčula). And then, of course, there is Columbus.
Western Europe is full of Genoese. Guglielmo Boccanegra built the port of Aigues Mortes forLouis IX of France. In 1295 Philip IV of France called upon the Genoese to prepare an
arsenal, which is the Clos de Galées of Rouen. In Bruges, the Genoese have a strong
presence, a lodge with the emblem of St. George, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, whilesome families "old" and "new" have their neighborhoods at their disposal. All would then be
merged into Antwerp demonstrating the depth and constancy of a long-term relationship. The
Genoese presence in Southampton and London dates back to at least 1303.
In the Iberian peninsula and in particular in the hispanic area, between the Mediterranean
people Genoese there is a unique example of commitment and continuity and duration of theirpresence. Certainly not lacking, especially in the age of Columbus, are Florentine , Milaneseand Piacenza businessmen and Florentine and Venetian ships sailing in Atlantic waters to thenorth of Europe. But, as has already happened in Portugal, the Genoese were the only ones
to provide a rich range of skills and not only deal in goods or money. The partnership between
the Genoese and Spanish is an important issue for the complexity and depth of a relationshipof long duration and is one of the great themes of international history.

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Divided into various kingdoms, always engaged in skirmishes with Islam and in their internalwars, the Spanish area generally presents itself as an ideal area of investment for the
Genoese, who have been in Andalucia since the Islamic age and soon go into competition
with the Jews ( the traditional lenders to the Castilian Crown) and nor are specialists in"asientos", and loans of capital and ships that distinguish them from contemporary merchants.
During the twelfth century within the Spanish area they have created different political andeconomic areas. The Andalucian Islamic enclave centred only on Granada, from the middleof the thirteenth century, kept alive by Malaga and the excellent links through the area from
Morocco and the Maghreb. In the rest of the territory, in addition to Navarre, there are twodominant Spanish crowns destined to have a dominant role at an international level: theCrown of Castile and Leon, intent on reconquering the interior areas and the Crown of
Aragon, where the markets and ports of Barcelona and Valencia are growing, and istherefore destined to clash with Genoa.
While relentlessly continuing to trade with Andalusia, the Genoese, however, even privately,
are an active part of the "colonization", which, in the mid-thirteenth century leads the Castilian
monarchy to control some cornerstones of al-Andalus from Córdoba and Seville to Cadiz. And
here they engineer their presence receiving, as evidenced by the "Book of Privileges"
obtained by the Crown after the conquest of Seville in 1251, such treatment of a privileged"nation" even when other merchants – from Florence, Piacenza and Milan - present
themselves in the same scene.
The Castilian testimony, along with the rich documentation of Genoa, confirms the strength ofrelationships based on a broad-spectrum collaboration: they lend money and manage assets,
they contract out tax services, manage private and public accounting, enter into a game ofcivil and religious positions when some member of the family decides to leave Genoa forever.
Seville is full of Genoese, known or unknown, two centuries before it became the "gateway to
the Indies" when as many as 21 of its 28 " alberghi " will be represented by them. The samegoes for Cordoba, Cadiz, Jerez de la Frontera and other, more or less important, places.
They strengthen like this - but it is just one example - successful relationships with the greatlords of Andalusia, the Medinaceli and Medina Sidonia, who control well-populated land,
whiting and tuna nets, production of olive oil and shipping, and look carefully at the Atlantic
experiments, large and small trade, transactions with greater or lesser financial commitment,
coming and going of sailors and artisans, who often stop in that area full of opportunities. The
Genoese "nation" in Seville, with its own neighborhood, its "Book of Privileges" and its
traditions, has a long history. The Genoese Christopher Columbus set sail from these areas.
Christopher Columbus, the man who will take the Genoese model outside Europe.

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Credit Exchange
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To carry out an educational programme under Article 3 of the
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1. Total of 53 students registered in 12 courses based on theagreement. (See attached documents)
2. All universities are selecting the Europe Research Course
offered for exchange of credit.

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Open Lecture “EU and Japan in the Changing World”
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To promote understanding between EU and Japan

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Held by Social Science Research Institute, ICU

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14:00-15:00 on Tuesday, 31 May, 2011

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Takako UEDA, Professor of ICU

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International Conference Room, Dialogue House, ICU

Financial resources:

ICU’s budget

Results:

Approximately 40 attendants including citizens and students of
ICU

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We would like to continue to organize Special Seminars topromote understanding the History and the current situation ofEurope and to acquire a wider range of basic knowledge about
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Lecture and Discussion: Thinking about Evil
Jointly held by Socrates Café and EUIJ Tokyo Consortium
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Purpose of the Activity:

To promote Understanding between EU and Japan

Description/Program:

Sophocles' tragedy, Antigone, has been the centre of philosophical andtheological discussions in the scholarly tradition of modern Europe
concerning, for example, the confrontation between the laws in humanworld and the unwritten divine law, and the importance of love within
this confrontation. In this lecture, the main focus is placed on a songby the chorus, so-called 'Ode on Humans'. This ode makes a clear
contrast between the civilized society and the divine world on the one
hand, and between the human civilization and the world of nature on
the other hand, praising the cultural achievements of humans
triumphantly, while suggesting the fundamental negative aspects ofhuman civilization. This lecture and discussion may be a chance toreflect upon the warnings against human civilization, tracing
interpretations of this work by representative European thinkers
including Hegel and Heidegger.

