Join Professor Guibourg Delamotte for an i nsightful discussion about the growing security partnership between Austral ia and Japan and its implications on global politics.
About the Event:
The Indo-Pacific region\, a term first coined by Japan and adopted by many oth er western nations\, is a site of increasing disruption in an era of accele rating security competition between the United States and an aspirant China . However\, beneath the veil of great power competition there is no shortag e of ‘middle powers’ vying for strategic advantage and mobility in a theatr e characterised by its diversity and complexity. Japan and Australia are in deed traditional allies with the United States\, and both have separate mut ual security partnerships with Washington. Yet\, Canberra and Tokyo have so ught an increasingly closer bilateral bond alongside their partnerships wit h the United States\, which the Australian Government now considers its clo sest and most mature partnership in Asia. With a newly minted reciprocal ac cess agreement between the two nations recently in effect and an expansion of AUKUS also under discussion\, there is clearly a mutual appetite in the corridors of power for deepening the security relationship even further.
This talk will take a keen view to the AUKUS security partnership betwe en Australia\, the United States\, and the United Kingdom\, and what possib ilities and constraints exist for Japan in joining an expanded AUKUS. The d iscussion takes on added relevance in the context of an expanding US-China rivalry\, where middle powers are beginning to exercise more strategic auto nomy\, whilst at the same time courting continued American support in the r egion.
About the Speaker:
A French and Austra lian dual citizen\, Guibourg Delamotte works on Security i ssues in the Indo-Pacific\, Japan's foreign and security policies\, and Jap anese domestic politics. A tenured Professor of Political Science at the Ja panese studies department of the French Institute of Oriental Studies (Inal co)\, which she heads\, she is a Research Fellow with the French Research I nstitute on East Asia (Ifrae\, UMR8043). She is also Visiting Senior Resear ch 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 In alco\, she defended her Doctorate in Political studies at the Paris School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and her Habilitation to supervi se doctoral students at Sciences Po Paris. Her most recent single-authored books are: Le Japon\, un leader discret (Eyrolles\, 2023)\, La Démocratie a u 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.
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