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Short Bios
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Program
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| December 4 (Thursday) Day 1 |
| 9:50-10:00 (GMT+9) |
Opening Remarks |
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| 10:00-12:00 (GMT+9) |
Session 1. Great Power Competition: Theory and Current Situation |
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1. Hanna Samir Kassab (East Carolina University) [online]
“Weak States and Spheres of Great Power Competition: Sub-Saharan Africa”
2. Naoko Eto (Gakushuin University)
“China’s International Strategy in Search of a Winning Path”
3. Seiko Mimaki (Doshisha University) [online]
“Trump 2.0 and the End of the Postwar World”
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| Discussant: |
Hirotaka Watanabe (Teikyo University)
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| Chair: |
Michitaka Hattori (SRC)
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| 13:30-15:30 (GMT+9) |
Session 2. The Agency and Strategies of Middle and Small Powers |
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1. Kei Koga (Nanyang Technological University)
“Rise and Fall of Minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific”
2. Miras Zhiyenbayev (Maqsut Narikbayev University)
“Middle Powers’ Agency in the Fracturing World Order”
3. Tomohiko Uyama (SRC)
“Middle and Small Powers and the Paradox of Decolonization in the Post-Soviet Space”
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| Discussant: |
Mie Oba (Kanagawa University)
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| Chair: |
Mirlan Bektursunov (National Institutes for the Humanities / SRC)
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| 15:45-17:45 (GMT+9) |
Session 3. Structural and Qualitative Changes in International Relations |
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1. Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
“Does the Concept of Middle Powers Make Sense in a World of Strongmen?”
2. Selbi Durdiyeva (Nottingham Trent University)
“Decolonising International Relations in Light of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Lessons (Un)Learnt”
3. Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen)
“Contested Peacetiming in Ukraine”
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| Discussant: |
Yuichi Hosoya (Keio University) |
| Chair: |
Akihiro Iwashita (SRC) |
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| December 5 (Friday) Day 2 |
| 10:00-12:00 (GMT+9) |
Session 4. Conflicting Strategies of Great and Middle Powers before and during World War II |
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1. Fumio Kumamoto (Komazawa University)
“Breaking Away from International Cooperationism: Shigemitsu Mamoru’s Promotion of ‘East Asian Monroe Doctrine,’ 1935”
2. Marek Kornat (Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences)
“Poland and the Idea of Grand Alliance against Nazi Germany in 1939”
3. Tomoyuki Hanada (National Institute for Defense Studies)
“The Soviet Far Eastern Strategy and International Order during World War II”
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| Discussant: |
Nobuo Tajima (Seijo University) |
| Chair: |
David Wolff (SRC) |
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| 13:30-15:30 (GMT+9) |
Session 5. Russian Neo-Imperialism and the Reactions It Evokes |
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1. Alicja Curanović (University of Warsaw)
“The Justice Narrative in Great Power Competition: Russian Messianism Revisited”
2. Hiromi Komori (Waseda University)
“Resistance to Covert and Overt ‘Imperialism’: The Case of Estonia”
3. Mitsuharu Akao (National Museum of Ethnology)
“Anti-Russian Policies in Latvia during Wartime and Their Impact on Russian-Speaking Residents”
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| Discussant: |
Yoko Hirose (Keio University) |
| Chair: |
Yoko Aoshima (SRC) |
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| 15:45-17:45 (GMT+9) |
Session 6. India and Turkey Seek Great Power Status |
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1. Kazuya Nakamizo (Kyoto University)
“‘Make India Great Again’: Hinduization of India’s Foreign Policy”
2. Hakan Yavuz (University of Utah)
“Neo-Ottomanism as Great Power Nationalism: Turkey’s Quest for Autonomy in a Hierarchical Order”
3. Fumiko Sawae (Sophia University)
“Hierarchy and Turkey’s Revisionist Power Strategy as a Manifestation of a Simultaneously (Post)Imperial and Postcolonial Positioning”
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| Discussant: |
Chiharu Takenaka (Rikkyo University) |
| Chair: |
Manabu Sengoku (SRC) |
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