CRS Seminar SeriesBook Launch: EU-Japan Partnership in the Shadow of China
Date:
Time:Venue:

Wednesday, September 12, 2018
15:00-16:30
Conference room, Center for Rule-making Strategies

Language:

English(5th Floor, Shinagawa Intercity Front, 2-14-14 Kōnan, Minato-ku)

CRS cordially invites you to attend a book launch of The EU–Japan Partnership inthe Shadow of China: The Crisis of Liberalism (Routledge, 2018).
Three editors of this book - Axel Berkofsky, Paul Midford, and Marie Söderberg –will build upon their arguments in the book and provide their insights on Japan-EU
cooperation from political, security, and economic perspectives.
Please register at the CRS website or contact Akira Igata (akira.igata@gmail.com)
Agenda
15:00-15:05 Opening Remarks
15:05-15:15 Marie Söderberg
Dr. Söderberg will talk about how the rise of China as well as the crises of liberalism ischanging the political scene on a world wide level and more specifically on the implications
for Japan-EU relations. She will also touch on areas of possible increased cooperation in thefield of development cooperation.
15:15-15:25 Axel Berkofsky
Dr. Berkofsky will speak about the EU-Japan Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) andwhat it could mean for EU-Japan on the ground security cooperation in Asia and elsewhere.
Is the EU-Japan SPA a big breakthrough in terms of bilateral security cooperation or does it
merely institutionalize already existing cooperation in international security?
15:25-15:35 Paul Midford
Dr. Midford’s presentation will focus on Prime Minister Abe's pro-active contribution topeace and values diplomacy as a possible basis for greater EU-Japan security cooperation.
15:35-15:45 Discussion (Akira Igata (CRS))
15:45-16:30 Q&A from the floorSpeakers
Marie Söderberg
Professor / Director, Stockholm School of Economics
Marie, Söderberg, is a Professor and the Director of theEuropean Institute of Japanese Studies at Stockholm School ofEconomics. She has published on Japanese Influences in Asia,
Japan-China and Japan- North Korea as well as Japan-South
Korea relations. Marie Söderberg is the senior editor of theEuropean Institute of Japanese Studies, East Asian Economics
and Business Studies series published by Routledge in London
and New York. She is also the chairperson of the European
Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN).
A central focus of her research is Japanese development
cooperation policy as well as Japan-Europe relations.
Axel Berkofsky
Professor, University of Pavia, Italy
Axel Berkofsky is Professor at the University of Pavia, Italy andSenior Associate Research Fellow at the Milan-based Istituto
per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI). Axel Berkofsky isalso Executive Committee Board Member at the Stockholmbased European Japan Advanced ResearchNetwork (EJARN)
and Research Affiliate at the European Institute of JapaneseStudies at the Stockholm School of Economics.
His research interests are amongst others Japanese andChinese foreign and security policies, Chinese history, Asian
security and EU-Asia relations.
Paul Midford
Professor / Director, Norwegian University for Science and Technology
Paul Midford is Professor, and Director of the Japan Program, atthe Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU) inTrondheim. Midford received his PhD. in Political Science from
Columbia University in 2001. Midford is the author ofRethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security: From Pacifism
to Realism? (Stanford University Press, 2011), and the coauthor of The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force: Search forLegitimacy (Palgrave, 2017). He is currently completing a bookmanuscript entitled Overcoming Security Isolationism: Japan’s
Promotion of East Asian Security Multilateralism.
His research interests include Japanese foreign and defense
policies, the impact of public opinion on policy, renewableenergy and energy security, and East Asian security andmultilateralism.

Map / Direction

Kōnan exit

Walk toward the Kōnan exit of Shinagawa Station.
Once you’re there, you will see two tall building in front of you on the right.
The left building (circled below) is the “Intercity Front” building.
(The building to the right is the “Intercity” and NOT the “Intercity Front” building.)
Please walk down the steps next to Kinko’s to enter the building, and then take theelevator to the 5th floor.

Contact information
Akira Igata
Phone: +81-80-7888-2435
Email: akira.igata@gmail.com