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14:00-15:00 on Tuesday, 31 May, 2011

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Yoshinori SANO, Professor of ICU

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University Hall (Honkan) Room 215, ICU

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Approximately 60 attendants including EUSI and EUIJ
Tokyo consortium students attended and had a fruitfulexchange of views on this theme.

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We would like to continue to organize Special Seminars topromote understanding the History and the current
situation of Europe and to acquire a wider range of basic
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2
0
5
5
10
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2
0
3
1
4
Hitotsubashi EU Law＊
Politics and International Relations in Europe*
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4
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TUFS
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Rethinking Europe
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Environmental Problems in the EU
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3
Tsuda
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2
8
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Social Security in the European Union
3
1
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4
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5
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6
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East European Studies
2
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北欧とＥＵ
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Northern
Europe
and
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Sophocles’ tragedy, Antigone, has been the centre of philosophical and theologicaldiscussions in the scholarly tradition of modern Europe concerning, for example, theconfrontation between the laws in human world and the unwritten divine law, and theimportance of love within this confrontation. In this lecture, the main focus isplaced on a song by the chorus, so-called ‘Ode on Humans’. This ode makes a clear
contrast between the human civilization and the divine world on the one hand, andbetween the human civilization and the world of nature on the other hand, praising
the cultural achievements of humans triumphantly, while suggesting the fundamental
negative aspects of human civilization. This lecture and discussion may be a chance
to reflect upon the warnings against human civilization, tracing interpretations of
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EUSI/EUIJ Public Lecture" Environmental Issues and Public Campaign in Europe"
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Session 1" French nuclear policy and anti-nuclear movement "Toshiki MASHIMO , Senior Research Fellow at People's
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Professor Shuji KITAMI, Professor Ryosuke AMIYA-Nakada
Professor Takamoto SUGISAKI

Place of the Activity:

Nakajima Memorial Hall, 1st floor of Bldg. No. 7
Kodaira Campus, Tsuda College

Financial resources:

EUSI

Results:

21 students, Tsuda alumnae and citizens participated inthis lecture The audience was quite interested incomparative studies on the Environmental problem andatomic power usage between in France and Germany.

Future perspectives:

A series of the lectures is beneficial as public relation
activities for EUSI/EUIJ and Tsuda College to enhance
Tsuda’s academic contribution to the public.

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EUSI/EUIJ TSUDA Public Lecture"Environmental Issues and Public Campaign in Europe"
Session 1"French nuclear policy and anti-nuclear movement"
Toshiki MASHIMO

Senior Research Fellow at People's Research Institute on Energy andEnvironment, Member of Steering Committee, Consumers Union ofJapan
Since 1978, during his student days at the University of Tokyo, when heco-founded People's Research Institute on Energy and Environment (PRIEE),
an independent non-profit organism, he has conducted studies and publishedreports on energy demand-supply scheme without nuclear power and climatechange.
From 2001 to 2007, he participated in Codex ad hoc Task Force on Food Derived from Modern
Biotechnology as one of the representatives of Consumers International, making inputs to makethe international standards as consumer-protective as possible.
From 2009 to 2010, he also followed, and made inputs to, the meetings of the Group of the
Friends of the Co-chairs on Liability and Redress in the Context of the Cartagena Protocol on
Biosafety, whose draft was adopted as Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on
Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol at the 5th Meeting of the Parties (COP-MOP5)of the Protocol held in Nagoya in 2010.

Session 2"Growing Presence of the German Greens and its
Social Background"
Ryosuke AMIYA-Nakada
Professor, Department of International and Cultural Studies, Tsuda
College

Ryosuke Amiya-Nakada is Professor of Comparative Politics at Meiji Gakuin
University. After graduate study at the Graduate School of Law and Politics of
the University of Tokyo, he served as a research associate at the University ofTokyo. Then he taught at the Kobe University from 1996 to 2006 and the Meiji
Gakuin University from 2006 to March, 2011 before moving to Tsuda College.
His recent research interest centered on the development and characteristics of EU social policy.
He has been also conducting a JSPS-funded research project on the transformation of European
party politics.

Date:
Sunday, 26th June 2011
Time: 13:00-16:30
Venue: Nakajima Memorial Hall, 1st floor of Bldg. No. 7
Kodaira Campus, Tsuda College………………………………………………………………………………………
Contact: EUSI TSUDA OfficeE-mail: eusi@tsuda.ac.jp
Tel/Fax: 042-342-5134
http://www2.tsuda.ac.jp/eusi/

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