"Free and Open Indo-Pacific" and Japan
Sesión académica a cargo del profesor Kei Koga y la profesora Shino Watanabe (en inglés)
Presentación y palabras introductorias a cargo del Embajador Eduardo Sadous, Director del Comité de Asuntos Asiáticos
Kei Koga Assistant Professor at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). His research focuses on IR theory, International Security, International Institutions, and East Asian security, including transformation of U.S.-bilateral security networks and ASEAN–led institutions. Previously, he was visiting fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in 2017; a Japan-U.S. Partnership Fellow at the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS), Tokyo, in 2012-2014; Postdoctoral Fellow in the International Studies Program, The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, in 2012-2013; a Vasey Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS in 2009–2010; and RSIS-MacArthur visiting associate fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), NTU in 2010. He has published on topics that include East Asian security, U.S. and Japanese foreign policies, the U.S.-Japan alliance, and ASEAN. His recent publication includes a book "Reinventing Regional Security Institutions in Asia and Africa" (Routledge 2017); "The Concept of "Hedging" Revisited: The Case of Japan's Foreign Policy Strategy in East Asia's Power Shift" (International Studies Review (ISA), 2017); "Japan’s strategic interests in the South China Sea: beyond the horizon?" (Australian Journal of International Affairs 72(1), 2018); and "ASEAN’s Evolving Institutional Strategy: Managing Great Power Politics in South China Sea Disputes" (Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2018). His current book project is "Managing Great Power Politics: ASEAN, Institutional Strategy, and South China Sea." He received his Ph.D. in International Relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Shino Watanabe Professor at the Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, she received her M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, Tufts University and earned her Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia in the United States. She also studied at School of International Studies, Peking University in China. She served as RIPS (Research Institute for Peace and Security)-CGP (Center for Global Partnership) Security Studies Fellow of the Japan Foundation (2004-2006) and Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), Tokyo (2008-2010), Associate Professor at Saitama University in Saitama, Japan (2010-2014), and Associate Professor at Sophia University (2014-2017)
