IJS Lecture/Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture: Richard Samuels, "Japan’s Grand Strategy and the US-Japan Alliance"

February 17, 2017

2:30PM - 4:00PM

Mason Hall Rotunda (250 W Woodruff Ave)

Add to Calendar 2017-02-17 15:30:00 2017-02-17 17:00:00 IJS Lecture/Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture: Richard Samuels, "Japan’s Grand Strategy and the US-Japan Alliance" The Institute for Japanese Studies presents the Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture with:Richard J. SamuelsFord International Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for International StudiesMassachusetts institute of Technology"Japan’s Grand Strategy and the US-Japan Alliance"Lecture: 2:30 - 4:00 pmReception: 4:00-5:00 pmFlyer: ForthcomingAbstract: For the past 70 years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan’s security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs, China’s rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded strategic review in Tokyo just as they have in Washington. What is the next step for Japan’s security policy? Will confluence with U.S. interests-- and the alliance-- survive intact? Will it be transformed? Or will Japan become more autonomous? Professor Samuels will explore how changes in the regional security environment have intersected with changes in domestic Japanese politics to shape Japan’s grand strategic choices.Bio: Richard Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for International Studies. He has been head of the MIT Political Science Department, vice-chair of the committee on Japan of the National Research Council, and chair of the Japan-US Friendship Commission. He has also been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was awarded an imperial decoration, the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star by the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Prime Minister. His study of the political and policy consequences of the 2011 Tohoku catastrophe, 3:11: Disaster and Change in Japan, was published by Cornell University Press in 2013. Samuels' Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia, was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book in international affairs. Machiavelli's Children won the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Jervis-Schroeder Prize from the International History and Politics section of American Political Science Association. Earlier books were awarded prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, the Association of American University Press, and the Ohira Memorial Prize. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, International Security, Political Science Quarterly, International Organization, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, National Interest, Journal of Japanese Studies, and Daedalus. In 2014 he was appointed Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, where he directs a research group on East Asian Security during the summer.Free and open to the public. This event made possible in part by the Brad Richardson Memorial Fund, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center. Mason Hall Rotunda (250 W Woodruff Ave) OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2017-02-17 14:30:00 2017-02-17 16:00:00 IJS Lecture/Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture: Richard Samuels, "Japan’s Grand Strategy and the US-Japan Alliance" The Institute for Japanese Studies presents the Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture with:Richard J. SamuelsFord International Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for International StudiesMassachusetts institute of Technology"Japan’s Grand Strategy and the US-Japan Alliance"Lecture: 2:30 - 4:00 pmReception: 4:00-5:00 pmFlyer: ForthcomingAbstract: For the past 70 years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan’s security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs, China’s rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded strategic review in Tokyo just as they have in Washington. What is the next step for Japan’s security policy? Will confluence with U.S. interests-- and the alliance-- survive intact? Will it be transformed? Or will Japan become more autonomous? Professor Samuels will explore how changes in the regional security environment have intersected with changes in domestic Japanese politics to shape Japan’s grand strategic choices.Bio: Richard Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for International Studies. He has been head of the MIT Political Science Department, vice-chair of the committee on Japan of the National Research Council, and chair of the Japan-US Friendship Commission. He has also been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was awarded an imperial decoration, the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star by the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Prime Minister. His study of the political and policy consequences of the 2011 Tohoku catastrophe, 3:11: Disaster and Change in Japan, was published by Cornell University Press in 2013. Samuels' Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia, was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book in international affairs. Machiavelli's Children won the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Jervis-Schroeder Prize from the International History and Politics section of American Political Science Association. Earlier books were awarded prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, the Association of American University Press, and the Ohira Memorial Prize. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, International Security, Political Science Quarterly, International Organization, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, National Interest, Journal of Japanese Studies, and Daedalus. In 2014 he was appointed Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, where he directs a research group on East Asian Security during the summer.Free and open to the public. This event made possible in part by the Brad Richardson Memorial Fund, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.   Mason Hall Rotunda (250 W Woodruff Ave) Department of East Asian Languages and Literature deall@osu.edu America/New_York public

The Institute for Japanese Studies presents the Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture with:

Richard J. Samuels
Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for International Studies
Massachusetts institute of Technology

"Japan’s Grand Strategy and the US-Japan Alliance"

Lecture: 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Reception: 4:00-5:00 pm

Flyer: Forthcoming

Abstract: For the past 70 years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan’s security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs, China’s rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded strategic review in Tokyo just as they have in Washington. What is the next step for Japan’s security policy? Will confluence with U.S. interests-- and the alliance-- survive intact? Will it be transformed? Or will Japan become more autonomous? Professor Samuels will explore how changes in the regional security environment have intersected with changes in domestic Japanese politics to shape Japan’s grand strategic choices.

Bio: Richard Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for International Studies. He has been head of the MIT Political Science Department, vice-chair of the committee on Japan of the National Research Council, and chair of the Japan-US Friendship Commission. He has also been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was awarded an imperial decoration, the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star by the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Prime Minister. His study of the political and policy consequences of the 2011 Tohoku catastrophe, 3:11: Disaster and Change in Japan, was published by Cornell University Press in 2013. Samuels' Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia, was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book in international affairs. Machiavelli's Children won the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Jervis-Schroeder Prize from the International History and Politics section of American Political Science Association. Earlier books were awarded prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, the Association of American University Press, and the Ohira Memorial Prize. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, International Security, Political Science Quarterly, International Organization, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, National Interest, Journal of Japanese Studies, and Daedalus. In 2014 he was appointed Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, where he directs a research group on East Asian Security during the summer.

Free and open to the public.

This event made possible in part by the Brad Richardson Memorial Fund, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.