Social Sciences
Mike Mochizuki in Australia
On the Rocks
Japan-China Tensions
and the East China Sea
with
Professor Mike Mochizuki
George Washington University
31 May 2013
4:30-5:30pm
Japan Institute
Australian National University
Lecture theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (Bldg #130)
corner of Liversidge Street and Garran Road, ANU
Why are Japan and China now locked in an intractable conflict regarding the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands? Professor Mike Mochizuki will examine the historical, economic, military, territorial and international legal dimensions of this dispute. After considering power transition and nationalism as possible explanations, he will explain the recent deterioration of Japan-China relations by analysing the interactive dynamics between the two countries and the role of domestic politics. Finally, he will consider possible ways to mitigate the conflict.
Professor Mochizuki holds the Japan-U.S. Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. Dr. Mochizuki was director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies from 2001 to 2005. He co-directs the "Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific" research and policy project of the Sigur Center. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was also Co-Director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Policy at RAND and has taught at the University of Southern California and Yale University. He is a board member of Asia Policy Point.
You can preview this talk by listening to an interview Professor Mochizuki gave to Radio Australia on May 27, 2013.
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