The security and foreign policy of the Ishiba administration with Professor Axel Berkofsky, Professor Hatakeyama Kyoko and Professor Takenaka Harukata

Robert Ward hosts Axel Berkofsky, Associate Professor at the University of Pavia, Professor Hatakeyama Kyoko, Professor of International Relations at University of Niigata Prefecture, and Professor Takenaka Harukata, Professor of Political Science at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.

Robert, Axel, Kyoko and Harukata discuss:

· Review of the Kishida administration’s security and foreign policy

· The Ishiba administration’s foreign policy amid intensifying US-China competition

· The Ishiba administration’s defence policy in Japan’s deteriorating security environment

· The Ishiba administration’s economic security and domestic economic policies

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Date recorded: 08 October 2024

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