Australia – Japan: Middle Power Strategies in a Contested Indo-Pacific

 

 

Date: October 25th (Fri)
Time: 5:30 PM – 7 PM (PDT)
Location: UBC C.K. Choi Building Room 120
Speaker: Guibourg Delamotte (INALCO, Sciences Po)

 

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Join Professor Guibourg Delamotte (INALCO, Sciences Po) for an insightful discussion into the growing security partnership between Australia and Japan. This will take a keen view to the AUKUS security partnership between Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and what possibilities and constraints exist for Japan in joining an expanded AUKUS. The discussion takes on added relevance in the context of an expanding US-China rivalry, where middle powers are beginning to exercise more strategic autonomy, whilst at the same time courting continued American support in the region.

Speaker bio:
A French and Australian dual citizen, Guibourg Delamotte works on Security issues in the Indo-Pacific, Japan’s foreign and security policies, and Japanese domestic politics. A tenured Professor of Political Science at the Japanese studies department of the French Institute of Oriental Studies (Inalco), which she heads, she is a Research Fellow with the French Research Institute on East Asia (Ifrae, UMR8043). She is also Visiting Senior Research Fellow of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST, University of Tokyo). She teaches at Inalco and Sciences Po. A graduate from the Universities of Oxford, Panthéon-Assas, Sciences Po Paris and Inalco, she defended her Doctorate in Political studies at the Paris School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and her Habilitation to supervise doctoral students at Sciences Po Paris. Her most recent single-authored books are: Le Japon, un leader discret (Eyrolles, 2023), La Démocratie au Japon, singulière et universelle (ENS Ed., 2022). She recently coedited: Géopolitique et géoéconomie du monde contemporain. Conflits et puissances, La Découverte, 2024; The Abe Legacy. How Japan has been shaped by Abe Shinzô, Lexington, 2021.