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CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan in 21st Century Asia: National Security Space Trajectories

Saadia Pekkanen, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
Thursday, February 2, 2017
12:10-1:30 PM
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building Map
In the past decade, Japan has emerged as one of the world’s most prominent military space powers around. With the inescapable ambiguity of dual-use, Japan has acquired its impressive capabilities in full view of a pacifist public and under constitutional constraints. Today its national security space paradigm is openly and officially sanctioned by the country’s legal and policy orientation. However, these realities are not well understood by Japan’s allies or rivals, which limits our appreciation about what Japan can do in its national security interests both in the region and beyond.

Saadia M. Pekkanen is founding Director of the Ph.D. Program, and the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Additionally, she is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Law. Her education includes Master’s degrees from Columbia University and Yale Law School, and a doctorate from Harvard University in political science. She works on the international relations of Japan and Asia, with a special research interest in outer space security, policy, and governance. Among her books are In Defense of Japan: From the Market to the Military in Space Policy (Stanford, 2010); The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia (Oxford, 2014); and Asian Designs: Governance in the Contemporary World Order (Cornell, 2016). She serves as Co-Chair of the U.S. Japan Space Forum, directs the Space Security Initiative at the University of Washington, and is a contributor for Forbes.

Cosponsored by the Consulate General of Japan in Detroit.

This lecture will be followed by a mini-reception. Both are free and open to the public.
Building: School of Social Work Building
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Japanese Studies, Politics
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Center for Japanese Studies, International Institute, Asian Languages and Cultures