The DPJ's New (but failing) Grand Security Strategy: Implications for the U.S.-Japan alliance, Sino-Japanese ties, and East Asian regionalism

Harvard University's Christopher Hughes will speak at USC.

Christopher Hughes
 
Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies
Harvard University
 
Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
University of Warwick, UK
 
The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) administration came to power in September 2009 promising new directions in Japanese foreign and security policy. The DPJ thus far has been heavily criticized for the opacity of its foreign policy, and appears to have precipitated a mini-crisis in U.S.-Japan relations, especially over U.S. base facilities. This talk dissects the DPJ's policy asking what is new in its strategic thinking, how the DPJ has thus far sought to chart a new course in ties with the U.S. and China and its impact on East Asian regionalism, but also what are the international and domestic obstacles these policies are already encountering.
 
Chair: Saori Katada, Associate Professor of International Relations, USC
 
For more information, please contact the USC Center for International Studies at lascis@usc.edu or 213-740-0800.
 
Sponsored by: USC East Asian Studies Center, USC U.S.-China Institute, USC School of International Relations, USC Center for International Studies, and USC Korean Studies Institute