Japan’s maritime security policy in the Indo-Pacific with Professor Alessio Patalano, Veerle Nouwens and Nick Childs
04/16/24 • 56 min
Robert Ward hosts Alessio Patalano, Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, Veerle Nouwens, the Executive Director of IISS-Asia, and Nick Childs, the IISS Senior Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security.
Robert, Alessio, Veerle, and Nick discuss Japan’s maritime security policy in the Indo-Pacific.
Topics discussed include:
- Japan’s positioning of maritime security policy in relation to other domains;
- China’s perspective on Japan’s growing maritime capabilities;
- Japan’s strategic navigation between different layers of partnerships;
- The impact of Trump’s possible re-election on Japan’s maritime security policy.
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Date recorded: 04 April 2024
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Robert Ward hosts Alessio Patalano, Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, Veerle Nouwens, the Executive Director of IISS-Asia, and Nick Childs, the IISS Senior Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security.
Robert, Alessio, Veerle, and Nick discuss Japan’s maritime security policy in the Indo-Pacific.
Topics discussed include:
- Japan’s positioning of maritime security policy in relation to other domains;
- China’s perspective on Japan’s growing maritime capabilities;
- Japan’s strategic navigation between different layers of partnerships;
- The impact of Trump’s possible re-election on Japan’s maritime security policy.
We hope you enjoy the episode and please follow, rate, and subscribe to Japan Memo on your podcast platform of choice. If you have any comments or questions, please contact us at [email protected].
Date recorded: 04 April 2024
Japan Memo is recorded and produced at the IISS in London.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Japan and the Russia-Ukraine War with Professor Higashino Atsuko, Professor James D.J. Brown and Dr Nigel Gould-Davies
In the second episode of Japan Memo season 4, Robert Ward hosts Higashino Atsuko, a Professor at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, James Brown, a Professor of political science at Temple University, Japan campus, and Dr Nigel Gould-Davies, the IISS Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia. Robert, Atsuko, James and Nigel discuss Japan and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Topics discussed include:
- Japan’s response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine over the past two years;
- Japan's possible military aid to Ukraine amid growing aid fatigue among Western allies;
- Japan’s unflagging support for post-war rebuilding to Ukraine in the wake of the bilateral reconstruction conference in February 2024;
- Japan’s defence and energy policy amid rising security and geopolitical tensions with Russia
The following books are recommended by our guests to gain a clearer picture of the topics discussed:
- Kanji Akagi, Kokusaianzenhoshou ga wakeru gaidobuku, (Japan Association for International Security, 2024), 288 pp.
- Mazower Mark, Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century, (Penguin Group, 1999), 512 pp.
- Muminov Sherzod, Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan, (Harvard University Press, 2022), 384 pp.
- Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon, (KADOKAWA, 1950)
We hope you enjoy the episode and please follow, rate, and subscribe to Japan Memo on the podcast platform of your choice. If you have any comments or questions, please contact us at [email protected].
Date of Recording: 1 March 2024
Japan Memo is recorded and produced at the IISS in London.
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Next Episode
Japan and North Korea with Professor Chris Hughes, Dr Naoko Aoki and Joseph Dempsey
Robert Ward hosts Chris Hughes, Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies at the University of Warwick, Dr Naoko Aoki , Associate Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, and Joseph Dempsey, Research Associate for Defence and Military Analysis at the IISS.
Robert, Chris, Naoko and Joseph discuss Japan and North Korea:
- Japan’s diplomatic strategy towards North Korea
- North Korea’s strategy for its advancing missile and nuclear capabilities
- The development of Japan’s counterstrike capabilities and the challenges they face
- Implications for Japan of the strategic cooperation between North Korea, China and Russia
We hope you enjoy the episode and please follow, rate, and subscribe to Japan Memo on your podcast platform of choice. If you have any comments or questions, please contact us at [email protected] or visit our website The International Institute for Strategic Studies (iiss.org)
Date recorded: 26 April 2024
Japan Memo is recorded and produced at the IISS in London.
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