As part of a continuing collaboration between Keio University’s Center for Strategy, the Centre for Geopolitics, and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES)’s Japan Section, we will be holding a seminar to explore the nature of bilateral cooperation between the United Kingdom and Japan. Our panelists will be considering the strategic challenges in the Indo-Pacific, Europe, and globally, the nature of alliance cooperation, and the future of the rules-based international order in the wake of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States.
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Opening Remarks:
His Excellency Mr Hiroshi Suzuki – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Panel Discussion:
- Professor Yuichi Hosoya – Keio University Tokyo, Director, Keio Center for Strategy (KCS)
- Dr Giulia Garbagni – Department of War Studies, King’s College London (KCL)
- Professor Satoru Mori – Faculty of Law, Keio University, Director, Keio University Center for Strategy (KCS)
- Professor Michito Tsuruoka – Associate Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Keio University Deputy Director, Keio Center for Strategy (KCS)
- Professor Brendan Simms – Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge
- Professor Michael Cox – Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics
Chair:
Dr John Nilsson-Wright – Associate Professor at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), University of Cambridge
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More about the speakers:
His Excellency Mr Hiroshi Suzuki is the newly appointed Ambassador of Japan to the UK since November 2024, having served as Ambassador of Japan to India and the Kingdom of Bhutan. Previously, he served the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as his Private Secretary for 7 years and 7 months, Senior Deputy Foreign Minister, and G7・G20 Sherpa. He entered the Japanese Foreign Service in 1985, and served in Washington DC, Rome, Tehran, Kabul, Seoul, London and Delhi. This is his second posting in London. He graduated from University of Tokyo (BA in law, 1985) and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (MA, 1988).
Professor Yuichi Hosoya Ph.D. is professor of international politics at Keio University, Tokyo, and Director, Keio Center for Strategy. Professor Hosoya is also the Director of Research at the Asia-Pacific Initiative (API), Tokyo. Professor Hosoya was a member of Prime Minister’s Advisory Panel on Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for Security (2013-14), and Prime Minister’s Advisory Panel on National Security and Defense Capabilities (2013). Professor Hosoya studied international politics at Rikkyo (BA), Birmingham (MIS), and Keio (Ph.D.). He was a visiting professor and Japan Chair (2009–2010) at Sciences-Po in Paris (Institut d’Études Politiques), a visiting fellow (Fulbright Fellow, 2008–2009) at Princeton University and Visiting Fellow at Downing College, the University of Cambridge (2021-2022). His research interests include the postwar international history, British diplomatic history, Japanese foreign and security policy.
Dr Giulia Garbagni is a diplomatic historian of modern Japan. She is a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, which she joined after completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2023. She has previously held research fellowships at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress; the University of Tokyo; and Sogang University in Seoul. Giulia is currently working on a book manuscript on the role of special envoys in postwar Japanese diplomacy.
Professor Satoru Mori is the professor of contemporary international politics at the Faculty of Law, and the deputy director of the Keio Center for Strategy at Keio University. Professor Mori is currently undertaking research on U.S. strategy in Asia, U.S. defense innovation and its implications for U.S. allies, and the history of U.S. defense strategy during the Cold War. He is a former Japanese Foreign Ministry official and holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo, LL.M. degrees from Columbia University Law School and Kyoto University, and a LL.B. degree from Kyoto University. He was a professor at Hosei University’s Department of Global Politics from 2010 to 2022. During his sabbatical leave, he was a visiting researcher at Princeton University (2014-2015) and George Washington University (2013-2015). Professor Mori currently chairs the Japan-US alliance project at the Nakasone Peace Institute, and the security policy project at the Japan Institute for International Affairs. He is a senior fellow at the Nakasone Peace Institute since 2018. He was a senior fellow of the National Security Secretariat of the Cabinet Secretariat of the Japanese government (2016-2019). He is a member of the Ministry of Defense’s New Defense Policy Roundtable. He was among the experts called upon by the National Security Secretariat during the hearings in 2022 on the revision of Japan’s strategic documents.
Professor Michito Tsuruoka Studied politics and international relations at Keio University, Georgetown University and received a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London. His areas of expertise include international security and contemporary European politics. Dr Tsuruoka served as an advisor for NATO at the Embassy of Japan in Belgium from 2005 to 2008 and as a Resident Fellow the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in 2009. Prior to joining Keio, he was at the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Ministry of Defense as a Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow from 2009 to 2017. While at NIDS, he served as a Deputy Director of the International Policy Division, Bureau of Defense Policy, Ministry of Defense (2012-13) in charge of multilateral security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, and a Visiting Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) (2013-14). From March 2023 to March 2024, Dr Tsuruoka was on sabbatical as a Visiting Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at The Australian National University (ANU).
Professor Brendan Simms teaches at both undergraduate and graduate level in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). His MPhil courses on the History of European Geopolitics use scenarios as part of the teaching and learning process. Professor Simms is a frequent contributor to print and broadsheet media. He has advised governments and parliaments, and spoken at Westminster, in the European Parliament (Brussels) and at think-tanks in the United Kingdom, the United States and in many Eurozone countries. Brendan Simms is the also founder and Director of the Centre for Geopolitics.
Professor Michael Cox Before being appointed to a Chair in International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2002, Professor Cox taught for seven years at the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, and between 1972 and 1995 at The Queen’s University of Belfast. One of the founding Directors of LSE’s foreign policy think tank – LSE IDEAS - he is also an associate Fellow in the US and Americas Programme at Chatham House, London, a member of the Scholarly Advisory Board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History in New York, and a visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Milan. The author, editor and co-editor of many books, his most recent work includes a collection of his own essays, The Post-Cold War World (2018), a new centennial edition of J. M.Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace (2019), a reissued edition of E.H. Carr’s 1945 classic Nationalism and After (2021), as well as Agonies of Empire: American Power from Clinton to Biden (2023) and two books with LSE Press: Afghanistan: Long War: Forgotten Peace (2022) and Ukraine: Russia’s War and the Future of Global Order (2023) His next book (co-edited) Chatham House: the First 100 Years, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2025.
More about the chair:
Dr John Nilsson-Wright is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES) at the University of Cambridge and an Official Fellow at Darwin College. He was Head of the Chatham House Asia Programme from March 2014 to October 2016 and has also been the Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia and Korea Foundation Fellow with Chatham House’s Asia-Pacific Programme. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Sejong Institute in Seoul, ROK; Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Korea Centre, East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS); and a non-resident fellow at the Centre for North Korean Studies at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on Cold War history including US-Japan alliance ties, and the contemporary international relations and politics of Northeast Asia, with reference to Japan and the Koreas. In his policy work, he focuses on regional security and the changing nature of alliance relations in East Asia.
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| Dr John Nilsson-Wright: jhs22@cam.ac.uk |